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. 2018 Oct 8:9:1900.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01900. eCollection 2018.

Using Network Science to Analyse Football Passing Networks: Dynamics, Space, Time, and the Multilayer Nature of the Game

Javier M Buldú  1   2   3 , Javier Busquets  4 , Johann H Martínez  3   5 , José L Herrera-Diestra  6 , Ignacio Echegoyen  1   2   3 , Javier Galeano  7 , Jordi Luque  8
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Using Network Science to Analyse Football Passing Networks: Dynamics, Space, Time, and the Multilayer Nature of the Game

Javier M Buldú et al. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: complexity; entropy; multilayer networks; network science; passing networks; soccer.

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Figure 1
Construction of a passing network. In this example, passes from the match Real Madrid –Barcelona of the Spanish national league “La Liga”, season 2017/2018. In the upper row, initial position of all passes made by Barcelona (A) and Real Madrid (B). In the bottom row, Barcelona (C) and Real Madrid (D) passing networks, where link widths are proportional to the number of passes between players, whose position in the network is given by the average position of all their passes. Datasets were provided by Opta and are accessible through the Supplementary Information.
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