A machine learning approach for the classification of sports based on a coaches' perspective of environmental, individual and task requirements: A sports profile analysis.

Well-designed talent programmes in sports with a focus on talent identification, orientation, development, and transfer support the engagement of young individuals and the pursuit of elite performance. To facilitate these processes, an analysis of task, environmental and individual characteristics p...

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Publicado en:Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 23 - 33
Autores principales: Teunissen, Jan Willem, Faber, Irene R., De Bock, Jelle, Slembrouck, Maarten, Verstockt, Steven, Lenoir, Matthieu, Pion, Johan
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2025
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          Teunissen, Jan Willem
          Faber, Irene R.
          De Bock, Jelle
          Slembrouck, Maarten
          Verstockt, Steven
          Lenoir, Matthieu
          Pion, Johan
        affil: Institute for Studies in Sports and Exercise, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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          Athletic Performance
          Machine Learning
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Coaches, Athletic
          Athletes In Adolescence
          Talent Identification, Sports Classification
          Skill Acquisition
          Human
          Aptitude
          Sports Classification
          Surveys
          Discriminant Analysis
          Machine Learning Algorithms Evaluation
          Adolescence
          Environment
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: Well-designed talent programmes in sports with a focus on talent identification, orientation, development, and transfer support the engagement of young individuals and the pursuit of elite performance. To facilitate these processes, an analysis of task, environmental and individual characteristics per sport is much needed. The aims of this study were to 1) analyse whether unique profiles per sport could be established by generic characteristics and 2) to discuss similarities and differences for the potential application in talent development and transfer. By means of a validated survey, 1247 coaches from 34 sports ranked 18 characteristics on importance to their sports (0 = not important − 10 = very important). To discriminate the responses per sport a Discriminant Analysis (DA) was carried out. To refine the DA-classification, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) with CatBoost classifier was performed. To test the performance of the CatBoost classifier-algorithm, a confusion-matrix was generated. The cross-validated DA showed that 70.2% of the coaches were correctly classified to their sport. The UMAP/CatBoost technique revealed 75.1% accuracy with correctly predicted responses per sport ranging from 18.2% (sailing) to 98.2% (soccer). With varying precision, the algorithm was able to differentiate sports by importance of its characteristics indicating similarities and differences per sport.
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