Introduction

Abstract

Team sports games depend from the cooperation/interaction between teammates to avoid the opponent’s strengths and exploit the opponent’s weaknesses. The interaction between opposite players may also be considered in the specific field of team sports. Therefore, based on this dynamics that occurs in match it is possible to consider team sports as a cooperation-opposition game that depends from the interactions. To analyze this specific dynamics of connections it is possible to use techniques and methods based on social network analysis. Thus, the aim of this book is provide to the readers a summary of social network measures that can be applied to team sports and used to extract important information for match analysis interpretation.