Meso level of analysis: Subgroups in Teams

Abstract

In team sports the teammates cooperates with interdependency between them. One of the examples it is the forward player that depend from the backward players to receive the ball. For that reason, it is important to understand how teammates cooperate and autonomous or dependent are a specific player. Moreover, using such idea will be also possible to identify some clusters and patterns of interactions inside the team. For that reason, the aim of this chapter is to present the network measurements that allows to perform a meso-analysis and identify the specific interactions between teammates.