This post discusses our new open access research article on data analytics practices and reporting strategies in football worldwide.

This article explores which sports science measures matter most in football (soccer).

This excerpt is taken from the VALD eBook 'Practitioner's Guide to Preseason', which covers the fundamentals of planning preseason.

This post delves into the benefits of incorporating heart rate technology and what this can look like in applied sports science.

Sports Scientist Ashmeet Anand demonstrates how interactive data viz, built using Tableau, enhances insights from sports science data.

Here we introduce our new publication in IJSPP: Predicting Soccer Players’ Fitness Status Through a Machine-Learning Approach

Our new publication Monitoring Readiness to Train and Perform in Female Football: Current Evidence and Recommendations for Practitioners

This blog post discusses the importance of proactive training load management in times of fixture congestion in professional team sports.

Here we discuss the Premier League Festive football calendar and consider the recovery and travel demands for each club.

This post explores the use of the minimum effort duration in GPS technology to define high-speed, acceleration and deceleration efforts.

With the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup in Qatar over, we discuss how Premier League sports science staff can reintegrate their players.

Sports scientists want to unpack the black box in sports technology but how can this work with artificial intelligence (AI) data science?

Jo recently joined the Leave Your Mark podcast to reflect on her sports science career, working abroad, becoming a consultant, and more.

Why context is key in sports science data, and therefore any AI system too. But we should beware when our so-called context becomes bias.

I'm excited to share a new review: Tracking Systems in Team Sports: A Narrative Review of Applications of the Data &Sport Specific Analysis

Measures of distance and "PlayerLoad" demonstrated good reliability on a group level across trials of standardised football training games

I recently had the privilege of being invited onto the Pacey Performance Podcast. Among many topics, Rob and I discussed the benefits of...

I am pleased to share this new publication in Frontiers led by Amber Rowell. Using the training environment as a testing setting is an...

Five years on since we lost performance pioneer Nick Broad, Simon Austin at Training Ground Guru has shared two articles in tribute to him.

Last month we explored the evidence base supporting the notion that athlete availability reduces your team’s chance of success. That post...