Complex Sport Analytics

Felix Lebed is Senior Lecturer and Head of the M.Ed. degree program in the Physical Education Department at Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel. His deep knowledge of sport games is based on personal experience as a handball and volleyball player and coach, as well as more than 30 years’ experience as an interdisciplinary scholar and lecturer. Dr Lebed also served as the Senior Supervisor of the Soviet national handball teams’ Olympic preparation. In addition to his diverse academic activities, he now provides services to sport organizations and elite teams as a strategic analyst and consultant

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Preamble to Sport Analytics

1. Basic Categories of Analytics

2. General Review of Contemporary Sport Analytics

Part II: Basic Principles of Complex Sport Analytics

3. Expressions of a "Complex" in Sport Analytics

4. Decision Making in Game Playing and Managing as a Problem of a "Complex"

5. Complexity Approach to Games Playing and Managing

Part III: LCR Concept and Its Application in Complex Sport Analytics

6. General Concept of Complex Analytics in Individual and Team Games

7. Bodily Systems of Playing Individual Through a LCR-concept in Complex Sport Analytics

8. Playing Athlete Through an LCR-concept in Complex Sport Analytics

9. Athletes, Coaches and Managers as Interacting Teams Through an LCR-concept in Complex Sport Analytics: The Complex Analytics Approach