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Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation
In order to adaptively solve complex problems or make difficult decisions, people must strategically combine personal information acquired directly from experience (individual learning) and social information acquired from others (social learning). The game of football (soccer) provides extensive re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.27 |
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description | In order to adaptively solve complex problems or make difficult decisions, people must strategically combine personal information acquired directly from experience (individual learning) and social information acquired from others (social learning). The game of football (soccer) provides extensive real world data with which to quantify this strategic information use. I analyse a 5-year dataset of all games (n = 9127, 2012–2017) in five top European leagues to quantify the extent to which a manager's initial formation is guided by their personal past use or success with that formation, or other managers’ use or success with that formation. I focus on the 4231 formation, the dominant formation during this period. As predicted, a manager's choice of whether to use 4231 is influenced by both their recent use of 4231 (personal information) and the use of 4231 in the entire population of managers in that division (social information). Against expectations, managers relied more on personal than social information, although this estimate was highly variable across managers and divisions. Finally, there did not appear to be an adaptive tradeoff between social and personal information use, with the relative reliance on each failing to predict managerial success. |
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spelling | pubmed-104274342023-08-16 Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation Mesoudi, Alex Evol Hum Sci Research Article In order to adaptively solve complex problems or make difficult decisions, people must strategically combine personal information acquired directly from experience (individual learning) and social information acquired from others (social learning). The game of football (soccer) provides extensive real world data with which to quantify this strategic information use. I analyse a 5-year dataset of all games (n = 9127, 2012–2017) in five top European leagues to quantify the extent to which a manager's initial formation is guided by their personal past use or success with that formation, or other managers’ use or success with that formation. I focus on the 4231 formation, the dominant formation during this period. As predicted, a manager's choice of whether to use 4231 is influenced by both their recent use of 4231 (personal information) and the use of 4231 in the entire population of managers in that division (social information). Against expectations, managers relied more on personal than social information, although this estimate was highly variable across managers and divisions. Finally, there did not appear to be an adaptive tradeoff between social and personal information use, with the relative reliance on each failing to predict managerial success. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10427434/ /pubmed/37588343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.27 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mesoudi, Alex Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
title | Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
title_full | Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
title_fullStr | Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
title_short | Cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
title_sort | cultural evolution of football tactics: strategic social learning in managers’ choice of formation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.27 |
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