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Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games
The sport of football is played between two teams of eleven players each using a spherical ball. Each team strives to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal as the result of skillful interactions among players. Football can be regarded from the network perspective as a competitive relation...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3247158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029638 |
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description | The sport of football is played between two teams of eleven players each using a spherical ball. Each team strives to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal as the result of skillful interactions among players. Football can be regarded from the network perspective as a competitive relationship between two cooperative networks with a dynamic network topology and dynamic network node. Many complex large-scale networks have been shown to have topological properties in common, based on a small-world network and scale-free network models. However, the human dynamic movement pattern of this network has never been investigated in a real-world setting. Here, we show that the power law in degree distribution emerged in the passing behavior in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final and an international “A” match in Japan, by describing players as vertices connected by links representing passes. The exponent values [Image: see text] are similar to the typical values that occur in many real-world networks, which are in the range of [Image: see text], and are larger than that of a gene transcription network, [Image: see text]. Furthermore, we reveal the stochastically switched dynamics of the hub player throughout the game as a unique feature in football games. It suggests that this feature could result not only in securing vulnerability against intentional attack, but also in a power law for self-organization. Our results suggest common and unique network dynamics of two competitive networks, compared with the large-scale networks that have previously been investigated in numerous works. Our findings may lead to improved resilience and survivability not only in biological networks, but also in communication networks. |
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spelling | pubmed-32471582012-01-03 Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games Yamamoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Keiko PLoS One Research Article The sport of football is played between two teams of eleven players each using a spherical ball. Each team strives to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal as the result of skillful interactions among players. Football can be regarded from the network perspective as a competitive relationship between two cooperative networks with a dynamic network topology and dynamic network node. Many complex large-scale networks have been shown to have topological properties in common, based on a small-world network and scale-free network models. However, the human dynamic movement pattern of this network has never been investigated in a real-world setting. Here, we show that the power law in degree distribution emerged in the passing behavior in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final and an international “A” match in Japan, by describing players as vertices connected by links representing passes. The exponent values [Image: see text] are similar to the typical values that occur in many real-world networks, which are in the range of [Image: see text], and are larger than that of a gene transcription network, [Image: see text]. Furthermore, we reveal the stochastically switched dynamics of the hub player throughout the game as a unique feature in football games. It suggests that this feature could result not only in securing vulnerability against intentional attack, but also in a power law for self-organization. Our results suggest common and unique network dynamics of two competitive networks, compared with the large-scale networks that have previously been investigated in numerous works. Our findings may lead to improved resilience and survivability not only in biological networks, but also in communication networks. Public Library of Science 2011-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3247158/ /pubmed/22216336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029638 Text en Yamamoto, Yokoyama. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yamamoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Keiko Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games |
title | Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games |
title_full | Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games |
title_fullStr | Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games |
title_full_unstemmed | Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games |
title_short | Common and Unique Network Dynamics in Football Games |
title_sort | common and unique network dynamics in football games |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3247158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029638 |
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