Modelling within-team relative phase couplings using position derivatives in Australian rules football

Figures & data

Figure 1. Phase portraits for (a) acceleration and (b) angular velocity.

Figure 2. Mean relative phase standard deviations for acceleration (a) and angular velocity (b) by mean Euclidian pairwise distance.

Figure 3. Angular velocity and acceleration relative phase standard deviations by cluster for intra-team couplings. Labels for player role are included for members of the LCP cluster (8) and the HCP cluster (1).

Figure 4. Angular velocity and acceleration relative phase standard deviations by cluster for inter-team couplings. Labels for player role are included for members of the LCP cluster (6) and the HCP cluster (4).

Table 1. Mean acceleration and angular velocity cluster standard deviations for intra- and inter-team clusters.

	Intra-team clusters		Inter-team clusters
Cluster ID	Acceleration SD	Angular velocity SD	Acceleration SD	Angular velocity SD
1^a	28.84	25.92	33.04	27.57
2	29.59	26.54	30.17	25.43
3	31.58	27.11	32.63	26.94
4^c	30.45	25.82	29.13	25.20
5	31.17	26.00	30.59	26.30
6^d	30.65	26.52	34.92	28.33
7	33.54	27.54	31.81	26.64
8^b	34.61	28.24	30.53	26.89
9	32.80	27.29	33.53	28.26
10	32.16	26.68	31.32	27.13
11	29.71	25.72	30.97	25.78
12	31.18	26.66	34.20	27.54
13	30.18	26.39	31.19	26.56
14	33.26	28.11	29.89	26.22
15	32.69	27.77	32.17	27.65

SD: Standard Deviation.

^aHigh-coordination pairs for intra-team clusters.

^bLow-coordination pairs for intra-team clusters.

^bLow-coordination pairs for intra-team clusters.

^cHigh-coordination pairs for inter-team clusters.

^dLow-coordination pairs for inter-team clusters.

Figure 5. Relative phase standard deviation box plots for acceleration (a) and angular velocity (b) by game quarter.

Figure 6. Exemplar angular displacement, angular velocity and relative phase for a LCP player coupling (solid = B25, dashed = F48).

Figure 7. Exemplar angular displacement, angular velocity and relative phase for a HCP player coupling (solid = M31, dashed = F57).

Figure 8. Exemplar velocity, acceleration and relative phase for a LCP player coupling (solid = B25, dashed = F48).

Figure 9. Exemplar velocity, acceleration and relative phase for a HCP player coupling (solid = M31, dashed = F57).