Book chapter
Round and Round and Up and Down We Go Again: Using Causal Loop Diagrams to Model Football Club Performance
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport: Applications and Future Directions, pp.255-268
CRC Press
2021
Abstract
There is increasing interest in the use of complex systems thinking and associated methods to understand sports performance. This chapter describes a study in which one such approach, causal loop diagrams, was used to develop a proof-of-concept complex systems model of football club performance. The causal loop diagram was developed using a group model building process involving football and systems thinking researchers and a subject matter expert. The resulting model suggests that there are multiple interacting variables that influence football club performance. These include variables related to players (e.g. skill, fitness level, personal lives), coaches and support staff (e.g. skill, experience), coaching and training programs, the club (e.g. finances, transfers, marketing, culture, academy), sponsors, other clubs, and supporters to name only a few. The model suggests that even the most successful clubs will experience periods of success followed by less successful periods based on opposition teams adapting and optimising their own practices and limits to success including player fatigue, injuries and contentment. In closing, we discuss potential future applications as well as follow on studies involving the use of computational modelling to simulate the performance of sports clubs over time.
Details
- Title
- Round and Round and Up and Down We Go Again: Using Causal Loop Diagrams to Model Football Club Performance
- Authors
- Paul Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsScott McLean (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsKarl Dodd (Author)Nicholas Stevens (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems
- Contributors
- Paul Salmon (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsScott McLean (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsClare Dallat (Editor) - Outdoor Education GroupNeil Mansfield (Editor) - Nottingham Trent UniversityColin Solomon (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Sport Sciences - LegacyAdam Hulme (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems
- Publication details
- Human Factors and Ergonomics in Sport: Applications and Future Directions, pp.255-268
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- DOI
- 10.1201/9781351060073-19; 10.1201/9781351060073
- ISBN
- 9781351060073
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science; School of Law and Society; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99479307802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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