Free kick goals in football: an unlikely success between failure and embarrassment

Sørensen, Søren Nørgaard; Rasmussen, John

doi:10.1007/s12283-017-0257-7

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“…The validity of the statistical approach for the case at hand can be debated. An alternative method could be the optimization of serve quality as a function of the free parameters, similar to the approach by Sørensen and Rasmussen [12] for association football. If successful, such an approach would determine the best serve for each of the two conditions, and they could subsequently be compared.…”

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A Simulation of the Effects of Badminton Serve Release Height

Rasmussen

Zee

2021

Applied Sciences

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In this work, we develop and calibrate a model to represent the trajectory of a badminton shuttlecock and use it to investigate the influence of serve height in view of a new serve rule instated by the Badminton World Federation. The new rule means that all players must launch the shuttlecock below a height of 1.15 m, as opposed to the old rule whereby the required launch height was under the rib cage of the server. The model is based on a forward dynamics model of ballistic trajectory with drag, and it is calibrated with experimental data. The experiments also served to determine the actual influence of the new rule on the shuttlecock launch position. The model is used in a Monte Carlo simulation to determine the statistical influence of the new serve rules on the player’s ability to perform good serves; i.e., serves with little opportunity for the receiver to attack. We conclude that, for the female player in question, serving below a height of 1.15 m makes it marginally more difficult to perform excellent serves. We also conclude that there might be alternative launch positions that would be less likely to produce the best serves but could be exploited as a tactical option.

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Section: Monte Carlo Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%