Yuichiro Marui | Searcharxiv

arXiv2025

Uncovering influence of football players' behaviour on team performance in ball possession through dynamical modelling

A quest for uncovering influence of behaviour on team performance involves understanding individual behaviour, interactions with others and environment, variations across groups, and effects of interventions. Although insights into each of these areas have accumulated in sports science literature on football, it remains unclear how one can enhance team performance. We analyse influence of football players' behaviour on team performance in three-versus-one ball possession game by constructing and analysing a dynamical model. We developed a model for the motion of the players and the ball, which mathematically represented our hypotheses on players' behaviour and interactions. The model's plausibility was examined by comparing simulated outcomes with our experimental result. Possible influences of interventions were analysed through sensitivity analysis, where causal effects of several aspects of behaviour such as pass speed and accuracy were found. Our research highlights the potential of dynamical modelling for uncovering influence of behaviour on team effectiveness.

physics.soc-ph↗

arXiv2023

Synchronization and its slow decay in noisy oscillators with simplicial interactions

Previous studies on oscillator populations with two-simplex interaction have reported novel phenomena such as discontinuous desynchronization transitions and multistability of synchronized states. However, the noise effect is not well understood. Here, we study a higher-order network of noisy oscillators with generic interactions consisting of one-simplex and two types of two-simplex interactions. We observe that when a type of two-simplex interaction is dominant, synchrony is eroded and eventually disappears even for infinitesimally weak noise. Nevertheless, synchronized states may persist for extended periods, with the lifetime increasing approximately exponentially with the strength of the two-simplex interaction. When one-simplex or another type of two-simplex interaction is sufficiently strong, noise erosion is prevented, and synchronized states become persistent. A weakly nonlinear analysis reveals that as one-simplex coupling increases, the synchronized state appears supercritically or subscritically, depending on the interaction strength. Furthermore, assuming weak noise and using Kramers' rate theory, we derive a closed dynamical equation for the Kuramoto order parameter, from which the time scale of the erosion process is derived. Our study elucidates the synchronization and desynchronization of oscillator assemblies in higher-order networks and is expected to provide insights into such systems' design and control principles.

nlin.AO↗