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Muscular Activity In Collegiate Football Linemen With And Without A Prefabricated Functional Knee Brace, Shea Gembol
Muscular Activity In Collegiate Football Linemen With And Without A Prefabricated Functional Knee Brace, Shea Gembol
Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Functional knee braces are commonly used in the athletic realm in an attempt to prevent initial and reoccurring injuries. The purpose of this study is to evaluate muscular activity in collegiate football linemen during sport specific skills (three point stance, lateral cutting maneuver, and drop jump). Ground Reaction force (GRF) and muscular activity of the quadriceps and hamstrings was analyzed to determine the impact of wearing a knee brace. Results showed no differences in the GRF or muscular activity of the quadriceps during any of the skills. The hamstring showed increased activity drop jump only. In conclusion, functional knee braces …
Analyzing The Seahawks' Offensive Play-Calling, Adam Brand
Analyzing The Seahawks' Offensive Play-Calling, Adam Brand
Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Analytics has become a valuable tool in sports. Movies like Moneyball have even popularized the mathematical methods that sports teams are now using to try to gain an advantage over their opponents. Sports analysts are also using analytics to attempt to predict outcomes in sports. Since offensive plays in football offer clearly-defined, short term events (plays), offensive play-calling in football is the perfect opportunity to analyze how a team calls plays and how those plays affect performance. My project will attempt to analyze all of the Seahawks’ 2013 regular season offensive plays by fitting specific play events to probability distributions …