24  Guest Lecture (5.1)

This will be an invited talk by a visiting speaker, Scott Breddy.

Scott is a sports scientist and Strength & Conditioning coach with extensive experience at Celtic FC, helping to guide players from the Academy to the First Team during a period of remarkable success for the club.

His interests include the use of Technology within the S&C environment and also the use of accelerometers in GPS technology, which he explored during his master’s degree completed in 2017.

Currently, Scott is pursuing a PGDE in Physical Education at Strathclyde University, as he shifts his focus towards a career in teaching.

24.1 Reading

Before or after this talk, you should access and review the following papers:

• P. Rajesh, Bharadwaj, M. Alam, and M. Tahernezhadi, “A Data Science Approach to Football Team Player Selection,” in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), Chicago, IL, USA: IEEE, Jul. 2020, pp. 175–183.[1]

• R. Al-Shboul, T. Syed, J. Memon, and F. Khan, “Automated player selection for a sports team using competitive neural networks,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 8, no. 8, 2017.[2]

There are direct links to these papers via the library reading list.

[1]

P. Rajesh, Bharadwaj, M. Alam, and M. Tahernezhadi, “A Data Science Approach to Football Team Player Selection,” in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), Chicago, IL, USA: IEEE, Jul. 2020, pp. 175–183. doi: 10.1109/EIT48999.2020.9208331.

[2]

R. Al-Shboul, T. Syed, J. Memon, and F. Khan, “Automated player selection for a sports team using competitive neural networks,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 8, no. 8, 2017.