Some Belgian researchers have looked at how (Everton) footballers respond to mental pressure during the season - https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/conte...otball-players-perform-under-immense-pressure
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So we have won games, drawn games and lost games in each of their 'pressure' categories 
What is this supposed to prove? Am I missing something here?
What is this supposed to prove? Am I missing something here?
Frang
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I need @Bruce Wayne to explain
https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/ssac19/ssac19_mental_pressure_paper.pdf is the full paper
It's not to suggest anything prescriptive, more to highlight how there is a growing emphasis on the mental side of professional sport. The researchers work with a number of clubs, and have developed a model to predict the performance of players under pressure.
You don't think the mental side of sport is important?
Frang
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im sure its very important … but only to receptive people..
my old man for instance doesn't believe in anyone having mental illness... he just believe's the sufferer is mentally weak.
he doesn't believe a sports pyscologist would be able to improve his game whatsoever either.. so im quite sure hed see all this as guff.
I on the other hand are very interested in studies like this
Yes, but I don't think that study does it well. It doesn't take into account actual footballing talent, for example, of either the individual player or the team overall - and the opposition. The parameters seem very subjective and arbitrary.
Therefore the outcomes are effectively useless IMO.
Be honest now, you came to that conclusion having read the press release rather than the full study, right?
Indeed, that's what you linked.
If it somehow says different in the study, fair enough, but it makes that a bad abstract if so.
Indeed.
So a team of 'researchers' have concluded that some players perform better than others when under pressure?
The same applies to all walks of life surely, whether it's plumbers, builders, nurses or whoever. Don't need research to show that.
Also, any good coach could tell you which players thrive on pressure and which crumble.
Balderdash!
Frang
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@BigBlueNose , I think we've found your dad
I have him on ignore... pressed 'show content' saw it was kev and sighed
@BigBlueNose , I think we've found your dad
You been speaking with his Ma Bruce?
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