Publications

Theory and data analysis of player and team ball possession time in football,
Ken Yamamoto, Seiya Uezu, Keiichiro Kagawa, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Takuma Narizuka,
Phys. Rev. E 109, 014305 (2024) [web] [arxiv:2308.05460]

Validation of a motion model for soccer players' sprint by means of tracking data,
Takuma Narizuka, Kenta Takizawa, and Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
Scientific Reports 13, 865 (2023) [web] [arXiv:2205.04511].

Space evaluation in football games via field weighting based on tracking data,
Takuma Narizuka, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, and Kenta Takizawa,
Scientific Reports 11, 5509 (2021) [web] [arXiv:2001.11629].

Preferential model for the evolution of pass networks in ball sports,
Ken Yamamoto and Takuma Narizuka,
Phys.Rev.E 103, 032302 (2021) [web].

Lifetime distributions for adjacency relationships in a Vicsek Model,
Takuma Narizuka and Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
Phys. Rev. E 100, 032603 (2019) [web] [arXiv:1812.06395].

Clustering algorithm for formations in football games,
Takuma Narizuka and Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
Scientific Reports 9, 13172 (2019) [web] [arXiv:1805.07525].

Examination of Markov-chain approximation in football games based on time evolution of ball-passing networks,
Ken Yamamoto and Takuma Narizuka,
Phys. Rev. E. 98, 052314 (2018) [web].

(in Japanese) Characterization of the formation structure in team sports
Takuma Narizuka and Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Proc. of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Special Topic: New Challenges to Statistical Science in Sports, Vol 65-2, 299-307 (2017)
[web] [English version: arXiv:1802.06766].

Statistical properties for directional alignment and chasing of players in football games,
Takuma Narizuka and Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
Europhysics Letters, Vol. 116, 68001 (2017)  [web] [arXiv:1611.03880].

Degree distribution of position-dependent ball-passing networks in football games,
Takuma Narizuka, Ken Yamamoto, and Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 84, 084003 (2015)  [web] [arXiv:1504.00208].

Markov-Chain Model for position-dependent ball-passing networks in football games,
Takuma Narizuka, Ken Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
Advance in Science, Technology and Environmentology, Special Issue on New Challenges in Complex Systems Science, Vol. B11, 151-153 (2015).

Statistical properties of position-dependent ball-passing networks in football games,
Takuma Narizuka, Ken Yamamoto, and Yoshihiro Yamazaki,
Physica A, Vol. 412, 157-168 (2014) [web] [arXiv:1311.0641].