TY - GEN
T1 - A Cluster Analysis of Identifying Team and Individual Sports Athlete Based on Anthropometric, Health and Skill Related Components
AU - Kamarudin, Noor Aishah
AU - Abdullah, Mohamad Razali
AU - Eswaramoorthi, Vijayamurugan
AU - Maliki, Ahmad Bisyri Husin Musawi
AU - Ab Rasid, Aina Munirah
AU - Majeed, Anwar P.P.Abdul
AU - Razman, Mohd Azraai Mohd
AU - Musa, Rabiu Muazu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The purpose of this study is to identify the essential fitness attributes in an individual sport and team sport. A total number of 218 male competitive youth athletes aged 13 to 21 years old were examined anthropometric, health and skill-related performance parameters (PP). Anthropometric parameters namely, weight, height, sitting height, and arm span were tested while the health-related parameters consisting of sit and reach, 1 min sit up, push up, handgrip, predicted VO2max, and medicine ball throw were also collected. The 20 m speed, vertical jump, standing wide jump, stork stand test, and t-test represented the skill-related component tests. Based on the three components, hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis (HACA) was utilized to group the athlete concerning their similarities in the PP examined. The athletes’ performance within the clusters differs in three areas: age and arm span are significant in individual sports while height, weight, and sitting height are vital for team sports. Muscle endurance is shown to be essential in individual sports. Meanwhile, vertical jump and 20 m speed are more attributed to individual sports while standing broad jump, stork stand test, and t-test are more inclined to team sports. Some fundamental traits could determine the type of sport suitable for athletes. These traits should be prioritized for identifying team or individual sports athletes. The findings could aid coaches in making decisions about the types of sports that could best suit an athlete for better performance delivery.
AB - The purpose of this study is to identify the essential fitness attributes in an individual sport and team sport. A total number of 218 male competitive youth athletes aged 13 to 21 years old were examined anthropometric, health and skill-related performance parameters (PP). Anthropometric parameters namely, weight, height, sitting height, and arm span were tested while the health-related parameters consisting of sit and reach, 1 min sit up, push up, handgrip, predicted VO2max, and medicine ball throw were also collected. The 20 m speed, vertical jump, standing wide jump, stork stand test, and t-test represented the skill-related component tests. Based on the three components, hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis (HACA) was utilized to group the athlete concerning their similarities in the PP examined. The athletes’ performance within the clusters differs in three areas: age and arm span are significant in individual sports while height, weight, and sitting height are vital for team sports. Muscle endurance is shown to be essential in individual sports. Meanwhile, vertical jump and 20 m speed are more attributed to individual sports while standing broad jump, stork stand test, and t-test are more inclined to team sports. Some fundamental traits could determine the type of sport suitable for athletes. These traits should be prioritized for identifying team or individual sports athletes. The findings could aid coaches in making decisions about the types of sports that could best suit an athlete for better performance delivery.
KW - Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering
KW - Individual sport
KW - Performance parameter
KW - Physical fitness components
KW - Team sport
KW - Youth athletes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131117296&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-2095-0_48
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-2095-0_48
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85131117296
SN - 9789811920943
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 561
EP - 570
BT - Enabling Industry 4.0 through Advances in Mechatronics - Selected Articles from iM3F 2021
A2 - Khairuddin, Ismail Mohd.
A2 - Abdullah, Muhammad Amirul
A2 - Ab. Nasir, Ahmad Fakhri
A2 - Mat Jizat, Jessnor Arif
A2 - Mohd. Razman, Mohd. Azraai
A2 - Abdul Ghani, Ahmad Shahrizan
A2 - Zakaria, Muhammad Aizzat
A2 - Mohd. Isa, Wan Hasbullah
A2 - Abdul Majeed, Anwar P.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Innovative Manufacturing, Mechatronics and Materials Forum, iM3F 2021
Y2 - 20 September 2021 through 20 September 2021
ER -