Modeling the impact of players' workload on the injury-burden of English Premier League football clubs

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
C W Fuller

Abstract

The loss of players through injury is known to affect team performance in many sports; it is important, therefore, for professional teams to be able to quantify the likely injury-burden that will be encountered throughout a season. A kinetic model, based on the rates at which match and training injuries are sustained and resolved, a team's squad size and the 2017/2018 season fixture schedule for teams competing in the English Premier League, is used to produce daily forecasts of injury-burden experienced by a typical team. The incidences and median severities of match (incidence: 26.9 injuries/1000 player-match hours, 95% CI: 21.5-33.7; severity: 17.5 days, 95% CI: 13.0-28.0) and training (incidence: 4.3 injuries/1000 player-training hours, 95% CI: 3.4-5.5; severity: 14.0 days, 95% CI: 11.0-22.0) injuries were determined using data collected from four English Premier League football clubs during the 2016/2017 season. Time-to-recovery curves for the match and training injuries sustained in the Premier League closely matched the time-to-recovery curves predicted by the kinetic model used in this study. The kinetic model predicted higher match and lower training injury burdens and a higher overall injury burden for successful team...Continue Reading

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