NGGP Projects – hosted by University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Integrating state of the art methods for time-series and athlete monitoring into decision support systems and capability for applied sport practitioners

Theme: Personalised Performance and Team Performance

Student: Arlo Hook

Host University:  University of Technology Sydney

Sports research objectives/questions:

  • Improving the efficacy of quantifying and understanding athletes’ performance longitudinally.
  • Improved longitudinal tracking and trend analysis.
  • Increase in application of foundational principles by Performance Support

A hard reset for cricket analysis: assessment of the current game state, its inefficiencies, and a new method to identify competitive advantage

Theme: Personalised performance and team performance

Student type: Sebastian Woods

Host University:  University of Technology Sydney

Sports research objectives/questions: What are the next generation of cricket statistics and how can career profiling inform nuanced squad management in the modern game.

  • IDENTIFICATION: Identifying important and contemporary features of performance for cricket (this is inclusive of understanding how many of these measures we need to be tracking, and also understanding why they are relevant relative to performance).
  • CREATING: Is it possible to create new features that are predictive of performance in cricket?
  • PROFILING: Explore these features relative to both team and individual performance, and variations of both (i.e. what does a good partnership look like). Is it possible to build profiles around team and individual performance?
  • INCORPORATE TIME: Incorporate longitudinal and time-series components to profiling into predictive ability relative to performance (inclusive of career profiling, temporal characteristics relative to peaking in the career).

What makes a well run Rugby club

Theme: Build capacity

Student type: Sinan Koparan

Host University:  University of Technology Sydney

Sports research objectives/questions: There is a unique opportunity to grow the sport of Rugby and maximise health, wellbeing and social outcomes across Australia and Pacific regions.

  • What help makes a club successful?
  • How do we learn from this to collectively raise the standard of rugby clubs to achieve long term sustainability in the community?

The two major themes are:

  • to build capacity and capability of Rugby’s community clubs
  • to increase opportunities for participation and greater inclusion

Rugby facilities gap analysis

Theme: Increase opportunities for participation and greater inclusion

Student type: PhD – Submit an Expression of Interest

Host University:  University of Technology Sydney

Sports research objectives/questions:

  • Where do we need to focus growth in facilities to prepare for tomorrow’s Australia?
  • What formats of the game work in different scenarios?