@Article{Sansone2021,
journal="Biology of Sport",
issn="0860-021X",
volume="38",
number="2",
year="2021",
title="Training load, recovery and game performance in semiprofessional male basketball: influence of individual characteristics and contextual factors",
abstract="This study examined the effects of individual characteristics and contextual factors on training load, pre-game recovery and game performance in adult male semi-professional basketball. Fourteen players were monitored, across a whole competitive season, with the session-RPE method to calculate weekly training load, and the Total Quality Recovery Scale to obtain pre-game recovery scores. Additionally, game-related statistics were gathered during official games to calculate the Performance Index Rating (PIR). Individual characteristics and contextual factors were grouped using k-means cluster analyses. Separate mixed linear models for repeated measures were performed to evaluate the single and combined (interaction) effects of individual characteristics (playing experience; playing position; playing time) and contextual factors (season phase; recovery cycle; previous game outcome; previous and upcoming opponent level) on weekly training load, pre-game recovery and PIR. Weekly load was higher in guards and medium minute-per-game (MPG) players, and lower for medium-experienced players, before facing high-level opponents, during later season phases and short recovery cycles (all p",
author="Sansone, Pierpaolo
and Gasperi, Lorenzo
and Tessitore, Antonio
and Gomez, Miguel",
pages="207--217",
doi="10.5114/biolsport.2020.98451",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2020.98451"
}