A Comparison of a Smartphone App with Other GPS Tracking Type Devices Employed in Football

Peter Tierney, Neil Clarke

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    Abstract

    OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a smartphone application in comparison against current GPS tracking type devices that are used to track players during football training and match play. Football involves repeated multi directional movements of the whole body at varying speeds and varying distances from walking to high speed running. Therefore, to evaluate validity and reliability of smartphones and elite tracker devices both were assessed and compared against each other for common metrics employed in football player activity tracking.METHODS  These being, walking ≤6km/hr, jogging 6.1-12km/hr, running 12.1-18km/hr, high speed running ≥18km/hr, total distance (m), max speed (km/hr) and positional heat map. Post analysis values obtained showed that there were no significant differences between smartphones employed in the study p
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalExercise Medicine
    Volume3
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 24 Apr 2019

    Keywords

    • GPS
    • Mobile application
    • Smartphone

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