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Parameter space for successful soccer kicks

Brandon G Cook and John Eric Goff

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A computational model of two important types of soccer kicks, the free kick and the corner kick, is developed with the goal of determining the success rate for each type of kick. What is meant by 'success rate' is the probability of getting an unassisted goal via a free kick and the probability of having a corner kick reach an optimum location so that a teammate's chance of scoring a goal is increased. Success rates are determined through the use of four-dimensional parameter space volumes. A one-in-ten success rate is found for the free kick while the corner-kick success rate is found to be one in four.


PACS

01.80.+b Physics of sports

45.10.Na Geometrical and tensorial methods

Subjects

Computational physics

Education and communication

Dates

Issue 4 (July 2006)

Received 7 March 2006, in final form 3 May 2006

Published 30 May 2006



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