Footballs teams exhibiting Lévy walk

Graph showing four trajectories: the movements of players from the two teams as well as the center of masses (centroids) of each team. The centroids clearly exhibit Lévy walk movement, with long, straight paths between tighter clusters of localized movement.

The trajectories of all players from both teams depicted with semitransparent dotted lines and trajectories of their respective centers of masses (centroids) shown with solid lines. The first 5 minutes of the game are shown. Red is Team 1 and blue is Team 2.

Date:
10 March 2025
Credit:
Shpurov et al., 2024

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