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References from Explainable machine learning for age-specific talent identification in Chinese youth football. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
A multidisciplinary approach to talent identification in soccer
10.1080/02640410050120078 · 2000 · External reference
Exploring the relationships between potential, performance, and athleticism in elite youth soccer players
10.1177/17479541241270192 · 2024 · External reference
Science or coaches’ eye?–Both! Beneficial collaboration of multidimensional measurements and coach assessments for efficient talent selection in elite youth football
2019 · External reference
A tale of two selection biases: the independent effects of relative age and biological maturity on player selection in the football association of Ireland’s national talent pathway
10.1177/17479541221126152 · 2023 · External reference
Talent identification: time to move forward on estimation of potentials? Proposed explanations and promising methods
10.1007/s40279-024-02171-5 · 2025 · External reference
The role of machine learning in talent identification for team sports: a systematic review
10.52082/jssm.2026.58 · 2026 · External reference
Xgboost: a scalable tree boosting system
10.1145/2939672.2939785 · 2016 · External reference
A unified approach to interpreting model predictions
2017 · External reference
Prediction of talent selection in elite male youth soccer across 7 seasons: a machine-learning approach
10.1080/02640414.2024.2442850 · 2024 · External reference
Talent identification and development in male football: a systematic review
10.1007/s40279-017-0851-7 · 2018 · External reference
Longitudinal development of physical, perceptual-cognitive and skill predictors of talent in academy and professional female football players
10.1080/02640414.2024.2307804 · 2023 · External reference
Longitudinal performance trajectories for youth female and male soccer players: 10m-sprint percentile curves adapted to biological age
2025 · External reference
Nationwide subjective and objective assessments of potential talent predictors in elite youth soccer: an investigation of prognostic validity in a prospective study
10.3389/fspor.2021.638227 · 2021 · External reference
Talent identification and development in soccer.
10.1080/02640410050120041 · 2000 · External reference
Talent identification and development programmes in sport: current models and future directions
10.2165/00007256-200838090-00001 · 2008 · External reference
Long-term athlete development: trainability in childhood and adolescence
2004 · External reference
Characteristics of youth soccer players who drop out, persist or move up
10.1080/02640410902946469 · 2009 · External reference
The relationship between peak height velocity and physical performance in youth soccer players
10.1080/02640410500189371 · 2006 · External reference
Footedness in world soccer: an analysis of France'98
10.1080/026404101753113804 · 2001 · External reference
Leg preference and interlateral asymmetry of balance stability in soccer players
10.1080/02701367.2011.10599718 · 2011 · External reference
Positioning and deciding: key factors for talent development in soccer
10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01104.x · 2011 · External reference
Executive functions predict the success of top-soccer players
10.1371/journal.pone.0034731 · 2012 · External reference
Current performance and future potential of youth elite-level football players: insights from both objective data and coach assessments
10.1080/02640414.2025.2577487 · 2025 · External reference
Talent identification in sport: a systematic review
10.1007/s40279-017-0803-2 · 2018 · External reference
Talent identification in youth soccer
10.1080/02640414.2012.731515 · 2012 · External reference
Profiling, exploiting, and countering psychological characteristics in talent identification and development
10.1123/tsp.2014-0021 · 2015 · External reference
Psychological characteristics and their development in Olympic champions
10.1080/10413200290103482 · 2002 · External reference
Personality in sport: a comprehensive review
10.1080/1750984x.2013.769614 · 2013 · External reference
Eliminating the dichotomy between theory and practice in talent identification and development: considering the role of psychology
10.1080/02640410410001675324 · 2004 · External reference
Self-regulation and performance level of elite and non-elite youth soccer players
10.1080/02640410903369919 · 2009 · External reference
Disagreement between talent scouts: implications for improved talent assessment in youth football
10.1080/02640414.2023.2239614 · 2023 · External reference
Relative age-related biases in objective and subjective assessments of performance in talented youth soccer players
10.3389/fspor.2021.664231 · 2021 · External reference
Compromising talent: issues in identifying and selecting talent in sport
10.1080/00336297.2017.1333438 · 2018 · External reference
Blind scouting: using artificial intelligence to alleviate bias in selection
10.1108/pr-02-2024-0130 · 2025 · External reference
A multidisciplinary investigation into the talent development processes at an English football academy: a machine learning approach
10.3390/sports10100159 · 2022 · External reference
Maximal sprint speed in boys of increasing maturity
10.1123/pes.2013-0096 · 2015 · External reference
Explaining prediction models and individual predictions with feature contributions
10.1007/s10115-013-0679-x · 2014 · External reference
Increasing value and reducing waste in research design, conduct, and analysis
10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62227-8 · 2014 · External reference
Random forests
10.1023/a:1010933404324 · 2001 · External reference
Annual age-grouping and athlete development: a meta-analytical review of relative age effects in sport
10.2165/00007256-200939030-00005 · 2009 · External reference
Why should I trust you?” Explaining the predictions of any classifier
2016 · External reference
From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees
10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9 · 2020 · External reference
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
10.1126/science.aax2342 · 2019 · External reference
Ethical implications of artificial intelligence in sport: a systematic scoping review
10.1016/j.jshs.2025.101047 · 2025 · External reference
Power to the people: the role of humans in interactive machine learning
10.1609/aimag.v35i4.2513 · 2014 · External reference
In AI we trust? Perceptions about automated decision-making by artificial intelligence
10.1007/s00146-019-00931-w · 2020 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2013 · External reference
10.1006/drev.2000.0516 · 2001 · Admitted local publication
Relative age effects across and within female sport contexts: a systematic review and meta-analysis
10.1007/s40279-018-0890-8 · 2018 · External reference
Unnatural selection: talent identification and development in sport
2005 · External reference
Team sports and the theory of deliberate practice
10.1123/jsep.20.1.12 · 1998 · External reference
The developmental activities engaged in by elite youth soccer players who progressed to professional status compared to those who did not
10.1016/j.psychsport.2011.09.004 · 2012 · External reference
Perceptual and cognitive skill development in soccer: the multidimensional nature of expert performance
10.1123/jsep.25.1.93 · 2003 · External reference
Characteristics of youth soccer players aged 13–15 years classified by skill level
10.1136/bjsm.2006.031294 · 2007 · External reference
Challenges and [possible] solutions to optimizing talent identification and development in sport
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00664 · 2020 · External reference
Player-tracking technology: half-full or half-empty glass?
10.1123/ijspp.2016-0499 · 2017 · External reference
A social network analysis of the goal scoring passing networks of the 2016 European football championships
10.1016/j.humov.2017.10.001 · 2018 · External reference
Grit: perseverance and passion for long-term goals
10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.1087 · 2007 · External reference
Evolution of soccer talent identification criteria: a systematic review from global perspectives (1976–2024)
10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1739010 · 2026 · External reference
Prognostic relevance of motor talent predictors in early adolescence: a group-and individual-based evaluation considering different levels of achievement in youth football
10.1080/02640414.2016.1177658 · 2016 · External reference
Contextual factors in sport talent identification research
10.1080/17430437.2023.2288149 · 2024 · External reference
“An eye for talent”: talent identification and the “practical sense” of top-level soccer coaches
10.1123/ssj.26.3.365 · 2009 · External reference
