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14. Coaching Legacies: Influence Propagation in Sport | In Memoriam: John Stevenson
In this episode I examine the research paper “Coaching Legacies: Influence Propagation Through Temporal Social Networks” by Gordana Marmulla, Geoff Dickson, Hagen Wäsche, and Ulrik Brandes.
The study explores a fascinating question: can the influence of a coach actually be measured?
Using more than a century of data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the researchers constructed a temporal social network linking players and coaches across generations. The model tracks how coaching philosophies may propagate when athletes later transition into coaching roles themselves.
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