Figure 5.

Approach (a) and exit (b) accelerations for different cut angle ranges (in degrees). The purple dot shows the average speed for each cut angle range, while the black line shows standard deviation. Though approach acceleration values are all negative, they are shown on the left as positive. Accelerations from the three teams are shown in different colors and an example path of a player through a cut is shown in green arrows. The polar axes are restricted to better show trends; 13 outlier accelerations are outside this view.