Calculating Goal Keeper Reaction Time: A Mathematical Approach

[Dona123]

I want to calculate the goal keeper reaction time when ball is moving to the goal mouth in a particular velocity and swing...

Please share your valuable thoughts...

 

[LCKurtz]

I want to calculate the goal keeper reaction time when ball is moving to the goal mouth in a particular velocity and swing...

Please share your valuable thoughts...

Soccer? Hockey? Either way, as an approximation, divide the approximate distance from the player to the goal by the approximate speed of the ball/puck. In either case I would think the length of travel is well reasonably approximated by the distance its shadow travels along the ground.

 

[Dona123]

Thanks for your reply.I was asking about soccer game.

When a soccer event like freekick, then how can we calculate the distance from the player to goal mouth, if an impulse force is acting on the soccer ball?

 

[LCKurtz]

Thanks for your reply.I was asking about soccer game.

When a soccer event like freekick, then how can we calculate the distance from the player to goal mouth, if an impulse force is acting on the soccer ball?

What does the impulse force have to do with the distance from the kicker to the goal? I'm not a soccer buff, but surely you can look up data on the distance between the kicker and the goal and the average speed generated by a kicker. Try Google.

 

[Borek]

Unless I am missing something you are not looking for a goalkeeper reaction time - this can be measured, and is around 0.20-0.27 sec for untrained people, down to about 0.15 sec for trained sportsmen. What you are looking is a time goalkeeper HAS for the reaction. Subtle, but important difference.

 

[Dona123]

Thanks for your reply...i'm looking for a mathematical procedure for finding the goal reaction time.