Leadership Micro-Behaviors and Team Performance Data from a Professional Football Study

A dataset from a stepped-wedge field study examining leadership interventions in elite sport. The data includes longitudinal team-level panel data and 1,567 daily diary observations from players across 10 professional football teams over up to 24 competitive weeks. The study was authored by René Paasch and published on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between leadership micro-behaviors and team psychological safety based on the described intervention.
• Analyzing performance stability versus average performance outcomes in competitive sports teams.
• Investigating the moderating effect of competitive pressure on leadership and team resource associations.
• Studying within-team changes using fixed-effects and event-study models as described in the methodology.

Strengths

• Includes 1,567 player-day observations from daily diary assessments.
• Longitudinal data spans up to 24 competitive weeks across 10 teams.
• Uses a stepped-wedge field design, which is a rigorous methodology for intervention studies.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small at 48.9 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by René Paasch.

Collection Method

Data collected via a stepped-wedge field study combining team-level panel data with daily diary assessments.

Time Range

Observations were made across up to 24 competitive weeks.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:29:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Professional football teams; specific location is unknown.