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roles", "Employment contracts and recruitment advertisements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The role must be interpreted within a named sport; a position label alone does not establish its responsibilities.", "Its assigned emphasis is protecting scoring opportunities or restricting threatening progression, rather than merely occupying a rearward location.", "An attacker temporarily defending does not automatically become a defender; distinguish an immediate action from an assigned position or sustained role.", "A defender assignment identifies what a player is expected to do, whereas the player remains a separate person who may hold different assignments.", "Goalkeeping must be distinguished where the sport grants that position different rules, equipment or handling privileges." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Sport and rules context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named sport, format, competition and applicable rules edition", "why_it_matters": "Determines what 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protect space or transfer responsibility." }, { "name": "Phase-specific duty", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Responsibilities during settled defence, transition, possession and applicable restarts", "why_it_matters": "A defender's obligations can change when possession or play conditions change." }, { "name": "Deployment readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ready, restricted, unavailable or unassessed for a named assignment", "why_it_matters": "Connects capability and availability evidence to a particular deployment." }, { "name": "Defensive intervention outcome", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Counts or proportions of sport-defined outcomes, with opportunity denominator and observation period", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment without confusing frequent interventions with effective defending." }, { "name": "Coordination dependency", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Cover, handoff and communication relationships with teammates", "why_it_matters": "Many defensive decisions depend on another player's position and responsibility." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a defender label against a named sport and tactical assignment.", "Assign or review responsibility for an opponent, zone or threat during a specified phase.", "Compare deployment requirements with recorded competences and restrictions.", "Review defensive decisions using opportunities, positioning and team context.", "Identify training needs in marking, anticipation, intervention or defensive coordination.", "Flag ambiguous assignments and unsupported performance conclusions for human review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "defender-role-boundaries", "name": "Defender role boundaries", "description": "Establishes which sporting sense and level of defensive assignment the entry represents.", "rationale": "The name is ambiguous, and defensive participation alone does not establish a defender role.", "layers": [ { "id": "sport-specific-meaning", "name": "Sport-specific meaning", "description": "Anchors the defender designation to the sport in which it is used.", "findings": [ { "id": "defender-sense", "name": "Defender sense", "description": "Record the intended sport and supporting registry provenance before treating this provisional interpretation as settled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sport or source concept does vr.tr.defender designate?", "kind": "definition", "id": "defender-sense-q01" }, { "text": "What original registry record or external identifier establishes that sense?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "defender-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "position-and-assignment", "name": "Position and assignment", "description": "Separates an enduring position label from a temporary defensive task.", "findings": [ { "id": "assignment-status", "name": "Assignment status", "description": "Identify whether defender denotes a declared position, a tactical assignment or an interpretation of observed play.", "questions": [ { "text": "What makes this assignment a defender role rather than an attacking player performing a defensive action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assignment-status-q01" }, { "text": "Who assigned or inferred the role, and for which match, interval or phase does it apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assignment-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "threats-and-defensive-responsibility", "name": "Threats and defensive responsibility", "description": "Describes what the defender must protect and how responsibility changes during play.", "rationale": "A defender cannot be evaluated meaningfully without knowing which threats and spaces were assigned.", "layers": [ { "id": "protection-and-marking", "name": "Protection and marking", "description": "Records the opponents, areas and routes the defender is expected to control.", "findings": [ { "id": "assigned-threat-control", "name": "Assigned threat control", "description": "Make marking and protection duties explicit, including priorities when threats compete.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which opponent, area or progression route is the defender responsible for in this situation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assigned-threat-control-q01" }, { "text": "When following an opponent would expose a protected area, which responsibility takes priority?", "kind": "action", "id": "assigned-threat-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "phase-changes-and-cover", "name": "Phase changes and cover", "description": "Captures transition duties and coordinated transfers of defensive responsibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "defensive-duty-transitions", "name": "Defensive duty transitions", "description": "Specify how the defender responds to possession changes, teammate movement and applicable restarts.", "questions": [ { "text": "After a turnover, what determines whether the defender pressures, delays, tracks an opponent or recovers space?", "kind": "action", "id": "defensive-duty-transitions-q01" }, { "text": "Which teammate provides cover, and what cue transfers marking responsibility?", "kind": "action", "id": "defensive-duty-transitions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "permitted-interventions-and-readiness", "name": "Permitted interventions and readiness", "description": "Connects defensive actions to the rules and capabilities needed for the assignment.", "rationale": "An effective defensive intention can still produce an impermissible action or exceed a player's assessed capability.", "layers": [ { "id": "defensive-action-boundaries", "name": "Defensive action boundaries", "description": "Identifies the sport-specific limits on challenging opponents and preventing progression.", "findings": [ { "id": "lawful-defensive-options", "name": "Lawful defensive options", "description": "Record permitted intervention types and relevant restrictions without transferring assumptions between sports.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which forms of interception, blocking, tackling or contact are permitted under the applicable rules?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lawful-defensive-options-q01" }, { "text": "Which authoritative rule passages support these limits, including any position-specific exceptions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lawful-defensive-options-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-fit", "name": "Assignment fit", "description": "Assesses whether a prospective role holder can fulfil the specified defensive duties.", "findings": [ { "id": "defender-deployment-evidence", "name": "Defender deployment evidence", "description": "Relate anticipation, positioning, intervention technique and communication evidence to the proposed assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed evidence shows that the player can perform the marking, recovery and coordination duties required here?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "defender-deployment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which eligibility, availability or assessed capability restrictions affect this deployment?", "kind": "action", "id": 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"defensive-contribution-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes the defender's contribution from teammate cover, opponent error or limited exposure?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "defensive-contribution-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "How will effective positioning that prevents an attempted attack be assessed when no intervention is recorded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "defensive-contribution-assessment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "review-and-improvement", "name": "Review and improvement", "description": "Turns supported observations into changes to training or defensive assignment.", "findings": [ { "id": "defensive-development-decisions", "name": "Defensive development decisions", "description": "Identify whether a recurring problem calls for skill development, clearer coordination or a revised assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the observed difficulty concern anticipation, technique, recovery, communication or an unclear tactical instruction?", "kind": "definition", "id": "defensive-development-decisions-q01" }, { "text": "What training or assignment change follows from the evidence, and what observation would show improvement?", "kind": "action", "id": "defensive-development-decisions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded, and the batch 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "wing-back", "centre-back", "full-back", "stopper", "right-back", "left back" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 82 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 6 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one defender from another, and a defender from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a defender sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a defender from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a defender is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a defender is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a defender moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a defender passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a defender between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a defender, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a defender is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a defender.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a defender and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a defender, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a defender and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a defender sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as defender.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does defender require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses defender, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What defender actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define defender, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as defender, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a defender came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a defender and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a defender is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a defender, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a defender, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a defender is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }