Pre-Season ACL Risk Classification of Professional and Semi-Professional Football Players, via a Proof-of-Concept Test Battery
, Sofia A. Xergia, Maria Tsekoura, Konstantinos Fousekis and Elias Tsepis *Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
1. Provide more detailed information about the methodology, including the selection criteria for participants, data collection procedures, and any potential limitations or biases that may have influenced the results.
2. Please correct the content of the text according to the format in the abstract. Remove the bold.
3. In Table 1, the section about the athlete's height is incorrect. Please check again.
4. Modify Table 3 according to the form.
5. Validating the screening battery with an independent sample of football players from different settings or populations would confirm the generalizability and reliability of the tool.
6. Add the limitations of your study at the end of your discussion.
7. Edit your references according to the format.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors, your work is intriguing, with a good sample of professional players. I recommend greater clarity, however, in the development of methods and statistics. the results seem small, have you calculated the sensitivity and specificity of your approach? is a concept study on the reliability of a rating system. So I think its reproducibility is fundamental
3 comprehensive battery tests: a proof-of-concept?
... holistic seems to recall a complementary approach
12 males? sport? in the methods I would suggest to let the reader understand how you defined low risk or high risk (L16)
17 sensitivity and specificity?
21 I would suggest providing some data
39 neuromotor control (ref: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31711040/ ), as indeed you suggest in the analysis of your results.
113 Is the Greek third division really semi-professional? I think it's all about professionals.
L226 should go into design as considering high and low risk is not clear even in the abstract
L238 the start of the results coincides with the presentation of the selection of players
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Thank you for revising the paper according to the opinions of the reviewers. Congratulations on completing your thesis.
