ABSTRACT
Improvements in sports performance are information dependent. However, for many major sports, match play is dynamic in space and time, there are numbers of participating players and competition unfolds over approximately hour-long periods. These features make sports notation challenging. Notational techniques overcome the limitations imposed by the information-processing capacity of the human brain, memory encoding and individual bias (Franks and Miller, 1986; Franks, 2004; Breedlove et al., 2010). Written accounts of notation present the variety of approaches to acquiring data, from pencil and paper methods to computer-based video processing (Reep and Benjamin, 1968; Liebermann and Franks, 2004; Carling et al., 2005).
