ABSTRACT
The best way to appreciate the intricacies of notational analysis is to examine systems for the sport(s) in which you are interested, or sports that are similar. Presented here are a number of examples of different systems for different sports. They have been devised by students of notational analysis and are therefore of differing levels of complexity and sophistication – but there are always lessons to be learnt even from the simplest of systems. The explanations and analyses are completed by beginners at notational analysis, coaches of these sports should not therefore be irritated at some of the simplistic levels of analysis for the respective sports. The encouraging aspects about these examples are the amounts of information that the systems provide – even the simplest of these. Examples 9.21 and 9.22 are for individual sports, while examples 9.31–9.33 are for team games. More examples can be found in the first version of the book – Notational Analysis of Sport, by Hughes and Franks (1997).
