ABSTRACT

Practitioners and sports scientists have been always seeking to identify key factors or characteristics that can distinguish between successful and less successful players and teams (Nevill et al. 2009; Reilly et al. 2000). Quantitative analysis of performance provides coaches with additional information that describes performance in detail beyond that which they can access through recall of personal observations (Borrie et al. 2002). Such critical information allows coaches to improve performance during matches and practice, through the improvement of feedback in an appropriate form (Franks 1997).