ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses how players develop superior anticipation and decision-making and how interventions can be developed to create more ‘game-intelligent’ players. While technology has improved significantly over recent decades, it has historically been difficult to record accurate gaze data during actual match situations. An alternative approach has been to record player head movements in matches as a rough proxy for visual search and scanning. A perceptual-cognitive skill that has received attention over the past decade has been the use of situational probabilities or more broadly, contextual information or priors in anticipation. An equally important challenge for players is to select and execute the correct response to positively influence the current and evolving situation in the match. For coaches, video-based performance analysis is seen as a support tool that can assist in learning (i.e., anticipation/decision-making) and towards developing a mutual understanding between coaches and players.
