ABSTRACT
Judgement and decision-making (JDM) in sports are terms often used interchangeably: for instance, when referees judge a performance or decide on a penalty, a coach selects one player in the starting line-up over another, or a player chooses to pass the ball left. An important differentiator between different JDM tasks in sport is the timeline, as choices, such as a playmaker’s decision to pass to a teammate, can take mere milliseconds, up to much lengthier decisions that can take months or years, such as an athlete’s choice to end her career. Sport JDM researchers using the main theoretical approaches we have reviewed have created a strong and growing knowledge base. There are clever and elegant studies, using various methods, and important findings. The study of action choice in sport was particularly accelerated with the use of and ability to easily edit video of gameplay.
