ABSTRACT
Momentum analysis, through notational analysis techniques, has been enthusiastically received by coaches in a number of sports such as basket ball, volley ball and and squash, both individual and team. It enables a clear indication of the turning points in the match, and is particularly interesting when used with qualitative factors, such as positive phases or perturbations. These researches have been developed with the primary aim of expanding the profiling repertoire of performance analysts in their quest of supporting the coaches and their athletes. The 'hot hands' research is aimed at establishing, or otherwise, that athletes who are in a winning streak are more likely to keep winning, this is still an area of ambiguity. If athletic performance is unconditionally not elevated due to past success, obviously the mental techniques commonly used in both training and competitions should be reconsidered.
