ABSTRACT
Match analysis is used within coaching, infotainment, judging and academic contexts to study important tactical aspects of performance in individual or team games. Manual notation systems have been used in the past but now computerized match analysis systems that integrate video and match databases together are affordable to coaches from amateur level to elite squad. Computerized match analysis systems have followed advances in information technology, especially in the areas of human–computer interaction, multimedia technology and distributed systems. There have been previous reviews of the historical development of computerized notational analysis systems and how advances in technology have been exploited. However, the field is moving so rapidly that a recent chapter on match analysis written by this author (O’Donoghue, 2013) is already out of date. Figure 7.1 in the current chapter is an updated version of Figure 11.2 in O’Donoghue’s (2013, p.167) chapter in a sports coaching text book. As well as the need to provide an up-to-date review of computerized match analysis systems, it is also important to consider the area from a computer science perspective. Previous reviews of computerized match analysis have all been written from the view of the application area.
