ABSTRACT
There are different types of research in performance analysis of sport. Selection of the proper statistical analysis techniques helps to answer different types of research questions. The nature of research and the interest of researchers determine the type of collected data. There are four types of measurement scales: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. However, in notational analysis the most common form of data are the frequencies of actions and their respective positions presented as sums or totals (Hughes et al., 2002).
Notational analysis studies have two main purposes. Some papers aimed to find relationships between variables. Fernandez and Ducoing ( 2007 ) observed 680 offences from the European Basketball Championship in 2005 and calculated Pearson’s correlations to find the relationship between the number of passes and the points scored per offensive phase, while Melnick ( 2001 ) tried to find relationships between the number of team assists and win-loss records in the NBA based on five years’ data. The other type of research papers aimed to find differences between variables. Trninic et al. ( 2002 ) investigated situation-related efficiency indicators that differentiated between winning and defeated basketball teams from 1992 to 2000 in the final four tournaments of European club championships. Ibanez et al. ( 2009 ) analysed the differences in shooting performance between two competition levels in Spanish professional (ACB) and amateur (EBA) teams.
