Notational Analysis In Sports

There is a field in the sport of basketball that is growing at a rapid pace. That field is called analytics. Nearly every team in the NBA now has an analytics department. However, it is important to fully understand analytics before applying that knowledge to the sport of basketball. “Analytics is the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data” (Stolbunov 1). Analytics being used in sports is simply called sports analytics. Even though analytics has its flaws, it has had a major impact on team building in basketball using statistics like player efficiency rating and effective field goal percentage. There are many important statistics used in analytics, but a couple are used to very great effect.

With speed being a primary element of fitness for soccer players, developing the proper types of speed is important. In soccer, developing both acceleration and linear speed is significant in the first few steps. According to research, sprints in soccer are mainly performed over short distances, involving repeated acceleration up and down the field (Milinkovic, Sporiš, Trajković, James, & Šamija, 2013). This explains why various components of speed such as running speed, reaction speed, and acceleration speed need development in soccer players. The next area of focus would be quickness. Both speed and quickness go hand and hand in most sports especially soccer. When developing quickness in soccer players, ensuring the athlete can produce a rapid response time during training and competition is

The study of sports analytics is a common strategy and performance tool for players and fans. Many professional athletes will study analytics to help improve their game. Not only do professional athletes use this to their advantage but fans and workers in the sports world can use it to study the game and make wise predictions. Sports analytics also provides an in-depth evaluation of how numbers can track a particular sport and helps us follow along to a closer degree. Sports analytics provides a strategy for studying player’s habits and the selected sport as well as digging deep into the root of the game and understanding it from an analytic point of view.

The majority of previous research pertaining to performance analysis in basketball has been focused on the quantitative analysis of game-related statistics, commonly found in a basketball box-score (Sampaio et al., 2006). These game-related statistics include: field goal attempts, field goals made, field goal percentage, 3-point field goal attempts, 3-point field goals made, 3-point field goal percentage, free throws attempted, free throws made, free throw percentage, defensive rebounds, offensive rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers and personal fouls.

Competition is a unique situation in life to analyze. If you can focus on the small details outside of the game, there’s a possibility that you can understand the way an athlete is performing and why a coach is behaving a certain way. In the heat of the moment, if not properly trained, one can not perform to their potential due to the pressure that the moment of competition can place on an individual. This can be just as much for coaches and how they react and act as much as it goes for player. Effective coaches know how to use the situation to their advantage and know what to do or how to react at the appropriate time. In this paper, I’ll examine the competition of the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh Titans and the St. Thomas Tommies in a NCAA Division 3 playoff game. I’m watching this game from the UW-Oshkosh side, so I will be observing the UW-Oshkosh football team for the most part. With this competition between UW-Oshkosh and St. Thomas, I’ll break down this paper into four talking points and the effects of said points. These four points are pre-competition routine, feedback and reinforcement by coach, game flow and interruptions and then other thoughts and factors that I noticed during the game.

There are a series of periods that teams go through in making their decisions. The first is the preparation period, where the coaches and players anticipate the actions the opponents intend to perform and the probability of the actions. This early stage process is the one where video observation is used, studying the opponent’s strengths, weaknesses, and styles of play.

There are many terms that we use in our everyday lives that also have their own application to the field of Sport and Performance psychology. For example, performance is simply performing a sport, whether it is team or individual. Commonly, athletes are striving to increase performance. Researchers record how the athlete performed at during a set task, then compare it to an equal measure and performance at a different time. An example would be, how many free throws were made out of shooting 10 shots, or how many passes were recorded in a game.

The methods of data collection I will use to analyze Carolyn’s movement skills in the fouls shot are a digital camcorder recording of sagittal plane of her dominant side, also frontal plane view. I will use Coaches Eye, a video recording application. Three times will be recorded for analysis. I also will physically record on a chart. My limitations will be the environment because I will have to conduct this analysis outside of a gym, so I will not have a basketball hoop but I will have a goal for Carolyn to aim for. With this data that I will apply it to what I have researched about gaining and practicing the best skill for the ultimate performance. Then I will have my subject Carolyn practice and then re analyze her movement’s.

My local high school’s football team has recently encountered a complication in that most of the players are not performing up to their full potential. In fact, the team has been getting worse over the last couple of months. There are many possible reasons for this, but by using the scientific method, I discovered the source of the issue.

Every sporting team needs evaluating so that they know their strengths and weaknesses. Evaluation is very important in sports as the performers need to know if they are working the the sport’s average potential and how (if needed) to improve.

The game of circle ball consists of a lot of short explosive bursts of energy. For example, sprinting to defend or jumping up to catch the ball. It is a team game but I am going to look at how I can improve an individual’s performance as a defender. Within the game of circle ball there are many demanding factors an individual has to cope with, these being your psychological and physiological state, nutrition and biomechanics. I will produce a needs analysis by taking one major part of each factor so it is more in depth and I can get the best out of the performer in each area. I will also be including a range of academic literature and scientific evidence to back up my opinions and theories. The needs analysis will be in action after the first

Norm-referenced interpretation (p. 148)– an interpretation of data that compares a participant’s results to the results of other participants

activity they are doing. This will then help to build a picture and allow the analyst to interpret

Performance profiling is used in many sports and has been found to enhance coach-athlete communication by enabling the coach to understand how the athlete currently feels about their training or performance. This information has been found to assist the coach in the development of training sessions that take into account the athlete’s perspective.

There are numerous fitness factors that are required for successful performance in the sport of volleyball. Using the data from Figure 1, identify and analyse three major fitness factors utilised in the game of volleyball. When are these most likely to be used in a match?