The use of performance indicators in performance analysis

By Mike Hughes, Roger Bartlett. Jurnal sport science, 2002

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The aims of this paper are to examine the application of performance indicators in different sports and, using the different structural definitions of games, to make general recommendations about the use and application of these indicators. Formal games are classified into three categories: net and wall games, invasion games, and striking and fielding games. The different types of sports are also sub-categorized by the rules of scoring and ending the respective matches. These classes are analysed further, to enable definition of useful performance indicators and to examine similarities and differences in the analysis of the different categories of game. The indices of performance are sub-categorized into general match indicators, tactical indicators, technical indicators and biomechanical indicators. Different research examples and the accuracy of their presentation are discussed. We conclude that, to enable a full and objective interpretation of the data from the analysis of a performance, comparisons of data are vital. In addition, any analysis of the distribution of actions across the playing surface should also be presented normalized, or non-dimensionalized, to the total distribution of actions across the area. Other normalizations of performance indicators should also be used more widely in conjunction with the accepted forms of data analysis. Finally, we recommend that biomechanists should pay more attention to games to enrich the analysis of performance in these sports.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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3D-Multiple Object Tracking training task improves passing decision-making accuracy in soccer players (2016, background): “Passing and shooting the ball have been recognized as important factors that contribute to the success or improvement of performance in invasion games (Hughes & Bartlett, 2002).”
Midfielder as the prominent participant in the building attack: A network analysis of national teams in FIFA World Cup 2014 (2015, background): “One approach is using the traditional notational analysis of singular events (such as passes, recovers, or shots) that quantify the actions of players and provide some information on the type of team performance (Hughes & Bartlett, 2002).”
ANALYSIS OF THE SETTER'S TACTICAL ACTION IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL (2010, background): “Performance analysis is of fundamental importance to understand the factors underlying participation in elite-level sports (Hughes & Bartlett, 2002; Afonso, Mesquita, & Marcelino, 2008).”
Moneyball and soccer - an analysis of the key performance indicators of elite male soccer players by position (2012, background): “But speed, strength, stamina, etc., can be improved by specific training, linked with specific goals and compared to peer aggregated values (see Hughes & Bartlett, 2002).”
Reliability Issues in Performance Analysis (2007, methodology): “To ensure the variables are also valid, Hughes and Bartlett (2002) recommend the use of “performance indicators”.”
Big data and tactical analysis in elite soccer: future challenges and opportunities for sports science (2016, background): “Traditionally, tactics analyses relied on notational analysis approaches based on average statistics and tal-lies (Hughes and Bartlett 2002).”
Performance Profiles based on Archetypal Athletes (2012, methodology): “Hughes and Bartlett (2002) state the basic principle of relating performers’ values for performance indicators to normative data or to opposition values. In this sense, Hughes et al. (2001), James et al. (2005) and O’Donoghue (2005) develop methods to compute stable normative profiles and to relate ”
Applied and theoretical perspectives of performance analysis in sport: Scientific issues and challenges (2009, background): “…is a reasonably substantive enterprise within sports performance analysis (for a detailed consideration of performance indicators in sport, see Hughes & Bartlett, 2002; for a more general consideration of a generation [25 years] of sports performance analysis research published in the…”
Game style in soccer: what is it and can we quantify it? (2016, background): “To assess performance a selection, or combination, of variables that aim to evaluate outcomes have been reported (Hughes & Bartlett, 2002).”
Normative Profiles of Sports Performance (2005, methodology): “The method has four key advantages over the technique proposed by Hughes et al. (2001). Firstly, the technique is concise allowing all of the performance indicators to be displayed on a single radar chart. A disadvantage in how the technique of Hughes et al. (2001) has been used is that a chart is p”
Team performance indicators as a function of winning and losing in rugby union. (2004, methodology): “, in press) as a method of expressing team indicators presented detailed information concerning the team’s performance (Hughes and Bartlett, 2002).”
PREDICTORS OF ATTACK EFFICACY AND ATTACK TYPE IN HIGH-LEVEL BRAZILIAN WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL (2014, background): “The interactions between opposing teams promote the emergence of unique game patterns (Hughes & Bartlett, 2002; O’Donoghue, 2009).”