Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport

Mike Hughes is Emeritus Professor of Performance Analysis at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland; Nottingham Trent University, UK; Otto von Guericke University, Germany; Edith Cowan University, Australia; University of Putra, Malaysia; and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is an accredited level 5 performance analyst (ISPAS), a BOA-registered performance analyst, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. His professional consultancy has included work in squash, rugby, football and hockey, and his publications include the seminal performance analysis textbooks, Essentials of Performance Analysis and Notational Analysis of Sport (both with Ian Franks and published by Routledge). Ian M. Franks is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada. His research is primarily concerned with the control and acquisition of human motor skills, and he is a leading authority in sport performance analysis and the analysis of coaching behaviour. Ian is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) and a Fellow of the American Academy for Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE). As well as numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, Ian is the co-editor and co-author (with Mike Hughes) of the seminal performance analysis textbooks, Essentials of Performance Analysis and Notational Analysis of Sport (both published by Routledge).

Introduction  1. The importance of feedback to performance  2. What is Performance Analysis?  3. Providing information for teaching skills in sport  4. Video-based technologies, substitution of reality and performance feedback  5. An overview of the development of notation analysis  6. The use of performance indicators in performance analysis  7. Sports analysis  8. How do we design simple systems? - How to develop a notation system  9. Examples of notation systems  10. Analysis of Notation Data: Reliability  11. Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis of Technique  12. Applied motion analysis  a. Systems of Measurement in Time-Motion Analysis – a case study of soccer  b. Some practical notes on GPS systems  13. Probability analysis of notated events in sport contests: skill and chance  14. Dynamic systems and ‘Perturbations’  15. Momentum and ‘Hot Hands’  16. Performance Profiling  17. Rule changes in sport and the role of notation  18. Notational analysis of coaching behaviour  19. Performance analysis in the media  20. References