Main description:

The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the athlete or team. Researchers have shown that human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide accurate and objective information for high-performance athletes. Objective measuring tools are necessary to enable the feedback process. These can take the form of video analysis systems post-event, both biomechanical and computerised notation systems, or the use of in-event systems.

Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is fully revised with updated existing chapters and the addition of 12 new chapters. It is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to this core discipline of contemporary sport science. The book offers a full description of the fundamental theory of match and performance analysis, using real-world illustrative examples and data throughout. It also explores the applied contexts in which analysis can have a significant influence on performance. To this end the book has been defined by five sections.

In Section 1 the background of performance analysis is explained and Section 2 discusses methodologies used in notating sport performance. Current issues of performance analysis applied research, such as chance, momentum theory, perturbations and dynamic systems are explored in Section 3. Profiling, the essential output skill in performance analysis, is examined in depth in Section 4. The book's final section offers invaluable applied information on careers available for performance analysts.

With extended coverage of contemporary issues in performance analysis and contributions from leading performance analysis researchers and practitioners, Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is a complete textbook for any performance analysis course, as well as an invaluable reference for sport science or sport coaching students and researchers, and any coach, analyst or athlete looking to develop their professional insight.

Contents:

Section I: The Background

1. The Importance of Feedback to Performance

2. What is Performance Analysis?

3. Project Management Issues in Performance Analysis

4. A Pedagogical Approach to Performance Analysis in the Physical Education

5. Video-based Technologies

Section II: The Methodology of Notational 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

Section III: Current Issues of Performance Analysis

10. Reliability Issues in Sports Performance Analysis

13. Qualitative Biomechanical Analysis of Technique

14. Probability Analysis of Sports Contests: Skill and Chance

15. Applied Motion Analysis

16. Momentum and 'Hot Hands'

17. Dynamic Systems Theory and 'Perturbations'

18. Rule Changes in Sport and the Role of Notation

19. Notational Analysis of Coaching Behaviour

20. Performance Analysis in Elite Masters Football: Strategic Team and Player Development Implications.

Section IV: Profiling in Sport with Examples

21. Performance Profiling

22. Example of Profiling Techniques: Profiling in Soccer

23. Example of Profiling Techniques: Performance Profiling in Squash

24. Profiling in Canoeing - A Practical Example

25. Performance Profiling in Rugby Union

Section V: Careers In Performance Analysis

26. Accreditation

27. Cooperation between Performance Analysis and Sport Data Analysis?

28. References and Bibliography