Table of 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

About the Author

Mike Hughes is Emeritus Professor of Sport and Exercise Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He is the founder and now President of ISPAS (International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport); President of the International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport Asia; Member of the Coordination Council, and Chair of the Performance Analysis Group for the International Network of Sport and Health Science. He has four International Journal Editorial Board positions. He has published over 200 papers, over 24 books, organised 25 international conferences, and is a frequent keynote speaker. He is also a consultant to NGB’s - for squash, rugby, hockey, soccer and badminton - EIS, PGIR. His accreditations include Level 5 by ISPAS; BASES Accredited ‘Sport and Exercise Scientist’. He is a Level IV squash coach, has coached English and Welsh national squads, and GB University squash squad. He founded the International Journal of Performance Analysis of Sport. His research interests include analysis of sports performance, analysis of coaching behaviour, developing methodologies in notational analysis, modelling of sports performance, dynamic systems and momentum in sport and Performance profiling.

Ian M. Franks PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He now specializes in the neural control of skillful movement in his Motor Learning and Control Laboratory at the School of Kinesiology, UBC. Since joining UBC in 1980 he has published over 150 refereed research articles, 22 book chapters and five books in the areas of Sport Analysis, Skill Acquisition and Movement Control.

Henriette Dancs is a Professor in the Institute of Sport Sciences at Szombathely, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Professor Dancs has more than 30 years' academic experience involved in wide range of different academic activities in Hungary and in abroad (Founder/Coordinator and now General Secretary of the International Network on Sport and Health Sciences). She has developed and designed courses and also was involved in the organization of a number of international academic projects (e.g. IPPAS 2000- 2003, an international ISPAS courses) and study programs on the field of Performance Analysis in Sport. Her related lecturing subjects are Perfomance Analysis in Sport, Notational Anaylsis, and Project Management.