- Title
- Factors relating to the decision-making performance of Australian football officials
- Creator
- Elsworthy, Nathan; Burke, Darren; Dascombe, Ben J.
- Relation
- International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport Vol. 14, Issue 2, p. 401-410
- Publisher
- U. W. I. C. Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Team sport officials are charged with the responsibility to enforce the laws of the game and their performance is based upon the quality of their decisions during a match. The current investigation examined the effects of positioning and retrospective physical demands had on the decision- making accuracy of Australian football officials. Match decision-making statistics and time motion data from 20 elite Australian football matches and the factors related to improved decision-making during match play were examined. Most decisions were made from a distance between 11-15 m, however distance from play had no significant effect on accuracy. There was no significant effect of movement velocity at the time of a decision on accuracy. There was a significant (P<0.05) difference between correct and incorrect decisions in the running speed across the 5 s prior to the decision being made. These findings determine that there is no effect of distance from play or instantaneous velocity on decision-making accuracy during match play. However, higher relative running speeds prior to a decision increases the likelihood of a decisional error. Superior anticipatory skill may reduce the running demands immediately prior to a decision, and therefore possibly improve the decision-making accuracy of umpires.
- Subject
- perceptual-cognitive demands; match analysis; technical performance; team sport officials
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1304767
- Identifier
- uon:20921
- Identifier
- ISSN:1474-8185
- Language
- eng
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