Comparing Gaelic football to the determinants of winning performance in Australian Rules football

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Brown, George
Date
2014Type
Dissertation
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Cardiff Metropolitan University
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With reference to player recruitment, performance analysis has seldom been completed on
two different sports within one code; nor has much research centred on Gaelic football
(GF), due in part to its amateur status. Post-event analysis was undertaken on 10 precoded
Toyota AFL 2013 Premiership Australian Rules football (ARF) matches and nine
2013 GF Senior County matches. Hand notation was used for analysing the GF footage.
Test-retest reliability was conducted, with an overall percentage error of 5.2% being
deemed adequate for the systems use.
The initial part of the study assessed the differences between winning and losing in ARF
(using Wilcoxon’s Signed Ranks test) with significant differences (p < 0.05) found in
uncontested possessions, kick clangers and goals at team level; contested marks,
handballs ineffective and frees against for defensive units; kick clangers for midfield units;
disposals, total handballs, inside 50s and handball clangers for offensive units; kick
clangers for midfielders and uncontested possessions for ruckmen. As such, these KPIs
should be assessed throughout the season on a game-by-game basis to evaluate the
quality of performance.
Comparing the ARF results to the data gathered from GF match analysis was completed
directly, using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, and indirectly, contrasting
Wilcoxon’s test results against each other. Twenty-six of the 30 key performance
indicators (KPIs) were significantly different (p < 0.05) from each other at team level,
suggesting that ARF and GF are inherently different sports and lack commonality. This
lack of commonality impacts upon recruitment of GF players to ARF, as a move away from
recruiting them could be advocated. At unit level, there were few KPIs that were significant
in both ARF and GF, while the percentage contribution for each unit was up to 30%
different. At position level, no GF position was more than 50% similar to ruckmen, while
each GF position only had, at most, one similar KPI to midfielders in ARF. Again, this
suggests the degree of commonality between the two sports is relatively low and
recruitment of GF players could potentially be suspended until more is known about the
subject area.
In conclusion, the sports of ARF and GF are inherently different and recruitment of GF
players to ARF should be undertaken with caution.
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DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)
SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
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