Work Rate Analysis Examining Positional Demands in University Soccer
Author
Jenkins, David
Date
2014Type
Thesis
Publisher
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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The purpose of this study was to examine 20 different collegiate/amateur players to
test for a difference in work rate levels in 5 different positional roles. As well as this
an assessment of intermittent nature at this level was also a topic of study. The
twenty different players examined included a majority 17 university standard players
from the BUCS championships but also three players from high standard amateur
Welsh leagues. The positional categories were split up into five, namely, central
defenders, wide defenders, central midfielders, wide midfielders and forwards. Voice
recordings were used to describe the performance of each individual player, this
data was then coded in a software called DOSbox. As two observers were used a
reliability match was arranged and using Altman’s (1991) guidelines of Kappa an
acceptable ‘moderate’ strength of agreement was found. After a Shapiro-Wilkes test
found numerous significant differences to normality (p.<0.05) suggesting a one way
ANOVA test would be appropriate to compare the different positions. Numerous
different findings were found which included a drop in high intensity outputs from the
first half to the second half (9.2±1.6 to 8.4±1.6) as well as the different frequencies
and durations of each variable in each position. The conclusions drawn from this
result make different suggestions for improvements for example central midfielders
could benefit from interval training.
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DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)
SPORT COACHING
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