Objective data on performance of game players provide a useful basis for monitoring the contributions of individuals towards the team's collective efforts. Notation analysis and motion analysis are different methods of recording patterns of play‐ and work‐rate of players, respectively. These types of observations yield profiles from which sport‐specific tests may be designed. Examples are given from soccer, rugby football, and field hockey. The observations are also useful in the design of laboratory‐based sports‐specific protocols for the design of experimental work. With the rapidly evolving technologies of performance analysis, this area of work is likely to increase in future.
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