Purpose and goals: The purpose of this Master Thesis is to figure out the differences in play efficiency between winners, losers and those teams that ended their game at Men's Handball World Championship 2017 with a tie. The goal was to collect official data of all the matches and to statistically analyse it. With the help of end results, we wanted to show, in which parameters of play efficiency can we get statistically significant differences among the tested groups. With the help of our results, we can figure out, which are the main characteristics of differences among more and less successful teams.
Methodology: We collected the data of all the played games with the help of International Handball Federation’s website and then we analysed it. Our sample consisted of 84 championship matches, which means 168 results of all the games that were played at the World Championship in 2017. Based on the end results, we divided the teams into winners, losers and the teams that ended their game with a tie. Among those there were 81 winners (48,2 %), 81 losers (48,2 %) and six teams (3,6 %) that ended their match with a tie. With the help of official statistics we chose 17 variables and divided them into parameters that were connected with offence activities and those that were connected with defence activities. With the help of chosen parameters we formed a few hypothesis that we later on confirmed or rejected. We analysed the data using computer statistics software program (SPSS) – calculated all the parameters’ basic statistical characteristics and test statistics. Based on the results of normality distribution test and homogeneity of variance, we continued with the ANOVA and Brown-Forsythe test, with the help of which we wanted to figure out the differences among the groups. In case of parameters, in which we found statistically significant differences, we wanted to determine, with the help of the LSD post hoc test, in what subgroups exactly does this occur. Using test statistics, we also determined the play efficiency among winners, losers and those teams that ended their matches with a tie.
Findings: We found out statistically significant differences between winners, losers and those teams that ended their matches with a tie among the following parameters: the total number of shots, the total number of scored goals, the number of goals from the six meter line, the number of goals from the wing position, the number of goals made from the counterattack, the number of assists, the number of technical errors, the number of taken balls, the number of blocked shots and the number of goalkeeper’s defences.
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