Purpose and goals:
The main purpose of the master thesis is to establish whether there are statistically typical differences in structural elements occurrence at the Champions League matches played by RK Celje in the season 2016/17. We have analysed 14 matches in 10-minute intervals. For frequency analysis of structural elements occurrence we chose 22 variables: 16 variables in the phase of attack and 6 in defence. Based on those variables, we formed 2 hypotheses.
Methodology:
Data was acquired at the official International Handball Federation (IHF) website and was processed in IBM SPSS 23. We calculated basic statistical characteristics, normality of distribution, homogeneity of variance and one-way analysis of variance for all parameters. Where sphericity was violated, we used Greenhouse-Geisser test. In other cases of violated assumptions, we used Friedman and Kruskal-Wallis test. Where characteristic differences in game efficiency among final results of matches were determined, individual differences were tested with tests of multiple comparisons. Where assumption about homogeneity of variance was confirmed, we used Tukey’s test, otherwise Games-Howell test was used.
Results:
Results have shown that there are characteristic differences among shot efficiency of the second half of the match, the number of exclusions in the second half, and in efficiency of defending shots from the distance in the second half. We have also determined that the number of passes at matches that ended as draws was higher and that there was a difference in effectiveness of fast breaks in the first and second halves when the match ended as a win or a draw.
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