The purpose of the master's thesis was to conduct an analysis of the effectiveness of attacking strategies during goalkeeper substitutions with a field player in the 2021 Handball World Championship. The goal was to collect official data from matches involving the top 24 teams and statistically analyse them. The objective was to explore differences in the occurrence of selected gaming performance variables during goalkeeper substitutions with a field player in attack phase situations 6:6 and 7:6 without a goalkeeper, comparing winners and losers. Additionally, a comparison was made between the game scenarios of 6:6 without a goalkeeper and 7:6 without a goalkeeper in attack phase situations.
Data used in the analysis were obtained through statistical information from individual handball matches available on the IHF website. The study encompassed six variables (number of attacks, number of shots, number of goals, number of missed shots, number of technical errors, and number of goals conceded), which were analysed in three different situations (attacking 6:6 without a goalkeeper, play in offense 7:6 without a goalkeeper, and a comparison between play in offense in 6:6 and 7:6 without a goalkeeper). Subsequently, 18 null hypotheses were formulated, and the data were processed using the statistical software package SPSS.
For descriptive variables, the frequency distribution was calculated, while numerical variables had their means and standard deviations computed. Numerical variables were separately assessed based on the type of game (6:6 without a goalkeeper or 7:6 without a goalkeeper) to check for normal distribution (Shapiro-Wilk test) and homogeneity of variances (Levene's test) among winning and losing teams. Differences in the performance of winning and losing teams during play in offense 6:6 or 7:6 without a goalkeeper were examined using independent samples t-test or Mann-Whitney test in case of violated assumptions. Furthermore, differences in performance between play in offense 6:6 and 7:6 without a goalkeeper were assessed using dependent samples t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test in case of violated assumptions.
The results indicated statistically significant differences only in the number of missed shots during the play in offense 6:6 without a goalkeeper scenario. Winners in play in offense 6:6 statistically typically miss fewer shots. In the play on offense 7:6 without a goalkeeper scenario, significant differences were observed in the number of attacks, number of missed shots, number of technical errors, and number of goals conceded. Losers in play in offense 7:6 statistically typically miss more shots, commit more technical fouls and concede more goals. The comparison between play in offense 6:6 without a goalkeeper and 7:6 without a goalkeeper revealed statistically significant differences across all variables, higher values occurred when play in offense 6:6 without a goalkeeper.
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