Aims and objectives: The main research purpose and objective of the Master's thesis has been to analyse all the matches played in the men’s handball tournament by using the collected data and to determine differences in some playing efficiency indicators between winning, losing and drawing teams at the 2016 Olympic Games – Men’s tournament – in Rio de Janeiro. In this way, we want to explain the significant differences in the occurrence of various playing parameters between the most and least successful teams.
Methodology: 38 matches (76 final results) were included in the sample of analysed matches, of which 36 (47.4%) were winning teams and just as many (36) losing teams (47.4%). Two matches (5.3%) ended in a tie. Moreover, we defined 17 variables that represented the activities of offence and defence and developed 17 hypotheses. All data were obtained from the official website of the International Handball Federation (IHF) and were processed by using a computer program for statistical analysis (SPSS). For all parameters we calculated basic statistical characteristics, normal distribution, homogeneity of variance and one-way analysis of variance. For all the parameters that do not satisfy the assumption of the normal distribution and homogeneity of variance we used the Brown-Forsythe test. By using the LSD Post-Hoc test, we found among which subgroups the statistically significant differences occur. Using these calculations, we determined the differences between the winning, losing and drawing teams.
Findings: The results showed that there are statistically significant differences between the winning, losing and drawing teams in the following parameters: total number of goals scored, number of goals scored in counterattack, number of goals scored in front of the 6-meter goal line, number of goals scored in front of the 9-meter goal line and blocked shots.
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