Passing decisions in football: introducing an empirical approach to estimating the effects of perceptual information and associative knowledge

Steiner, Silvan (2018). Passing decisions in football: introducing an empirical approach to estimating the effects of perceptual information and associative knowledge. Frontiers in psychology, 9 Frontiers Research Foundation 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00361

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The importance of various information sources in decision-making in interactive team
sports is debated. While some highlight the role of the perceptual information provided
by the current game context, others point to the role of knowledge-based information
that athletes have regarding their team environment. Recently, an integrative perspective
considering the simultaneous involvement of both of these information sources in
decision-making in interactive team sports has been presented. In a theoretical
example concerning passing decisions, the simultaneous involvement of perceptual
and knowledge-based information has been illustrated. However, no precast method
of determining the contribution of these two information sources empirically has been
provided. The aim of this article is to bridge this gap and present a statistical approach to
estimating the effects of perceptual information and associative knowledge on passing
decisions. To this end, a sample dataset of scenario-based passing decisions is analyzed.
This article shows how the effects of perceivable team positionings and athletes’
knowledge about their fellow team members on passing decisions can be estimated.
Ways of transfering this approach to real-world situations and implications for future
research using more representative designs are presented.

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