 Goalkeepers’ rating, evaluation and classification, according to the number of games, participation time and effectiveness at the Women’s European Handball Championship in 2018Dimitrios Hatzimanouil International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2019, vol. 19, issue 4, 595-607 Abstract: Nowadays there is a rapid growth in female handball but little research data. This study aimed to rate, evaluate and classify the goalkeepers according to the number of games, participation time and effectiveness of 33 female goalkeepers during Women’s European Championship (2018). The variables were the throws received by the goalkeepers and the saves they made. Based on criteria goalkeepers were categorised into three categories of performance: Class A, Class B and Class C. The method applied was descriptive and inferential statistics. The Kruskal–Wallis test was used to compare the differences among the three performance classes. The Mann–Whitney U test was applied to compare the differences among the three performance classes for the aforementioned variables. The final ranking of the 33 goalkeepers, differed from the official ranking. Kruskal–Wallis analysis revealed significant differences among the classes A, B and C (p Date: 2019 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:595-607 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2019.1642676 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport is currently edited by Peter O'Donoghue More articles in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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