Abstract
The use of instruments for the evaluation of a player’s procedural tactical knowledge (PTK) in sociomotor sports, such as football, is a line of research of growing interest since it allows a pertinent description of the player’s football competence. The aim of this study is to configure and validate an ad-hoc observational tool that allows evaluating the player’s PTK, understood as football competence, from the observation, coding and recording of the roles, the actions of the acquired subroles and the operational and specific principles of football in the attack and defense phases. Based on the Delphi method, a field format coding instrument was designed and validated where each criterion is a system of categories, exhaustive and mutually exclusive. The results showed excellent content validity (9.02 out of 10), and high values of intra-observer stability (k = 0.747) and inter-observer agreement (k = 0.665). Generalizability analysis showed an excellent reliability (G = 0.99). Additionally, the construct validity of the tool was calculated through a small-sided game Gk + 4v4 + Gk, using two independent samples: semi-professional and amateur players. The results reflected significant differences (α < 0.05) between both samples in the variables total score, offensive score and defensive score. Therefore, this study provides a valid and reliable instrument that allows data collection in a rigorous and pertinent way, as well as their analysis and evaluation in attack and defense according to the roles of the players and based on the motor behaviors that they perform using the subroles that they acquired, associated with the technical dimension, along with the principles that they develop in parallel, in support of the tactical dimension.
Highlights
Published: 15 June 2021The construction of instruments for the evaluation of the tactical knowledge of the players in sociomotor sports [1], as is the case of football, is a line of research of increasing interest due to the importance that tactic dimension assumes in training and performance [2].In this sense, the instruments proposed for the tactical evaluation of the player have been developed and classified into two perspectives according to the type of tactical knowledge that has been evaluated
To calculate the Content Validity Coefficient [50], the averages of the two factors used with the expert groups were calculated, following the Delphi methodology: the degree of agreement (8.74 out of 10) which reflects the clarity of the language, and the degree of adequacy (9.3 out of 10) which represents practical and theoretical relevance
Based on the record of the motor behaviors developed by the player, FOCOS allows evaluating their performance based on several criteria: the roles, the own actions of the acquired subroles, the operational principles and the specific principles
Summary
Published: 15 June 2021The construction of instruments for the evaluation of the tactical knowledge of the players in sociomotor sports [1], as is the case of football, is a line of research of increasing interest due to the importance that tactic dimension assumes in training and performance [2].In this sense, the instruments proposed for the tactical evaluation of the player have been developed and classified into two perspectives according to the type of tactical knowledge that has been evaluated. The construction of instruments for the evaluation of the tactical knowledge of the players in sociomotor sports [1], as is the case of football, is a line of research of increasing interest due to the importance that tactic dimension assumes in training and performance [2]. The perspective of the procedural tactical knowledge (PTK) is intimately linked to the particular motor action [4,5,6], that is, “to know how to do” The latter, the tactical dimension of behavior, is decisive in a sport like football, with a very complex logic due to its high unpredictability and randomness of events [7], and refers to the player’s performance in the context of the game [8] or to football competence [9]. From the observational methodology [15], there is a wide variety
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