Movement Patterns and Match Statistics in the National Rugby League Women's (NRLW) Premiership.

ABSTRACT: As women's rugby league grows, the need for understanding the movement patterns of the sport is essential for coaches and sports scientists. The aims of the present study were to quantify the position-specific demographics, technical match statistics, and movement patterns of the National Rugby League Women's (NRLW) Premiership and to identify whether there was a change in the intensity of play as a function of game time played. A retrospective observational study was conducted utilizing global positioning system, demographic, and match statistics collected from 117 players from all NRLW clubs across the full 2018 and 2019 seasons and were compared between the ten positions using generalized linear mixed models. The GPS data were separated into absolute (i.e., total distance, high-speed ru

SUBMITTER: Newans T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904888 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature