Exploring rugby coaches perception and implementation of performance analytics.

ABSTRACT: Professional coaches commonly rely on performance analysis and metrics to help make decisions regarding their practices, selection and tactics. However, few studies to date have explored coaches' perspectives of performance analysts successful integration into the high-performance environment. The aim of this study was to investigate coaches' philosophies surrounding performance analysis and how they perceived analysts could support and implement these approaches into coaching practices and match preparation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five professional elite level Rugby Union coaches to investigate their perceptions of performance analysis, and the contribution of performance analysts to the high-performance environment. Results revealed three main dimensions, includin

SUBMITTER: Callinan MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9873156 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature