- Title
- Behind enemy lines: Expressing locomotor movements of athletes in the National Rugby League Women’s (NRLW) competition relative to opposition data
- Creator
- Minahan, Clare; Thornton, Heidi R.; Bellinger, Phillip; Ward, Jonathan; Lovell, Dale; Buxton, Simon; Newans, Tim
- Relation
- Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 41, Issue 19, p. 1762-1767
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2023.2296736
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- We provide a novel analysis of the locomotor movements of athletes in the National Rugby League Women’s (NRLW) competition by presenting the data of opposing teams expressed as a relative (%) difference and explore the association with match outcome. 117 rugby league athletes from the four NRLW clubs participated in this study. Mean speed (m·min−1), mean high-speed running (>12 km·h−1; m·min−1), and mean acceleration (m·s−2) were measured in 12 matches (370 individual match files) using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Individual GNSS-derived data from each match-half were summed across each team and the association with total points and the points differential in each match-half was determined using linear mixed models. Greater high-speed running and lower mean acceleration were associated with more points being scored. A greater relative difference in mean high-speed running between competing teams was associated with a higher points differential. That is, if a team completed 10% more high-speed running than their opposition, they were likely to score an average of 3.2 points more during a given match-half. This unique analysis of GNSS-derived data may assist coaches and performance support staff to interpret the locomotor movements of female rugby league players with the appropriate considerations for the opposition team.
- Subject
- time-motion analysis; external load; team sports; GPS analysis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1504467
- Identifier
- uon:55526
- Identifier
- ISSN:0264-0414
- Rights
- x
- Language
- eng
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