Variables and categories used in the football incident analysis
| κ | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variables and categories | Inter | Intra |
| Results from interobserver and intraobserver analysis are shown in the right hand columns. | ||
| Ball possession | 0.85 | 1.00 |
| Attack: a team is in possession, i.e. with ball control and necessary space and time for decision possibilities with the ball | ||
| Defence: the opposing team is in possession, i.e. with ball control and necessary space and time for decision possibilities with the ball | ||
| Attack type | 0.67 | 0.88 |
| Set plays: attacks that start by a set play and finish while players are still in original grouping (free kick, throw in, corner kick, goal kick, penalty kick, kick off, and drop) | ||
| Breakdowns: attacks that start by winning the ball in play and maintaining and/or increasing imbalance in opponent defence throughout the attack | ||
| Long attacks: attacks that start by winning the ball in play or a set play and progress without taking advantage of opponent’s imbalance | ||
| Long attacks, including long pass: long attacks with at least one pass that covers a minimum of one third of the playing field, i.e. about 35 m or more (includes goal kicks and clearance) | ||
| Positioning, i.e. a player’s position in relation to the immediate opponent | 0.80 | 0.83 |
| One on one situation: one against one (face to face, back to face, different sideways positions) | ||
| Not one on one situation: without involving an opponent player or when one against two or more players | ||
| Team action before injury risk incident, i.e. type of passing actions by the attacking team before injury risk incident | 0.74 | 0.93 |
| Long pass: long pass forwards (35 m or more), long pass from goalkeeper, long clearance, long pass across the field | ||
| Short pass: short pass forwards, short pass backwards, wall pass, short pass from goalkeeper | ||
| Flick: flick using either foot or head | ||
| Cross: a pass from side corridor into the score box | ||
| Deflection: unintentional pass from fellow or opponent player | ||
| Localisation on the field, i.e. zones on the playing field (fig 1) | 0.84 | 0.84 |
| Defensive third: the defending third of the playing field | ||
| Midfield zone 1: the first half of the middle third of the playing field | ||
| Midfield zone 2: the second half of the middle third of the playing field | ||
| Attacking third: the attacking third of the playing field | ||
| Score box: prolongation of the penalty area to half line between 16 m line and the nearest midfield zone | ||
| Attack effectiveness | 0.88 | 1.00 |
| Effective attack: attack that ends up with shooting attempt and shot off target, shot on target, or goal | ||
| Non-effective attack: attack that ends up with none of the above | ||
| Ball winning situations | 0.84 | 0.94 |
| At the moment of ball winning: attempting to regain possession (1st defender) | ||
| After ball winning (up to 5 s): immediately after regaining possession (1st attacker) | ||
| After 2nd ball: regaining ball after deflection from opponent player (1st attacker) | ||
| Not ball winning situations: attempting to maintain possession (1st attacker) and incidents away from the ball | ||
| Degree of balance in opponents’ defence | 0.63 | 0.88 |
| Good balance: Both numerical (i.e. equal or greater number of opponents on the right side of the ball) and positional balance (i.e. pressing, covering and marking defending tasks) are achieved | ||
| Average balance: either numerical or positional balance is achieved | ||
| Poor balance: neither numerical nor positional balance are achieved | ||
| Player role | 0.77 | 0.97 |
| 1st defender: pressing defending player on the right side of the ball | ||
| Other defender: all the remaining players of the defending team | ||
| 1st attacker: player with the ball on the attacking team | ||
| Other attacker: all the remaining players of the attacking team | ||
| Player position, i.e. static positions of players on the field based on playing formations | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| (Goalkeeper, fullback, central defender, wing midfielder, inside midfielder, central midfielder, striker) | ||
| Type of individual action with the ball | 0.80 | 0.89 |
| Dribbling (including moving with the ball), heading, receiving the ball, screening tackling, turning, flicking (using foot or head), passing, goalkeeper action, shooting, blocking, clearing, ball to body accident, unclear action and no action with the ball | ||
| Degree of individual ball control | 0.83 | 0.87 |
| High level of control: in control of the ball after receiving it | ||
| Low level of control: not in control of the ball | ||
| Player’s movement direction i.e. movement direction in relation to the opponent’s goal (forward, sideward, backward, no movement) | 0.78 | 0.90 |
| Player’s movement intensity | 0.81 | 0.82 |
| High intensity: including sprinting and moderate intensity running | ||
| Low intensity: including jogging, walking and standing | ||
| Duel type | 0.85 | 0.88 |
| In duel: | ||
| - Heading duel-active (heading actively) and heading duel-passive (unaware of heading duel or attention towards other action with the ball) | ||
| - Tackling duel-active (tackling actively) and tackling duel-passive (unaware of tackling duel or attention towards other action with the ball) | ||
| - Screening duel-active (screening actively) and screening duel-passive (unaware of screening duel or attention towards other action with the ball) | ||
| - Running duel and other (pushing, kicking, obstruction, stepping, collision) | ||
| Not in duel: without involving opponent player(s) | ||
| Attention | 0.96 | 0.96 |
| Attention towards primary duellist: player concentrates on immediate opponent | ||
| Attention towards the ball: player concentrates on the ball; | ||
| - On the ground (ball in contact with the playing surface) | ||
| - In the air (ball at head height and upwards) | ||
| - Ball between head height and playing surface | ||
| Attention towards team mate | ||
| - Near (in the vicinity of the ball) | ||
| - Further away (not in the vicinity of the ball) | ||
| Tackling type | 0.79 | 0.88 |
| Being tackled: involving a player that is being tackled by the opponent (from front, from side, from back) | ||
| Not being tackled: involving attacking player that is not being tackled | ||
| Tackling: involving a player that is tackling the opponent (from front, from side, from back) | ||
| Not tackling: involving defending player that is not tackling | ||
| Type of incident risk action | 0.80 | 0.94 |
| Against 1st attacker towards “back room”: attempt to stop a player with the ball from penetrating a space behind the last defender (tackling, obstruction, holding) | ||
| Against 1st attacker elsewhere | ||
| Against 1st defender | ||
| Action away from the ball | ||
| Actions against other players (2nd and 3rd attackers and defenders) | ||
| Referee’s decision | 0.78 | 0.78 |
| Free kick for | ||
| Free kick against | ||
| Yellow card | ||
| Red card | ||
| No foul called | ||