What term can be used to summarise the methods that performers use to maximise their chances of winning?
Skills
Strategies
Techniques
Which of the following terms could be used to describe the nature of strategies?
Spontaneous
Improvised
Pre-arranged
Which technology allows coaches to judge tactics and pundits to evaluate games during the play?
Match analysis software
Pedometers
Biomechanics
Which of the following is a likely in-game analysis made by the BBC during an international rugby match?
Average age of the team
Line-outs won and lost
Changing temperature
Which of the following data streams might help Andy Murray to plan his service returning strategy against an opponent?
Serve direction percentage
Backhand winner percentage
Smash success percentage
Which of the following technologies is used in football and rugby to capture movement data with a camera from above the play?
Ball tracking software
Player cam
Performance analysis software
Ball tracking software is used in major tennis tournaments such as Wimbledon, but what is its primary role?
To support officials
To support players
To support spectators
Which technology was introduced to elite football to judge whether or not the ball had crossed the goal-line?
Opta
Hawk-Eye
Cyclops
Which of the following can be considered a negative effect of the use of ball tracking technology?
Fairer decisions
Support for the referees
Slows down pace of game
Which technology might have the effect of undermining the decisions of referees and umpires in sports such as tennis and cricket?
Personal player monitors