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Production Functions Of Ncaa Men And Women Water Polo Matches, Joey Gullikson, Lewis R. Gale, John Mayberry, Lara Killick, John Kim
Production Functions Of Ncaa Men And Women Water Polo Matches, Joey Gullikson, Lewis R. Gale, John Mayberry, Lara Killick, John Kim
College of the Pacific Faculty Articles
Previous research has adapted the use of economic production functions to estimate the scoring production of teams in professional sports. Most of these studies have focused on professional male team sports, most notably, US baseball, basketball, and association football. This study adds to the literature by utilizing a new and distinctive data set of shooting statistics from 88 men’s and 38 women’s NCAA water polo contests to estimate production functions for United States’ collegiate water polo games and identify the most important variables for predicting margin of victory in such competitions. The results show that shots on goal, average shot …
Measures Of Tactical Efficiency In Water Polo, James Graham, John Mayberry
Measures Of Tactical Efficiency In Water Polo, James Graham, John Mayberry
College of the Pacific Faculty Articles
We present a notational analysis of offensive tactics commonly employed in elite men's water polo and address three questions related to this objective: which tactics are most effective?, which tactical performance indicators best classify the winning team?, and how accurate are predictive models based on these performance indicators? We define a new statistic, Efficiency Rating, which quantifies the importance of a tactic via a weighted average of direct and indirect goals generated by its use. By this measure, direct shot is the most efficient even strategy despite being employed far less frequently than centre or perimeter tactics. We address our …