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Assessing Individual Performance in Team Sports: A New Method Developed in Youth Volleyball.

Elisa Bisagno^1,2, Sergio Morra², Martina Basciano²

¹Department of Education and Human Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 42121 Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology

|January 20, 2021

Summary

Developing a reliable individual performance measure for youth volleyball is crucial. This new assessment tool evaluates every athlete

Keywords:

individual performance volleyball players youth sport

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Background:

Assessing individual performance in team sports presents challenges, particularly in youth athletics.
Existing methods may lack ecological validity or fail to capture the full scope of an athlete's contribution.
A need exists for a comprehensive and reliable individual performance metric in youth team sports.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a novel, ecologically valid individual performance assessment measure for youth volleyball.
To ensure the measure accounts for all athlete actions while remaining practical for use in real game scenarios.
To establish the reliability and validity of this new performance metric.

Main Methods:

Video-recording of at least three games per player for 114 youth volleyball athletes.
Evaluation of individual performance by two independent expert observers, scoring every athlete gesture.
Adjustment of individual scores based on team performance (set results) and player participation time.

Main Results:

The developed individual performance measure demonstrated high interrater reliability (r = .841, p < .001).
The measure showed a significant positive correlation with the athletes' level of experience (r = .173, p < .05).
The adjusted scores effectively controlled for team performance and participation levels.

Conclusions:

The devised individual assessment measure is a reliable tool for evaluating youth volleyball player performance.
This metric offers an ecologically valid approach to understanding individual contributions within a team context.
The findings support the use of this measure for further research into individual differences and team sports performance.