Achieving teamwork in naturalistic sport settings: An exploratory qualitative study of informational resources supporting football players' activity when coordinating with others

Feigean, Mathieu; R’Kiouak, Mehdi; Bourbousson, Jérôme

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.06.008

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“…Third, within the framework of the IIT approach used, the players' attention is directed to one selected passing opportunity. It is known that athletes adopt different perspectives of the current game and that the narrow attentional focus induced by the approach used does not correspond to how players perceive all the various situations occurring throughout a competition (Feigean, R'Kiouak, Seiler, & Bourbousson, 2018). For example, analyzing how athletes perceive a selected passing opportunity is different from analyzing how they perceive that passing opportunity relative to other, simultaneously available passing opportunities.…”

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Exploring the effects of position-related information on the perception of scenario-based passing opportunities

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Köstinger

2020

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When football players are preparing to pass the ball, they consider contextual information provided by the current game situation to identify passing opportunities and choose the one that appears most beneficial. In the search for contextual information indicating such opportunities, a recent study analyzing the relationships between the position-related characteristics of game situations and athletes’ passing behavior reports that athletes generally prioritize passing options based on their team members’ areal proximity, the openness of the passing lanes leading to team members, and how closely the team members are covered by the opponents. While the found relationships indicate the positional features’ relevance to the athletes’ passing behavior, the importance of single bits of positional information and their integration into subjectively perceived passing opportunities remain unknown. The aim of this study is to begin closing this gap and analyze how multiple athletes weigh and integrate position-related information within their subjective process of perceiving passing opportunities. The study uses a 3x3x3 within-subject design. Twenty-one football players provided information about the perceived quality of passing opportunities within standardized game scenarios. The data were analyzed using an information integration theoretical approach combined with mixed linear modeling. The results reveal substantial interpersonal differences regarding the importance players attribute to specific positional information and how they integrate the positional information. Two recurring patterns of information integration were found. In most of the cases, the results indicate additive information integration. However, in some cases, the results indicate that players deviate from additive information integration when a single piece of positional information seemingly dominates the athletes’ perceptions. In the future, IIT approaches can be adopted to research designs using virtual reality, including other sets and ranges of contextual information, as well as other sports and sports situations in which the integration of information into subjective perceptions is of interest.

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Exploring the effects of position-related information on the perception of scenario-based passing opportunities

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2020

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“…Within such portions of data, we obtained 83 meaningful units describing the decision-making contents. Each unit of meaning had to be consistent with the action performed that the goalkeeper was commenting on (Feigean et al, 2018). Then, the researchers gathered together units of meaning that shared similarities in order to identify typical contents of goalkeeper's decisions (Kermarrec et al, 2014).…”

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Handball Goalkeeper Intuitive Decision-Making: A Naturalistic Case Study

Menn

Bossard

Travassos

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Journal of Human Kinetics

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Goalkeepers hold a key position for success in team sports competitions. They perform in dynamical contexts and are highly submitted to time pressure. The purpose of this naturalistic case study, therefore, was to explore how a handball expert goalkeeper deals with the uncertainty of the competition settings to make successful decisions. An individual self-confrontation interview was held with a goalkeeper while he watched duels with potential throwers in an official competition. A mixed method was used combining the first-person and third-person point of view. Verbal data were supplemented by observational data (distance measures between the goalkeeper and the potential thrower) in 83 short accounts of decision-making situations. Qualitative analysis resulted in 419 units of salient features, in three types of processes related to the Recognition-Primed Decision model, and in four micro-decisions. Non-parametrical statistical analysis indicated that there was a significant effect of distances between the potential thrower and the goalkeeper, on the micro-decision categories, but not on the recognition processes. These results provide insights into cognitive contents and processes an expert goalkeeper can use under uncertainty and time pressure. The mixed method furnishes a meaningful description and a subsequent understanding of expert performances in sport.

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“…In their empirical study, Feigean and colleagues investigated a football game naturalistic setting (Feigean et al, 2018b). Collecting audio-video recording and related verbalization data from every team member, analyses were focused on the nature of information that supported players' activity when coordinating with teammates.…”

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“…Premises of an alternative model can be drawn to understand how teamwork is achieved in naturalistic settings. While being in their infancy and needing further theorization, following statement can serve as starting points of such an alternative view of teamwork in sport that would be congruous with empirical evidences obtained in naturalistic settings of team behavior: (i) perfect moments of shared understanding and mutual awareness in action are very scarce, so that social encounter is made of “points of connection” between teammates that are episodic, local, and indirect; (ii) coordination is local/indirect, and alternates with moments of players global awareness (called holoptism, see Feigean et al, 2018b for details); (iii) players' exhibit shared sensitivity to their common environment, so that shared environment serves as a “glue” to put various “own worlds” together and to allow for cognitive entrainment within the team; (iv) while knowledge is useful during the game, its sharedness within the team is low (mainly driven by preferential interactions), the dynamics of knowledge's updating probably mattering more than the pool of knowledge shared prior to the game; (v) overt verbal communication is needed, even in expert teams, because shared understanding achievement within a team calls for online updating. Taken together, these statements open avenues for research that should be challenged in the future.…”

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Team Cognition in Sport: How Current Insights Into How Teamwork Is Achieved in Naturalistic Settings Can Lead to Simulation Studies

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Achieving teamwork in naturalistic sport settings: An exploratory qualitative study of informational resources supporting football players' activity when coordinating with others

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

Exploring the effects of position-related information on the perception of scenario-based passing opportunities

Exploring the effects of position-related information on the perception of scenario-based passing opportunities

Handball Goalkeeper Intuitive Decision-Making: A Naturalistic Case Study

Team Cognition in Sport: How Current Insights Into How Teamwork Is Achieved in Naturalistic Settings Can Lead to Simulation Studies

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