“…Therefore, some studies have used different methods to evaluate and compare the quality of teams and their opponents, such as multi-criteria assessing methods like TOPSIS and AHP (Dadelo, Turskis, Zavadskas, & Dadeliene, 2014;Kiani Mavi, Kiani Mavi, & Kiani, 2012) or cluster analysis (Marcelino, Mesquita, & Sampaio, 2011;Sampaio, Drinkwater, et al, 2010). Besides, teams' quality has either been subjectively categorised as "successful" or "unsuccessful" according to their standings or winning percentage within a particular tournament (Gómez, Ibáñez, Parejo, & Furley, 2017;Ibáñez et al, 2008;Pollard & Gómez, 2007;Sampaio, Ibáñez, Lorenzo, & Gómez, 2006) or classified as "strong" or "weak" and "top half " or "bottom half " based on symmetric division of end-of-season classification (Doğan, Işik, & Ersöz, 2016;Sampaio, Lago, Casais, & Leite, 2010). However, there is less available research about exploring the difference of technical and physical performances of players according to the specific position between different levels of teams.…”