ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Water polo coaches believe they gain an advantage by calling time-out before playing power-play, but is that really true?
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Introduction: The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of time-out on power-play outcomes both in elite senior and youth matches and in relation to final (margin of victory, MoV) and current (margin of advantage, MoA) match scores (i.e., winning in unbalanced games, MW; winning-draw-losing in close games, W-D-L; losing in unbalanced games, ML). Materials and methods: A total of 97 (seniors, Results: The results reported that both senior and youth levels have been characterized by better power-play outcomes without time-out (higher goals scored: senior, Discussion: Therefore, the present study demonstrated that time-out tends to limit the success of the following power-play action and that MoV and MoA approaches do not overlap. As a consequence, coaches could benefit from these findings by being more aware of the actual time-out consequences on the following power-play as well as their defensive potentialities when the opponents call time-out.
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