TY - JOUR
T1 - Seemingly Uninvolved Players’ Impact on Assistant Referees’ Offside Decisions
AU - Noël, Benjamin
AU - Klatt, Stefanie
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Most studies on offside decision making in soccer have not addressed rather simplistic situational probabilities like the number of players involved in an offside situation. In three studies (one observational and two experimental), the authors tried to assess whether the number of players close to the offside situation can predict the quality of offside decision making. In all three studies, they found that the presence of additional players negatively affected the percentage of correct decisions. The exact relationship between the number of players and the decrease in decision-making performance differed between the studies, though. Importantly, there was a negative influence of the number of players on decision-making quality in Studies 2 and 3, even though the authors tried to add players clearly farther away from the offside line than the relevant pair of players. This points to a crowding effect as a potential explanation for why decision-making quality decreases with an increasing number of players.
AB - Most studies on offside decision making in soccer have not addressed rather simplistic situational probabilities like the number of players involved in an offside situation. In three studies (one observational and two experimental), the authors tried to assess whether the number of players close to the offside situation can predict the quality of offside decision making. In all three studies, they found that the presence of additional players negatively affected the percentage of correct decisions. The exact relationship between the number of players and the decrease in decision-making performance differed between the studies, though. Importantly, there was a negative influence of the number of players on decision-making quality in Studies 2 and 3, even though the authors tried to add players clearly farther away from the offside line than the relevant pair of players. This points to a crowding effect as a potential explanation for why decision-making quality decreases with an increasing number of players.
KW - crowding
KW - object recognition
KW - perceptual cognitive skills
KW - soccer
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/13740b18-f831-3e88-baed-46ece8058e57/
U2 - 10.1123/jsep.2020-0132
DO - 10.1123/jsep.2020-0132
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 43
SP - 259
EP - 267
JO - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 3
ER -