Table 2.

Pre-competition emotions for starters and non-starters for the three league games. Data are means (± SD).

	Game 1		Game 2		Game 3
	Starters	Non-starters	Starters	Non-starters	Starters	Non-starters
PSE	4.8 (1.3)	4.3 (0.86)	3.8 (1.3)	4.1 (0.96)	4.2 (1.5)	4.5 (0.6)
USE	1.6 (0.5)	2.7 (1.3)	1.9 (1.1)	2.1 (0.7)	2.2 (0.9)	2.5 (1.3)
PTE	5.4 (1.1)	4.7 (0.7)	4.5 (2.2)	4.2 (1.6)	5.1 (1.3)	4.9 (1.1)
UTE	1.7 (0.9)	2.2 (1.1)	1.1 (0.2)	1.6 (0.8)	1.5 (0.4)	1.8 (0.8)

Abbreviations: N: Starters, NS: non-starter players, PSE: Pleasant Somatic Emotions, USE: Unpleasant Somatic Emotions, PTE: Pleasant Transactional Emotions, UTE: Unpleasant Transactional Emotions