Table 1.
Description of the dependent variables to measure decision making
| Skill execution and Level 1 Decision-making: Technical-tactical skill selection | Level 2 Decision-making: Tactical-context-adaptation |
|---|---|
| Attacker on-the-ball | Global-context-adaptation performance (Global efficiency during the whole game in adapting the actions to the tactical context) |
| Pass | |
| Shoot | |
| Moving with the ball | |
| Attacker off-the-ball | 1A1A. Tactical-context-adaptation performance to keep the ball contexts (efficiency in selecting actions to keep the ball when the tactical context is coded as “keeping-the-ball context”) |
| Get free | |
| Defender-on-the-ball | 2A2A. Tactical-context-adaptation performance to penetrating-the-defense contexts (efficiency in selecting actions to penetrate the defense when the tactical context is coded as “penetrating-the-defense”) |
| Mark (on-the-ball) | |
| Blocked shot | |
| Tackle | |
| Double team (on-the-ball) | |
| Defender-off-the-ball | 3A3A. Tactical-context-adaptation performance to attacking-the-goal contexts (efficiency in selecting actions to try to score when the tactical context is coded as “attacking-the-goal context”) |
| Mark (off-the-ball) | |
| Interception | |
| Double team (off-the-ball) | |
| Global variables | Spectator-player (a player is coded as “spectator player” when he or she does not show tactical intention nor involvement on the game) |
| Defense/attack | |
| On-the-ball / off-the-ball |