Author: Basturk, Ramazan

Source: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Volume 7, Number 2, May 2007 , pp. 106-116(11)

Publisher: University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

Abstract:

In this research, teams' quality, players' ability, judges' severity and bias of the judges - players interactions effects were investigated by analyzing of the Second Leg of 2006 Soccer World Cup Playoff Match between Turkey and Switzerland using Many-Facet Rasch Measurement. The ordinal data used in this research were from eight national newspapers, selected randomly among Turkish National Press, giving scores for each teams and soccer player's performance. According to the results, Turkish National Team was better in performance quality than the Swiss National Team. Nine players performed above average in Turkey whereas five Switzerland players' performance was above average. "Aksam" newspaper was the most severe and "Sabah" newspaper was the most lenient judge among the eight national presses and there were biases between the judges-players interaction.

Keywords: RASCH MEASUREMENT; MATCH ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOCCER

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-05-01

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