Differences in goals, saves, exclusions, and cards between winners and losers based on category and gender in young handball players
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Winners, losers, performance analysis, goalkeeper, aggressionAbstract
The objectives of the present study were: (i) to compare handball game-related statistics by match result (winning and losing teams) based on category [Under 18 (U18) and Under 16 (U16) years old] and sex (males and females), and (ii) to determine whether there are differences in handball game-related statistics based on category (U18 and U16) and sex (males and females). One thousand eight hundred seventy-three matches were analysed, (1034 male, 839 female) from the categories (U18 and U16) played in the 2022/23 and 2023/24 Icelandic League for both sexes were analysed. The dependent variables in the study are match outcome (winning/losing teams), category (U18 and U16), and sex (male and female), while the independent variables are the game-related statistics: goals, saves, two-minute exclusions, yellow and red cards. Basic statistical descriptors (mean and standard deviation) were calculated for each game-related statistic by match outcome (winning and losing teams) and by category and sex. Since normality was not met for any of the analyzed variables, the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test was applied. The number of goals and saves differentiated winning and losing teams, both for the overall sample and based on category and sex; clear differences were observed based on category; males achieved a higher number of goals and saves than females, while also displaying greater extralegal aggression (2-minute exclusions, yellow cards, and red cards).
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