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Relations among variables of shooting for a goal and outcomes of the 2000 Men's Handball Championship matches

The goal of research was to determine the relationship between variables of shooting for a goal and the final outcome of handball match. The data were collected from 38 games of the 2000 Men's European Championship, played in Zagreb and Rijeka. Twelve indicators of scoring efficiency, registrated for each national team, constituded the sample of manifest variables, whereas the criterion variable was a binary outcome of match-victory or defeat. the basic statistical procedures and regression analysis were used. Almost half of all the shots performed (44.61%) were executed from the back-court players' positions (field shots). The winning teams were considerably more efficient in fields shot and in 7m throws than the defeated ones-(43.20%) and (76.53%) as compared to (32.52%) and (65.76), respectively. The statistically significant multiple correlation of.71 means that the predictor variables share 50% of common variance with the final results of the observed matches. The winning teams had more successful field shots, 6m-centre shots and wing shots, and fewer unsuccessful 6m-centre and field shots and 7m throws. Scorring efficiecy from a distance and from the 6m line differentiates the successful teams(winners) from the unsuccessful (defeated) ones.

handball; scoring efficiency; match outcome; men

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