A comparison of different soft-computing techniques for the evaluation of handball goalkeepers.

The efficiency of handball goalkeepers is a good predictor of team ranking in tournaments, but despite this, very few studies have been carried out into the performance characteristics of elite goalkeepers. This paper provides the criteria for evaluating a handball goalkeeper and applies a variety o...

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Autores: Angulo Sánchez-Herrera, Eusebio, Romero Chicharro, Francisco Pascual, López Gómez, Julio Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/36607
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10578/36607
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Player evaluation
Multi-criteria decision-making
Metaheuristics
Handball goalkeepers
Statistical analysis
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Sumario:The efficiency of handball goalkeepers is a good predictor of team ranking in tournaments, but despite this, very few studies have been carried out into the performance characteristics of elite goalkeepers. This paper provides the criteria for evaluating a handball goalkeeper and applies a variety of soft-computingmethodologies for estimating their weights. More specifically, a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making method, a metaheuristic optimisation algorithm, and statistical and domain-knowledgebased methods were used to evaluate the actions of goalkeepers during the game. Computer experiments were performed for all the proposed methodologies, using data from the 2020 European Men’s Handball Championship, in order to estimate the weights of the indicators.