Which of the following is not outlined as a benefit of using key performance indicators (KPIs)?

Informing training and practice decisions

Track the ongoing progress of an athlete or team towards performance goals

Predicting competition performance

Winning a league, tournament, or other championship is an illustration of what measure?

Key Performance Indicator

Performance objective

Ongoing process tracker

Due to a lack of universal agreement on terminology, many definitions in sports science are proposed. Which of the following is not a definition of performance indicator?

A selection, or combination, of action variables that aims to define some or all aspects of a performance

A statistical action that can be used to evaluate teams and individual athletes

Quantifiable measures of the execution of behaviors and processes that create the environments, cultures, and conditions for successful performance outcomes

Using strength and maximal power as discriminators of playing level in rugby league, they only accounted for _______ of the variation in playing level.

< 10%

12 – 17%

20 – 23%

By using vertical force production as a KPI, the performance staff may be overlooking _________ limiting the transference of gym-based strength to on-field performance.

Rate of force development

Maximal strength

Horizontal force production

In some cases, using total distance covered as a KPI has led to __________.

Some athletes running around during breaks in play to simply increase their distance covered

A detriment of technique, and potentially safety

Unhealthy weight loss behaviors

One key factor distinguishing “super-elite” athletes from “elite” athletes in a multidisciplinary developmental biography study was __________.

A focus on KPIs

A joint focus on mastery and outcome goals

A strong focus on outcome goals

All athletes being on time for all training sessions is an applied example of which ongoing process tracking characteristic?

Represent and engage all key stakeholders

Acknowledge the complex and nonlinear nature of performance

Contextual

In team sports, a ________ climate created by coaches and performance staff is a stronger predictor of player performance than individual psychological factors such as mental toughness and grit

Perceived mastery

Perceived autonomy

Motivational

A recent meta-analysis concluded that using ________ goals had a much larger positive effect on athlete performance.

Outcome

Process

Performance