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. 2008 Aug;40(3):898-905.
doi: 10.3758/brm.40.3.898.

The measuring and observation tool in sports

Julen Castellano  1 , Abigail Perea, Lorea Alday, Antonio Hernández Mendo
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The measuring and observation tool in sports

Julen Castellano et al. Behav Res Methods. 2008 Aug.

Abstract

The Measuring and Observation Tool in Sports (MOTS) has been designed to facilitate the systematic observation of sports. It is a user-friendly tool developed to help researchers observe, codify, register, and analyze any situation that occurs in a natural or habitual context in which behaviors are spontaneous. Users can define up to 12 mutually exclusive code sets and up to 120 different behaviors to facilitate data collection and can work with any observational data type: event sequences, event sequences over time, state sequences, interval sequences, or multievent sequences. MOTS plays digital video files, which allows for video and taxonomic tools to be displayed on the screen at the same time. The observations are registered automatically, including the time and duration of the event, in frames and seconds simultaneously. Furthermore, the data analysis feature allows the user to calculate the percentage of intervals, the frequency distributions, and the conditional probabilities.

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