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Table 1 Basic information of the included assessment tools

From: Tools for assessing ball skills based on game scenarios: a systematic review and related insights

Included tools

Tools

Assessable sports

Content of the assessment

Grehaigne et al. [14], 1997

TSAP

Team sports such as basketball, football, volleyball

Assess ball-handling skills performance in terms of possession (scrambling for the ball, catching the ball), handling the ball (threatening passes, missed passes, routine passes, hitting the target)

Oslin et al. [24], 1998

GPAI

Any ball sports

Assess sport skills performance in terms of return to position, positional adjustments, sound decision making, skill execution, supporting receivers, cover fills, and staredown defense

Roth et al. [25], 2002

KORA

Football

Assess offensive tactical performance in terms of position and move (getting in the right place at the right time) and identifying openings (recognizing and capitalizing on scoring opportunities)

Collet et al. [16], 2011

IAD-VB

Volleyball

Assess skills performance in terms of adjustment, decisions and effectiveness of execution in serving, receiving, matting, dinking and blocking

Costa et al. [17], 2011

FUT-SAT

Football

A total of 76 micro-observed variables were assessed in terms of macro-observed categories of tactical principles, operational locations, and operational outcomes, respectively, as well as macro-outcomes that included tactical performance, tactical actions, percentage of errors, and operational locations

Chen et al. [18], 2013

BOGPI

Basketball

Assesses offensive performance in terms of decisions, supports, and skills execution on ball-handling, passing, shooting, etc

García López et al. [19], 2013

GPET

Football

Assess offensive performance in terms of decisions, supports, and skills execution for possession, passing, shooting, support, and running

Folle et al. [26], 2014

IAD-BB

Basketball

Assess offensive performance in terms of adaptation, decisions, and effectiveness of execution in passing, receiving, dribbling, shooting, passing and cutting, and offensive rebounding, as well as defensive performance in terms of marking without the ball, marking with the ball, defensive rebounding, and blocking at the basket

Greco et al. [20], 2015

TCTP: OE

Collective sports such as basketball, football and handball

Assess offensive performance in terms of players with the ball actively handling the ball and not losing possession after handling the ball, and players without the ball actively running for the ball or opening up space for the offense; assess defensive performance in terms of actively blocking the offensive players or assisting teammates in blocking the offense

Otero-Saborido et al. [21], 2015

TALIS

Invasive gaming sports such as basketball and football

Assess offensive performance in terms of trajectory relative to the ball carrier, movement speed, and the impact of the density of teammates and opponents in the space after movement

Pérez-Morales et al. [27], 2017

PTKT: Bb

Basketball

Assess offensive performance in terms of dribbling to create space, creating space to shoot, moving into space to catch the ball, and covering the offense after the pass, covering the offense without the ball, and covering the ball out of bounds; and assess defensive performance in terms of blocking the drive, blocking the shot, and blocking the pass, as well as supporting teammates, cross-court defense, and under-the-basket defense

Torres-Luque et al. [28], 2018

OITTAST

Tennis

Assess tennis skills performance in terms of order of strokes per round, type of serve, landing, and effect, type of shot, landing, and effect

Saad et al. [22], 2019

IAD-Futsal

Five-a-side football

Assess 12 technical and tactical observable variables for offense and defense in terms of adaptation, decisions, and effectiveness dimensions

Ibáñez et al. [23], 2019

BALPAI

Basketball

Assess offensive performance in terms of participation, decisions, skills execution of technical, and effectiveness of execution for dribbling, shooting, passing, receiving, pass-checking, occupying openings, and offensive rebounding, and defensive performance in terms of defending with the ball, defending without the ball, defending against assists, and defending against rebounds

García-Ceberino et al. [29], 2020

IMLPFoot

Football

Assess offensive performance in terms of decisions, skills execution, and effectiveness of execution in terms of dribbling, passing, shooting, ball control, passing coordination, and running without the ball, and defensive performance in terms of marking without the ball, marking with the ball, and assisting the defense

Sánchez-López et al. [15], 2021

FOCOS

Football

Assess football performance based on 6 analytical steps of play stages, role types, role actions, operational principles, specific principles, and action outcomes, comprising a total of 38 micro-observed variables

  1. Abbreviations: TSAP Performance Assessment in Team Sports, GPAI Game Performance Assessment Instrument, KORAProcedural tactical knowledge test, IAD-VB Instrumento de Avaliação do Desempenho Técnico-tático do Voleibol, FUT-SAT Sistema de avaliação táctica no Futebol, BOGPI Basketball Offensive Game Performance Instrument, GPET Game Performance Evaluation Tool, IAD-BB Instrumento de avaliação do desempenho técnico-tático individual no basquetebol, TCTP:OE Teste de Conhecimento Tático Processual—Orientação Esportiva, TALIS Tool for Assessment and Learning of an Invasion Situation, PTKT:Bb Procedural Tactical Knowledge Test for Basketball, OITTAST Observational Instrument for the Technical-Tactical Actions in Singles Tennis, IAD-Futsal Instrumento de Avaliação do Desempenho Técnico-Tático no Futsal, BALPAI Basketball Learning and Performance Assessment Instrument, IMLPFoot Instrument for the Measurement of Learning and Performance in Football, FOCOS Football Competence Observation System