This body of work has constituted a significant investigation of team ball sports focusing on the performance of actions during games. individual or group, goal-directed, behavioural combinations) in various competitive contexts. Recently, researchers have focused on analysing tactical behaviours (i.e. Performance analysis has evolved from providing statistics-based activity profiles of players during competitive matches to analyses of the frequency counts of technical actions. Increasing scientific and technical research on match analysis has coincided with the creation of international scientific societies and specialized scientific journals, the constitution of autonomous research departments in higher education institutions worldwide, and the organization of scientific events meetings dedicated to enhancing methodological and statistical knowledge in this subdiscipline. Nevertheless, scientific studies, including performance analysis, remained dormant until match analysis in team ball sports started to draw considerable attention in the 1980s and 1990s. They developed their own ideographic notation system and demonstrated the early performance notation of baseball in the late nineteenth century. The first significant insights in this area of sports science were probably provided by Evers and Fullerton, who published “Touching Second: The Science of Baseball”. The impact of and interest in performance analysis in team sports, as a methodological approach to promote athlete development and preparation, have increased over the years. Registration: The protocol was registered in the International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols with the number 202080067 and the DOI number. The evolution of methods for match analysis in team ball sports indicates that: (1) an individual-level performance analysis was predominant (2) the focus on intermediate levels of analysis, observing performance in dyadic and group interactions, has received less attention from researchers (3) neglected areas of research include psychosocial aspects of team sports and women’s performance and (4) analyses of match contexts need greater depth. match status, match location, match period, quality of opposition) and (2) sociodemographic and environmental constraints (sex, age groups, competitive level, altitude, temperature, pitch surface). Team performance was contextualized at two levels, with reference to: (1) match context (e.g.

These levels of analysis included tactical, technical, physical, and psychosocial variables. Additionally, the results showed that research is focused mainly on four levels of analysis: (1) dyadic (microlevel) (2) individual (molecular level predominant) (3) group (mesolevel), and (4) team dynamics (macrolevel). The overall methodological quality of the 24 included reviews, obtained through the AMSTAR-2, revealed very low confidence ratings (Critically Low, n = 12) for the results of most systematic reviews of match analyses in team ball sports.

Twenty-four studies were reviewed that met the following criteria: (1) contained relevant data from match analyses in team ball sports (2) were defined as systematic reviews or/and meta-analyses and (3) were written in the English language.

Appraisal of the methodological quality of included articles was undertaken using the tool for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR-2). The Web of Science (all databases), PubMed, Cochrane Library (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews), Scopus, and SPORTDiscus databases were searched for relevant publications prior to 19 February 2021. An umbrella review of the available literature is needed to provide an integrated overview of current knowledge and contribute to more robust theoretical explanations of team performance. Match analysis has evolved exponentially over the past decades in team sports resulting in a significant number of published systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

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