ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1584173
This article is part of the Research TopicSpatial-temporal Metrics to Assess Collective Behavior in Team SportsView all 12 articles
Key Performance Indicators in AVP Women's Beach Volleyball: Analysis of Set Outcome, Game Phase, and Set Score Difference Women's Beach Volleyball Performance Indicators
Provisionally accepted
Yago Pessoa Costa1*
Filipe Martins1Lucas Ribeiro2
ANTONIO GARCIA DE ALCARAZ SERRANO3
Gilmário Ricarte Batista1- 1Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
- 2Centro Maurício de Nassau, João Pessoa, Brazil
- 3Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Almeria, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
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Purpose: This study aimed to analyze technical-tactical performance indicators regarding the set outcome, game phase, and set score difference. Methods: Forty-one matches, 79 sets, and 14,959 game actions [serve: 2,879; serve reception: 2,567; set: 2,176; attack (side-out): 2,324; block: 818; dig: 1,684; set (counterattack): 1,224; and counterattack: 1,287] of women AVP Gold Series Tournament were analyzed. The independent variables were: set outcome (i.e., winner or loser), and set score difference, whereas the dependent variables were: points scored in each game phase, performance coefficient, and efficiency. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed for comparison purposes and logistic regression to associate match outcomes with performance indicators. Results: The points scored in K0, K2, and K3B were higher in the winning sets. Similarly, higher performance coefficients and efficiencies were observed for actions performed during the defensive phase (block, dig, set, and counter-attack).Moreover, the performance of K2 and K3B, along with attack and counterattack efficiency, as well as block and dig performance coefficients, were associated with winning the set. The set score difference was characterized as an indicator of set balance because the differences in performance indicators between winners and losers generally increased with greater point differentials. Conclusion: In the context of elite women's beach volleyball, although attacking is important for winning a set, the key performance indicators were mainly derived from the construction of counterattacks. Additionally, the set score difference reflects the balance of the set. Therefore, these parameters can be used to guide training programs and assess team performance, respectively.
Keywords: Game actions, Performance coefficient, sand sports, notational analysis, team performance
Received: 26 Feb 2025; Accepted: 23 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Costa, Martins, Ribeiro, GARCIA DE ALCARAZ SERRANO and Batista. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yago Pessoa Costa, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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