Analysis of differences in penalty corner pattern between winning and losing team in Women Malaysia Hockey League

The aim of this particular study was to investigate the differences in penalty corner execution between winning and losing in TNB Women Malaysian Hockey League. data was collected and extracted from the National Women Hockey League 2016. The data consist of twenty (20) matches of league game and five (5) matches of knock-out game for cup game, all utilised by computerized software Gamebreaker (Hudl, USA). A total of 195 penalty corner, have been analysed, which were consists of 148 penalty corner from the winning team and 97 penalty corner, respectively, from the losing team. From the selected performance indicator (P.I) that have been categorized was to find out which performance indicators affect high influent in executing the penalty corner in the tournament which are types of shot, shot attempts and shots target. A descriptive statistics was first carried out for all the match and it had been concluded into an overall descriptive statistics. For inferential statistics, the parametric statistical test which is paired-sample t-test was used to compare the differences of performance indicators between winning and teams in terms of penalty corner execution. The result showed that there were only three selected performance indicators out of ten that show a statistical significance difference. There were drag flick shot (p<0.000), goal scored (p<0.000) and shot on target (p<0.000). While other seven (7) performance indicators show no statistical significance different which were direct hit (p<0.852), deflection (p<0.247), tap (p<0.161), saved shot (p<0.085), blocked shot (p<0.692), missed shot (p<0.244) and shot off target (p<0.214).