A influência do tempo de posse de bola no resultados dos jogos da Liga Nacional de Futsal

Abstract

The objective of the study was to verify the relationship between the time in possession of the ball and the results in the matches of the National Futsal League. A hundred and seventy six official matches of the National Futsal League in Brazil were imputed in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The data collected from each match were the participating times, year and championship phase (group stage; octaves of final; quarters of final; semifinal; final), score and time of possession. To verify the possible differences in the time of possession of the ball, Student's t-tests for all the matches and, any, for phase of championships were performed. Data organization was performed using the Excel® 2010 program and its responsibility in the SPSS for Windows program, considering a significance level of α = 0.05. The results described descriptive that of the 176 matches, victories were found by the teams with less possession of the ball in 104 matches. An inferential analysis considering all matches revealed that the losing teams had greater possession of the ball than the winning teams (p < 0.001). Similar results were found in the specific analyzes of the group phase (p < 0.001), quarter-finals (p = 0.03) and semi-finals (p < 0.001), except for the octaves of final in which there was no difference in possession time of ball between the winning and losing teams (p = 0.60). The results of the present study allow us to conclude that the ball possession time is not an indicator of victories in the National Futsal League.