This form of analysis provides an objective and quantitative record of events in a player’s performance in a reliable and consistent format/manner (Hughes & Franks, 2007, p. 9). Historically, notational analysis has been utilised to interpret events in a player’s performance across a range of activities, such as movement patterns of dancers (Reilly, 2003, p. 246), shot selection of lawn tennis players (Hughes & Franks, 2008, p. 98) and distance covered of football players (Reilly, 2003, p. 249). This concurs with Hughes and Franks’ (2004, p. 1) work who contend that notational analysis can be used in any discipline, whether sports-based or not, that requires analysis and assessment of performance. As a consequence, notational analysis was not conducted in a traditional sense to examine player performance nor referee performance, but instead it was adapted and applied as a tool to classify verbose quotations that analysed referee performance. In turn, a statistical compilation of data (Hughes, 2003, p. 246) was produced as the ‘objective and quantitative record’ of how they were portrayed in…