PMID- 33421960 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210624 LR - 20220531 IS - 1555-0273 (Electronic) IS - 1555-0265 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 2 DP - 2021 Feb 1 TI - Call to Action: Recommendations to Improve the Methodological Reporting of Games-Based Drills in Basketball Research. PG - 316-321 LID - ijspp.2020-0665 [pii] LID - 10.1123/ijspp.2020-0665 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: Games-based drills are the predominant form of training adopted during basketball practice. As such, researchers have begun to quantify the physical, physiological, and perceptual demands of different games-based drill formats. However, study methodology has not been systematically reported across studies, limiting the ability to form conclusions from existing research. The authors developed this call to action to draw attention to the current standard of methodological reporting in basketball games-based drill research and establish a systematic reporting standard the authors hope will be utilized in future research. The Basketball Games-Based Drill Methodical Reporting Checklist (BGBDMRC) was developed to encourage the systematic reporting of games-based drill methodology. The authors used the BGBDMRC to evaluate the current methodological reporting standard of studies included in their review published in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, "A Systematic Review of the External and Internal Workloads Experienced During Games-Based Drills in Basketball Players" (2020), which highlighted this issue. Of the 17 studies included in their review, only 38% (+/-18%) of applicable checklist items were addressed across included studies, which is problematic as checklist items are essential for study replication. CONCLUSIONS: The current standard of methodological reporting in basketball games-based drill research is insufficient to allow for replication of examined drills in future research or the application of research outcomes to practice. The authors implore researchers to adopt the BGBDMRC to improve the quality and reproducibility of games-based drill research and increase the translation of research findings to practice. FAU - O'Grady, Cody J AU - O'Grady CJ FAU - Fox, Jordan L AU - Fox JL FAU - Conte, Daniele AU - Conte D FAU - Ferioli, Davide AU - Ferioli D FAU - Scanlan, Aaron T AU - Scanlan AT FAU - Dalbo, Vincent J AU - Dalbo VJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210109 PL - United States TA - Int J Sports Physiol Perform JT - International journal of sports physiology and performance JID - 101276430 SB - IM MH - *Basketball MH - Humans MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Workload OTO - NOTNLM OT - checklist OT - games-based training OT - rules OT - small-sided games OT - sport EDAT- 2021/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/25 06:00 CRDT- 2021/01/09 20:17 PHST- 2020/07/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/10/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/11/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/09 20:17 [entrez] AID - ijspp.2020-0665 [pii] AID - 10.1123/ijspp.2020-0665 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2021 Feb 1;16(2):316-321. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.2020-0665. Epub 2021 Jan 9.