In the study "Analysis of the phases and subphases of a handball match" (Bon, Šibila, Pori, 2001), the authors monitored how much time a team plays in the attacking phase and how long in the defending phase.
V raziskavi »Analiza tekme glede na faze in pod faze igre« (Bon, Šibila, Pori, 2001) so avtorji spremljali koliko časa posamezno moštvo igra v fazi napada in koliko v fazi obrambe.