An introduction to Athlete monitoring and Metrifit

1. Improved performance through athlete monitoring
and descriptive & predictive analysis

2. Improved performance through athlete monitoring &
predictive analysis
Common Issues for Coaches, Staff and Athletes
Athlete Monitoring – Key points & benefits
Road Blocks
Analytics in Sport
Metrifit
Contact Details

3. Common problems for Coaches, Staff & Athletes
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Collating data time consuming and laborious
Fragmented data is hard to collate and coaches don’t have
the time or the technical skills required to do this
Data Data everywhere
Powerful data is under-utilised due to difficulty in collating it
in an efficient manner and this leads to a lack of uniformity
and continuity as well as being time consuming and
laborious to collate all this information together
Communication and Feedback
isn’t always provided in most effective manner. Research
has shown that athlete buy-in into a monitoring system is
greatly enhanced if communication and feedback are
provided in an informative and intuitive way.

4. Improved performance through athlete monitoring &
predictive analysis
Common Issues for Coaches, Staff and Athletes
Athlete Monitoring – Key points & benefits
Road Blocks
Analytics in Sport
Metrifit
Contact Details

5. A monitoring system should be:-
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 Cost effective, Intuitive and easy to use
 A central hub for all relevant data across all relevant areas
 A portal and resource tool for effective communication/feedback
Measure Understand Control Improve
It should cater for:-
 Understanding athletes/players as best they can
 Long term athlete development and the development of an athlete passport
 Automated alerts re key events or highlighting athletes at risk
 Attractive, Intelligent Reports which are easy to understand
 Personal Insights and observations

6. Benefits of a monitoring system
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Developing Self-awareness and accountability in
the athlete
Increased athlete engagement, better
communication and competence
Understand how your mental state is related to your
sport performance
Optimising the prescription of Training
Load
Scientific research has shown that
excessive training load with inappropriate
recovery leads to a reduction in training
and competitive performance as well as
increased chance of injury and illness

7. Athlete Monitoring – Benefits
 Increased motivation and confidence as
well as improving focus
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 Improve your illness, burnout and injury prevention
programs
 Communication Portal and Educational Resource

8. Athlete Monitoring – Benefits
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 Better understanding of your athlete – Athlete Passport
 Performance improvement and
competitive edge
It has been shown that the athlete
who keeps a training diary will come
out on top because of the lessons
learnt from past training sessions and
competition performances
(Athletics Weekly)

9. Improved performance through athlete monitoring &
predictive analysis
Common Issues for Coaches, Staff and Athletes
Athlete Monitoring – Key points & benefits
Road Blocks
Analytics in Sport
Metrifit
Contact Details

10. Roadblocks
Progressive coaches buy into the
value of monitoring and analysing the
complete holistic picture of the athlete
but there is a mindset change involved
for both athlete and coaches/staff.
There is a discipline involved initially
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Mindset change for coaches and players
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it
this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that
runs counter-clockwise - Grace Murray Hopper

11. Roadblocks
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Availability of staff to analyse data
The difference between what is technologically possible
and what coaches and trainers can use based on ability
has created a “Sports Science Gap”
Lack of continuity and uniformity due to turnover
in staff
When staff go, information often goes with them
Intellectual property
If I am the coach and I write these programs,
why should I share them, don’t I own the IP?

12. Improved performance through athlete monitoring &
predictive analysis
Common Issues for Coaches, Staff and Athletes
Athlete Monitoring – Key points & benefits
Road Blocks
Analytics in Sport
Metrifit
Contact Details

13. Analytics in Sports
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In 2005, only 2/3 NBA teams thought about using advanced analytics
By 2011, more than ½ of NBA teams utilized analytics and most now consider analytics
a normal part of baseball operations
The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference – first took place in 2006 < 300 attendees
In 2014, 2000+ attendees representing 300+ teams, leagues and sports-related
organizations attended and conference trended high on twitter.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis focused on
Oakland Athletics baseball team using in-game analytical evidenced approach to
assembling a competitive team
AC Milan Lab
Players are now enormous assets – In the first year of the Milan lab, total practice
days lost to injury were down 43%, use of medicines were down 70%

14. Making sense of data
Challenge is how to get meaningful data into the hands and minds of the people who
can make effective use of it!
A central hub of data should become
a funnel or platform to collate
relevant key performance indicators
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Business Intelligence
 Visualisation of trends and
patterns
 Alert notification highlighting
changes in normal behaviour
 Consultation with individual teams
and athletes re performance
improvement and injury
 Identifies trends and patterns
across numerous variables
Data Smog
Identifying
trends and
patterns
Business
Intelligence
and
Visualisation

15. Predictive
Analysis
Relevant &
Reliable Data
Predictive
Variables
Changes over
Time -
Historical
Data
Detect
Patterns
& Trends
Statistical
Model
Apply model
against
Current Data
What is Predictive Analysis?
Predictive Analytics are used to
determine the probable future
outcome of an event or the likelihood
of a situation occurring.
Predictor variables can be measured
over time to predict future behaviour
based on historical behaviour

16. Improved performance through athlete monitoring &
predictive analysis
Common Issues for Coaches, Staff and Athletes
Athlete Monitoring – Key points & benefits
Road Blocks
Analytics in Sport
Metrifit
Contact Details

17. Metrifit provides a platform or a funnel to channel all relevant data information to form a central hub
of the data so that you can report on it and visualise it in a much more effective manner. This helps
improve performance and prevent injury and burnout and helps the athlete themselves to become
more self -aware and in control of what they are doing.
What is Metrifit ?

18. Measure Understand Control Improve
Athletes
Coaches
Staff
Competitive
Edge &
Improvement
through self
awareness
Athlete
Centric
Key Benefits

19. Athlete-centred philosophy
 Development of self awareness
 Empowering athletes to make
choices
 Encouraging creative thinking
 Long term success
 Build successful team, culture
 Game Sense
 Emotional Intelligence
 Ownership & Responsibility
 Individuality
 Decision Making

20. Product Overview
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 Cost effective, Intuitive and easy to use
 A central hub for all relevant data across all relevant areas
 A portal and resource tool for effective communication/feedback
Catering for:-
 Understanding athletes/players as best they can
 Long term athlete development and the development of an
athlete passport
 Automated alerts re key events or highlighting athletes at
risk
 Attractive, Intelligent Reports which are easy to understand
 Personal Insights and observations
Measure Understand Control Improve

21. Key Features
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Metrifit provides a perfect platform for athlete monitoring and development and
collects data over multiple modules ensuring that all aspects of the athlete are
taken into consideration. Some of metrifit’s key features include the following:-
Health and Wellbeing daily questionnaire// Readiness to Train Score
Training/Activities
Competition/Matches
Nutrition
Tests (Different tests carried out periodically i.e. Anthropometric, Speed,
Strength, Endurance type tests)
Life Style Events
Alerts & Notification system
Email/Athletes Lounge/Forum
Injury, Illness and Rehab Monitoring
Portal for Effective Communication/Video/File Storage
Feedback Mechanisms/Tactics Boards
Goal Settings/Reviews/Coach Athlete comparison assessments
PC and Mobile Versions
Descriptive Analytics
In house Research and Predictive Modelling
Our ethos is ‘simple but effective’ and our product is parameter driven and easily
customisable and configurable for different clients as required. Metrifit is ‘athlete-
centric’ helping to develop self-awareness, encourage creative thinking and
emotional intelligence as well as developing ownership and responsibility within
the athlete for their own success.

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The simple daily well being
indicators that athletes
enter are used to generate a
configurable readiness to
train score which provides
immediate invaluable
information to coaches.
Daily Well being survey – Readiness to train calculation

23. Traffic Light
Reports to
highlight at
risk athletes
and provide
overview of
well-being
Alerts &
Notifications
available to
remind
athletes to
log their
subjective
information
Daily traffic light reports

24. Individual athlete views to
check monotony & strain.
Athlete also has access to
updates and feedback here
and on the mobile phone
Training – Strain and Monotony

25. The dashboard view is
customisable to view the
key variables at a glance.
Each variable can be
clicked to view more
specific detail about that
variable collation.
Dashboard View – customised to show key variables

26. Empowering Decisions and Changing Outcomes
Our descriptive analysis details
trends and patterns and
highlights significant deviations
from normal behaviour to
coaches and athletes.
We use Z scores to highlight any
deviations. A Z score describes
how much a point deviates from
a mean of a group of data. We
compare last 7 days with
previous 28 days and last 28
days with previous 84 days (3
months) for individual athletes
and provide group comparisons
for relevant variables.
Colour coding is used for
visualisation and we include min,
max, averages, and comparison
to groups values.
Our predictive models are
currently in-house consultancy
projects where we apply different
models and liaise back with the
client. We will develop these
over time to eventually create an
in-product learning model.

27. Coaches Corner – Communication & Resources
Research has shown that athlete buy-in into a monitoring system is greatly enhanced if
communication and feedback are provided in an informative and intuitive way. Metrifit
provides a platform for this including
 Alerts and Notifications for Key Events
 Individual Messaging
 Lounge/Forum area
 Feedback area for Coaches on training and matches
 Coaches Corner/Blog – information at your fingertips with tagging and categorisation
for easy searching

28. Intelligent Business Intelligence and Predictive Analysis
Trends
Patterns
Underlying
Relationships
Allrelevantinformation
….
Body & Mind
Reviews
LifeStyle Factors
Injury /Illness
Nutrition
Video Analysis
Match Stats
GPS/HRMs
Social Activity
Communication
Feedback
Psychological Data
Technical Data
Physical Data
Test Results
 SMARTER DECISIONS
 TRAINING OVERLOAD &
INJURY PREVENTION
 ACTIONABLE GOALS
 IMPROVED COMMUNICATION
& OUTCOMES
 READINESS TO TRAIN SCORE
 ATHLETE PASSPORT
 IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND
COST SAVINGS
Proactive Decision
Making
“This is the data that can win championships”
Dean Oliver, Director of Publication Analytics at ESPN
Predictive Model

29. Improved performance through athlete monitoring &
predictive analysis
Common Issues for Coaches, Staff and Athletes
Athlete Monitoring – Key points & benefits
Road Blocks
Analytics in Sport
Metrifit
Contact Details

30. Our Clients/Contact DetailsContact us for more information
web: www.metrifit.com
email: info@metrifit.com
phone: +353 42 932 4505
+1-212-465-0761
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