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Don't be left behind in 2004 - Sports Performer Video Analysis
Sports Performer staff are regularly questioned about what the system can do?
Listed below are several points to make your club aware of why Rugby League and Union clubs all over the world are turning to the Sports Performer system for their video analysis.
* The first point new customers raise is the cost.
Sports Performer is affordable at AUS$2500.00 [approx GBP1000.00] compared to other analysis systems.
* The second point is how uncomplicated and user friendly the system is. The operator does not have to be a computer 'genius' to run the system. Wakefield Wildcats had their system installed on a Monday afternoon recently.
On the following Friday when Sports Performer personel returned to check on their progress, the Wakefield coaching staff already had captured many of their 2003 Super League games in the Sports Performer system and were tagging and analysing their players and opposition players in preparation for coming season.
Read below to get a better understanding of what the Sports Performer system can do for your club:
* Allow entire squad of players to be stored on file. Details such as name and contact details, date-of-birth and even a picture of the player. Set them up in groups to allow easier access.
* User-defined statistics mean that you are not restricted by the names or number of statistics in the system. You may for example, set up statistics that mean nothing to people not associated with your squad.
* Quality can be assigned to statistics thus allowing the user to distinguish between say a dominant tackle and a tackle assist.
* Games can be tagged either by mouse-clicking on the relevant player and statistic combination OR by utilizing hotkeys on the keyboard.
* Watch the game in slow motion to allow better and more efficient tagging.
* Specify lag-seconds allowing for slower users tagging the events.
* Retrace option tells the video file to behave how you want it to during the tagging process. No need to pause the video file playback to catch-up with tagging.
* Allows pause and frame-by-frame movement of video file.
* Video file can be run in reverse at slow, normal or fast speed.
* Forward or back the video file in user-definable steps. A simple click of a button will result in the video stepping forward 20 seconds or stepping back the same increment. Useful when play is stop-start or to quickly get to a particular point in the video.
* Record the position on the field that an event took place. This could be perhaps in metres or in zones like a red zone, green zone etc.
* Review events by game, player, statistic or competition. Show the events one after the other with full video-type controls.
* Build an movie file of events for distribution to players, supporters, sponsors or management. The file runs on most new DVD players with VCD capabilities.
* Runs on all resolution screens but best suited to 1024 x 768 pixels.
* Store information on players, statistics, games, referees, grounds.
* Password enabled to restrict access to the system.
* User-definable reports allows unlimited access to data within the database.
* Store notes about a players game.
* Build up a edit-type movie from your video clips, eliminating the need for tape-to-tape video production of a highlights tape.
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THIS RLCM COACHING EXTRACT is from Book 18 printed 2000:
COMPLETION RATES By Gary Roberts
Rarely can you watch a game of football without being bombarded with statistic after statistic. Whether it is tackle counts, hit ups,line breaks or offloads, coaches are using statistics increasingly to analyse games and review the performances of individual players.
`Completion rates' are one such statistic, with many pundits suggesting a high `completion rate' is likely to pave the way for victory.
But how valuable are `completion rates'? Are they an accurate indication of the game?
Parramatta coach Brian Smith believes `completion rates' are misguided: "Completion statistics are quantity statistics not quality statistics," Smith said.
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"A forward may make 15 hit ups in a game, but did he take on the line? Break the line? Offload?"
Broncos' Assistant Coach, John Dixon said. "You have to see the quality of the statistics until you can comment on them."
Current `completion rate' statistics published in Big League Magazine tell an interesting tale. The Broncos, currently first on the NRL Premiership ladder, are ranked 12th out of 14 teams on the
`completion rates' ladder.
Similarly Melbourne, who Smith labelled as one of the benchmarks of the competition, are running 14th and last on the `completion rates' ladder.
Ironically, the Auckland Warriors who are currently 13th on the Premiership ladder and widely tipped as likely wooden spooners, are the most successful club in `completing sets'; despite having one of the worst defensive and attacking records in the League.
"The quality of the completion is more important than whether you complete the set," said Smith. "To use an old analogy, it's not what you've got, but how you use it" he said.
As Smith suggests, completion rates fail to recognise the quality of a team's set. Auckland may be the most efficient team in completing sets of six, but where are these sets being completed?
Auckland's poor record tends to indicate opposition sides are dictating where their sets are taking place.
The recent Anzac Day Test is a further example, highlighting that a team who has completed a majority of their sets may not necessarily be in front on the scoreboard.
In the first half of the Test, New Zealand had the ball 20 times and `completed' their sets on 17 occasions. Despite managing to complete 85 percent of their sets, they trailed 22 - nil at halftime.
New Zealand kicked the ball only once in Australia's `red zone', five times from Australia's 50m-40m area, and eight times from deep in their own half. As these statistics illustrate, New Zealand have completed a high percentage of sets, but a lack of field position meant their completion rate was relatively ineffective.
"What is completion?" Smith asks. "If you get to the six play and put up a poor bomb, have you completed the set? If you kick the ball dead in goal and the opposition gets a restart from the 20-metre line, have you completed your set?"
"You're better off making an eighty metre break and making an error on the third tackle than completing a set sometimes," Smith said.
As Smith indicates, there are alternative ways to successfully complete a `set of six' than just kicking the ball on the 5th tackle.
Running the ball on the 5th can be a good option for sides with strike power out wide. Also, as Brisbane and Melbourne demonstrate, turning the ball over in a corner without scoring can sometimes be more effective than kicking.
"This (turning the ball over in a corner) is the second best option to kicking the ball in goal and hoping for a restart from a goal line drop out," Australian and Melbourne Storm coach Chris Anderson said.
Does a statistician record a `set of tackles' that finished similar to this as an uncompleted set, just because the ball was not kicked on the 5th? The coach would be happy, the players would be happy, as they have completed a part of the game plan to perfection. Providing the rest of the game plan is adhered to, the team is likely to
score within the next 6 or 12 tackles.
Brisbane and Melbourne score many tries from the ensuing sets, by having their defence contain the opposition in the corner for 1,2 or 3 tackles, which limits the opposition's field position and the
length of their kick on the 5th tackle. [Refer to Anzac Day Test]
If a team is unable to get to the 50m mark to kick on their 5th tackle, the opposition has an immediate territorial advantage.
The big play, which rewards a team's solid defence, is when the opposition is forced to kick on the 5th tackle from within their own `red zone', and the ball only reaches the 50m - 40m mark.
Does the statistician record a `completed set' for the attacking side? When in reality it is a successful set for the opposition, who have taken control of field position and consequently the game through good defence.
"Basically, we record a positive as opposed to a negative," said league statistician David Middleton. "If a team has achieved an objective then it is consider a completed set...If a team makes an error then the set is deemed incomplete."
"It is more important to achieve your goal and objective rather than complete a set," said Queensland Rugby League's Glenn Bayliss. "There are three different styles of sets: defensive, field position and scoring."
"I see junior coaches jotting down the number of sets their teams have completed," Bayliss said. "But junior coaches should forget about statistics, and observe whether their player's heads are in
the right position when they're tackling, or whether they're passing off the right foot."
Perhaps too greater emphasis is placed on `completion rates'. After all, a game of football is not won on who holds the ball for the longest, but rather, which team can capitalise on the amount of ball they have.
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