The Working Cycle of a Performance Analyst.

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Working within the sporting industry is very demanding within itself due to the unpredictability of sport, which managers and coaches trying to reduce the gap as much as possible thus giving us a Performance Analyst, and everyone involved within the sporting business, more work load to do to ensure team or individual performs at their best every week. As a Performance Analyst, its pretty much what it says on the tin, you have to video the team or individual every week.

To then gather a greater understanding you have to use a variety of analysis methods to then be able to analyse at a greater depth and inform the coaches and the athletes on what areas of play they will need to improve and work on during training. Some of these methods are:

  • Notational Analysis – This is when you note down important statistics such as ‘how many dribbles’, ‘how many passes in the last third’. These type of delving questions will help to analytically pull apart the performance. The more questions you ask, the more you start to pull apart the performance, and you will create statistics to show your analysis.
  • Video Clipping – This shows the coaches examples of where you believe the team or individual performed particularly well, so you watch the game back and edit parts of the video according to this.

Finally you present your assessment of the game back to the relevant coaches for them to use and put your assessment into practice, usually the turnaround is maximum of two days, this does however depend on the level.

By Matt

Matt is the owner and chief-editor of the Footy Blog, one of the UK's leading football news blogs.