Following on from our discussion yesterday about adopting one or two of the techniques the enormously successful GB Olympic cycling team there are other areas where a technical advantage can be sought.
Football is awash with metrics these days. Clubs know things about their players they never even wondered about 10 years ago, leading to more informed decisions. It is probably no exaggeration to suggest that a club like Celtic will have some information on thousands of players. At the top level, much of this information will be fresh in the minds of coaches and scouts, and will easily be recorded on a database, but scouting permeates through youth football. Acquiring and assimilating information on the many hundreds of players on view each month is an information challenge.
The US sports were early to get on top of this problem. SportsBoard is a iPad-based data capture and management app which enables coaches and scouts to record information on players (their own players and others) as they watch the game. Data is uploaded from the iPad to a cloud-based database. Information and comment on each player or opposing team can then easily be analysed.
The alternative would be to scour through unstructured notes without any way of controlling the up-flow of information.
The app has also been used to provide instant metrics to first team squads. Players can get home from training, login and see how their performance was rated that day, allowing them to adjust their own target for the next session. I spoke to the designer, Gregg Jacobs, who has received a ton of media coverage in the US over the last two years. He told me this was about providing “more meaningful feedback”. Take a look at the Assessment and Contact Management features, which has screenshots of the ‘soccer’ app.
So this week we’ve covered orthopaedic pillows on tour and leg heaters from the GB cycling team, as well as a scouting management and instant metrics system from US sports, all low-cost and designed to reduce risk and improve performance.
Should we do it?
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Efe is Nigerian
LB
oldtim67
Nigeria, they play later tonight
HH
Lionsroars67.
I wouldn’t dream of posting it.
I no tbj pops into rm now and again,no your enemy and such.hail hail.
Burgas Hoops
Times are hard mi amigo !!!
I only have one who can do the biz, the rest have been for the chop.
He is a half size white Wolfhound, and as daft as a brush, thinking of doing the same with him.
palacio67
15:53 on
21 January, 2013
proudbhoy
15:39 on
21 January, 2013
It gets better and better. You are correct though, it’s a bit slow at the start and most folk chuck it before episode 4. I have urged a few to keep at it, and they all get hooked before the first season ends. I’m up to date with BB and MadMen and have now started ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ ( Kindly passed down from my elder Hermano at CP on Saturday !
HH
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Aye first couple werent the greatest, starting series 2 now and it has got lot better. Gonna keep at it.
Watched first 10 eposides of sons of anarchy. Great show so these 2 programmes should keep me going for a while.
Do you know what series breaking bad and sons of anarchy are currently upto ?
Efe’s bhoys play Burkino Faso at 6pm live on ITV 4.
WeeOscarLife Cycle’s to Belfast St Patricks weekend March 2013
On 15th/16th of March 100 cyclist will set off from 5 locations in the UK & Ireland for Belfast to raise funds that will go towards helping Wee Oscar Knox fund the Immunotherapy treatment he so desperately requires. We will be leaving from:
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When’s the earliest that Nigeria can be eliminated from the tournament?!
T4
sipsini
16:10 on
21 January, 2013
I asked for no links
I stated the Video was a disgrace
You have decided to take that personally
PeteTheBeat
It’s a lovely thought but I think you are to a certain extent p***ing into the wind, the etiquette you find on here on match days will always be (imo) similar to the etiquette you will find on any given public golf course, i.e. not very much, mainly because everybody is hyper on match days.
The O’le pioneers of the pre-sevco days were well ahead of the pack when it came to being well, pioneers in high tech sports science department
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tommytwiststommyturns
Think the last group games are on the 30th january
Livibhoy.
Big G.
Thanks for the info,I was about 95% certain it was Nigeria,but the doubt was there.
That game is on at 5.30 for a 6 o’clock kick off.
MurdochauldandHay
Very apt,a penny farthing,I believe?
proudbhoy
16:11 on 21 January, 2013
Use this site if you want any info on films or telly
http://www.imdb.com/
Tet.
Im putting up good fight but the kids are wearing me down.
My daughter and her friend are going through to my brothes in dalgety bay to dog sit next weekend.
“Two” westies….notice that petethebeat..
And the screw will be turned until i give in.hh
The Moon Bhoys
Thanks for the reply.
I think the ‘FFS’ is the worst – it leaves you thinking of a goal against us, a penalty or a red card.
Quite often, the poster just means a dodgy offside decision or a Celtic miskick.
oldtim67
No problem. If you want to show off in a Celtic quiz he was born in Kaduna, Nigeria just to let you know ;)
Any Belfast or Co. Down Tims about?
Looking for a bit of help with exact routes from Dundalk to Belfast for the cyclists going from Duleek and Dublin for the WeeOscar4Life cycle on 16th March.
We were planning on sticking on the N1 straight into Belfast but have been advised it is too busy for any group of cyclists and are now looking for quiter routes.
We will be heading up from Dundlak and then into Banbridge and into Belfast so if anyone has info on exact routes for me please pass it on, you can get my contact details through Paul67
Thanks
Navanbhoy
petethebeat 15:47 on 21 January, 2013
Etiquette on CQN Live Updates?
Hard to set hard and fast rules when we are all posting in reaction to events on the field, many of us with feeds that are out of synch.
It’s great to read input from all corners of the globe. CQN’s live updates makes me feel that I am part of the larger Celtic support even stuck here in rural New Jersey with my PC streaming to my TV and fighting to get my arthritic fingers across the iPad keyboard.
I personally like the off subject witty sarcastic asides which we often can’t react fully to as play moves on.
‘GG
Boney M take a pounding but apart from Ma Baker their stuff was great .Outsold The Who FGS.
sons of anarchy,series 5 over here
Lionsroar67.
I’ve not taken it personally.
I didn’t post a link,only directed a friend to were he could view it.hh
dontpatmadug
16:19 on 21 January, 2013
proudbhoy
16:11 on 21 January, 2013
Use this site if you want any info on films or telly
http://www.imdb.com/
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Cheers buddy.
U watch homeland ?
Any good is it ?
petethebeat
I think I am the worst ffs offender on a match day and shall desist- not good you thinking we have conceded when I’m bemoaning brines. Etiquette’s never been ma forté
HH : )
‘GG
The live updates can be great at times. Paul should collate some of them into a book like the Barca 2-1, Man U 1-0 or the Rangers 2-1 in 2008 with the JVOH last minute winner
Jackie Mac – People should also be breathalysed before they post – especially after a defeat.
deniabhoy
13:29 on
21 January, 2013
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Very Interesting post
Can you share how cycling helps u pay the bills?
HH
PeteTheBeat – agreed, but etiquette or not – its miles better on here during live matches than listening to the live commentary on Radio Shortbread, now that’s what I call really annoying.
proudbhoy
16:35 on 21 January, 2013
Started watching the first season got to about the 8th
episode an wrapped it. Wasn’t for me.
HH
Interesting dynamic now at the Superbowl.
Two brothers, Jim(49ers)& John(Baltimore) against each other…
Should make Christmas dinners interesting for years to come!
When we were two little Bhoys indeed..
HH
My Dear Kojo……
Oor High Heid Yins….
Need Tae Lever The Lid Off The Biscuit Tin….
And Buy Mackay Steven & Russell……
Fae Oor Tangerine Pals…..
The Increased Competition…..
For Places Up Front…..
Will Energise Oor Squad…..
And Drive Us…Onwards…Tae Wem-B-Lee
Too Often In The Past…..
We Hiv Hesitated…..
And Missed Oot On Tip Top Players….
Fae The Fair City Of Jute & Jam….
Like Strachan…Before Big Billy Snapped Him Up For The Dandy Dons…..
Deadly And Stylish John Duncan..
Afore The Ne’er Do-Wells Of White-Hart Lane…Stole Him From Oor Clutches…..
And The Mighty Andy Gray….
His Mother’s “Broth Of A Bhoy”….
Who Wiz Hijacked ….
By Dull And Boring Aston Villa…
So Let’s Go Out An Buy These Stars….
Before We Sell Anyone(Apart From Paddy)…
Send A Message To All These Wee Shouty-Boy Journeyman Teams….
In The Bloated And Boring….EPL..
Right…?
Nigeria v Burkina Faso in the African Cup of Nations shortly.
Natives of Nigeria are known as Nigerians.
What are natives of Burkina Faso known as?
Burkinians?
Burkina Fasonians?
Cmon Efe!
HH!!
‘gg-Try an app called TV Catchup,it is free and picture on my phone is brilliant.Basically live TV ,Freeview channels and a few extra ones,via android and apple.
saltires en sevilla
16:40 on 21 January, 2013
deniabhoy
13:29 on
21 January, 2013
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Very Interesting post
Can you share how cycling helps u pay the bills?
HH
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Prob best asking lance Murray or David Armstrong.
Same cheating b******s.hail hail.
dontpatmadug
16:42 on
21 January, 2013
proudbhoy
16:35 on 21 January, 2013
Started watching the first season got to about the 8th
episode an wrapped it. Wasn’t for me.
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Thanks
Think the wire is nxt on list anyway. Wont be for couple months probably.
Just had a text from IcyRoads warning me to look out for………IcyRoads
Whatsthatallabout CSC
Bukina Faso…(Previously Upper Volta)
Translates As “The Country Of The Honest Men”…..
So,The Multitudinous Inhabitants….
Of That Wee,Land-Locked Country….
Wid Obviously Call Themselves…
‘The Honest Men’..?
An’ That Is Awe….She Wrote…