Player load and "how hard was that?"
See each player's week of games and training against their own normal week, with or without GPS vests, and set when the app warns you.
Load is how much a player has done in a week. The app sets each player's week against their own normal week, so a warning means "more (or less) than usual for this player", not a ranking. This comes with GPS and player load.
Two ways to measure it
- GPS vests. After a game or a training session, upload the file your vest software exports. The app matches each row to a player for you to check, then saves it.
- How hard was that? After each session, players tap a score from 1 to 10. You can give or fix anyone's score too. The score × minutes is that session's load, so squads without vests see their load as well.
Where a player wore a vest, the app uses their distance. Otherwise it uses their scores.
Warnings
- Big jump this week: the week is well above the player's normal.
- Well down this week: well below. Worth a word, in case they're carrying a knock.
- Not enough weeks yet: there's no warning until a player has three weeks to compare with.
- Building back: a player coming back from an injury isn't warned about. Their physio sets the pace.
A player's normal is their average over the four weeks before.
Set your own limits
Whoever runs the squad sets how far above or below normal counts: by default 30% up and 20% down. Change them from the squad's load screen.
Who sees it
Warnings are for the coaches and the physio. Players and parents see their own numbers, never the warnings. Every Monday morning the coaches and physio get a short note if anyone stood out the week before.
Warnings are a guide for the coach, not medical advice.
Related
- Adding players and parentsAdd players yourself or share the join link, and bring in parents for under-18s.
- How to track hurling and camogie stats from the sidelineWhat's worth recording during a game, how to do it on a phone without missing play, and what the numbers tell you.
- How to track Gaelic football stats from the sidelineKick-outs, turnovers and scoring: what's worth recording at a Gaelic or ladies football game, and how one person can do it on a phone.