stats websites on distances gaa players cover during games

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are there any websites out there that do this?

would be interesting to see different player stats on the amount of miles they put in, but also how economical some players are, when it comes to expending less energy and still being effective.

be good to be able to add up the total miles a team puts in too per game.

obvious flaws in only looking at these type of mileage stats, but would be interesting to see what the results are. if donegal are supposed to be the fittest team, would the stats prove that they run more than other sides? i'm not convinced of this myself.

[CitySlicker11]

Would the players not have to wear some form of specialist equipment or have something built in to their jerseys to do this, or can it be done by other means nowadays?

[Bingo]

I've heard of a club team in Monaghan buying such a system this year. It can be done a number of ways i'm told.

You'd see the premiership players wearing a heartrate monitor and GPS tracking system which returns the info back to the bench, while there is also a chip system using GPS that electronically returns it to the bench but also just stores the info and is used after the session/game has finished.

No idea on cost etc or where the info would be available.

Such is the secretive world of the GAA and managers, that many wouldn't make this info available to anyone as they'd be worried about the opposite looking at it.

[spuds]

Think the iPhone has an app that calculates your travelled distance, one of our players uses it at training occasionally.

[All of a Sludden]

I read an article recently by a Kevin McGuigan, a sports scientist and possibly Ulster GAA employee on this subject, though not sure which paper it was in. Google may help you out or even http://ulster.gaa.ie/  I think half forwards were covering something like 14km per game, with fullbacks covering the least distance.

[Shamrock Shore]

Isn't there a sometimey poster on here called emmetryan that posts stats on recent games?

He may be worth dropping a pm to.

[trasna man]

i use my i pod and sensor to track the distance i moved while refereeing its between 8km and 9km per senior game most people don't believe me Kevin has a G.P.S system for monitoring players  and referees very expensive gear i think

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garmin watches and foot pods aren't that expensive. have a garmin watch myself. cost me just over £110, but you couldn't wear it in a game. the foot pod works on measuring your stride when you run and then it just counts how many strides you make i think, but i could be wrong on this. the foot pod would be flawed as running and running in a game of football are totally different and the reading would be skewed i'd have thought and not true.

@ trasna man, what type of gear is it and is there a website that holds the stats so we can have a look at them please?

[Qwerty28]

Any decent sites out there for Stats in generla, like appearances, all time scoreres and the like....have come across gaainfo.com but it doesnt seem to be updated very often.....

[trasna man]

garmin watches and foot pods aren't that expensive. have a garmin watch myself. cost me just over £110, but you couldn't wear it in a game. the foot pod works on measuring your stride when you run and then it just counts how many strides you make i think, but i could be wrong on this. the foot pod would be flawed as running and running in a game of football are totally different and the reading would be skewed i'd have thought and not true.

@ trasna man, what type of gear is it and is there a website that holds the stats so we can have a look at them please?

go to nike+ website
as well as tracking the refereeing it tracks my runs in winter on the roads or the trend mill Stephen Cleary from the Steelstown club uses the Addais one which is more expensive but gives more information

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garmin watches and foot pods aren't that expensive. have a garmin watch myself. cost me just over £110, but you couldn't wear it in a game. the foot pod works on measuring your stride when you run and then it just counts how many strides you make i think, but i could be wrong on this. the foot pod would be flawed as running and running in a game of football are totally different and the reading would be skewed i'd have thought and not true.

@ trasna man, what type of gear is it and is there a website that holds the stats so we can have a look at them please?

go to nike+ website
as well as tracking the refereeing it tracks my runs in winter on the roads or the trend mill Stephen Cleary from the Steelstown club uses the Addais one which is more expensive but gives more information

by the looks of it, county teams aren't using this yet or am i wrong?

so your's is a senser in the shoe. hadn't seen that one before. it does looks like the type of technology that could be fitted into a pair of boots that would give a truer reading than a foot pod.

be cool to have them worn by gaa players to see what the results were, but there'll need to be a few more euro put on tickets before that comes about i'm guessing.

[mylestheslasher]

I imagine donegal players would cover half the distance other gaa players do given most of them only operate in one half of the field.