Match Tracking Software

[blewuporstuffed]

Looking into investing in one of these for our club. Has anyone any recent experience with match tracking software?

We've been leaning towards performa. Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

We used performa last year.
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[PAULD123]

I think stats are a potentially great addition to a manager. For instance you could track the maximum sprint speed of an opponent and therefore determine teh best man to put on him.

But I worry about too much emphasis on a scientific management strategy and it taking away from personal responsibility of the player. Each player needs to be thinking at every second of the game "what can I be doing right now that helps my team" and not thinking "am I in the place the stats say I should be"

[DuffleKing]

I think stats are a potentially great addition to a manager. For instance you could track the maximum sprint speed of an opponent and therefore determine teh best man to put on him.

But I worry about too much emphasis on a scientific management strategy and it taking away from personal responsibility of the player. Each player needs to be thinking at every second of the game "what can I be doing right now that helps my team" and not thinking "am I in the place the stats say I should be"

Am I missing how any of this software would enable you to garner any information about opposition players?

[highorlow]

In rugby it certainly influences tactics. Last week I was expecting box kicks and they were few and far between and mainly came from the Welsh.

I heard toland or another pundit saying that the percentage return on grubbers and box kick makes them ineffective. That's why we appear to be changing our style in rugby. Ironically it was a kick chase that lost the draw for us last week as Wales got the bounce of the ball on that one.

It would be interesting to see what returns are got going long ball in Gaelic v the short slow build up. I'd say the latter gives a better return but I suppose the opposition has to be taken into account. Unless you have a full set of stats done for each team a stats tracker may not work.

Gaelic is too fast for stats to have as much influence, there is a time to defend and a time to throw caution to the wind, in both those scenarios if you outflank or are better than the opposition during certain periods you will win. Donegal are the masters of this and are already looking a real force this year.

[Harold Disgracey]

Looking into investing in one of these for our club. Has anyone any recent experience with match tracking software?

We've been leaning towards performa. Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

I know the boys who run Performa quite well, they're members of my own club, I know a lot of clubs and counties are using their software. Danny Turley in particular has a long background in GAA stats having worked previously with Armagh.

[Itchy]

Performa is good but expensive and only available on Apple iPad, no android which is a big balls. I looked into this and there is an app on android called "sports stats recorder" which costs 1 euro. It's simple, customisable and while it doesn't have the fancy in app graphs performa has, it does allow export to excel and once you can do that you can do what you like with the data.