Player Stats

Player Stats

In order to get stats you need data. So either you start recording matches yourself or you get access to another user's data.

There are 11 stats options for players shown in the screen shot below that appears after you select a player.

For each of the options you can apply filters for teams, matches and date ranges.

See also Team Stats 

Totals

Based on the selections made you get a quick stats summary.

Head 2 Heads

These can be for two different players or the same player for different dates or teams. Here's Jack's data comparing his under 12 with his under 10 team appearances during the same season

Targets

You can set targets for a player see Set-up

Here's how Jack got on (shown in dark mode)

Click on a target and you get to see plots of the underlying data.

The date range is set at the target level co cannot be filtered.

Plots & Trends

Spin the wheels through the different plots available. There are around 20 different plots available.

Click on the chart itself to see point values

Trends are based on the same point information used in plots and add an overall average and a 3 game moving average.

Shot maps

This shows a basketball court with made shots (orange circles) and missed shots (purple crosses)

You have option in the bottom bar to view made only, missed only or both.

Hex Plots

Shot maps get messy after several games. Hex plots provide a clear frequency chart of shots by dividing the basketball court into hexagons and calculating how many shots were made from each hexagon.

In the accuracy chart the darkness of the colour indicates frequency and the size of the hexagon shows accuracy. There are 4 hexagon sizes, one for each quartile. So the smallest shows bottom quartile accuracy at less than 25% and the largest shows top quartile accuracy of greater than 75%. Large dark hexagons show the player’s hot spots.

Alternatively using the options below the plot you can view shots made and shots missed where all hexagons are the same size and the frequency is shown by the darkness of the colour.

The slider in the legend allows you to eliminate hexagons with low shot frequencies

Source

This shows the stats for all the recorded matches for a player in age order with the latest at the top. 

Tap on a stat and the feed page for the stat is displayed. If you are viewing one of your own players you also have options in the bottom bar to edit the recording or share it with another coach.

Feed

This provides a scrollable feed for this player’s matches. This is explained in the Feed section of this guide.

Ai and Excel exports

These utilities can be used to extract data on to your device from where you can load it into your preferred spreadsheet or Ai service.

All the usual filters apply. The Ai extract provides the data in JSON format which includes a description of the data content that most Ai engines will be able to read and translate. We did look at integrating Ai more directly into the app but this would mean trying to anticipate line of enquiries whereas this option provides the data you need and you decide what analysis Ai carries out. It also means you end up paying for Ai once as we don't pass on any charges. The drawback is you need to be able to find and upload files from your device. We figure you can use Ai itself to guide you on how to do this! Choice of Ai engine is a key matter - the free services are ok but you might want to subscribe to a more thoughtful engine to get the best results.

The Excel export is similar but the data is in csv format and as Excel is limited to colums and rows several tabs may be used to provide full coverage. This option allows you to backup or archive stats that you want to keep in a more readable format than JSON.