System and method for organizing and training team athletic players
A system and method for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. Player skills are evaluated relative to positions for a type of sport and player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills is displayed. The method may include selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player; establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation value to a player based on observing player performance; identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for the skill and position; calculating a weighted evaluation value and determining the average weighted evaluation value for a player's skills; and determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.
This invention relates to systems and methods for evaluating athletic ability for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. The new system and method evaluates player skills related to positions for team play and presents player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills.
Systems, equipment and methods may be known for measuring and evaluating key athletic ability and player skills, for example, athlete running speed, kicking speed, swinging speed that may be related to a bat, ball throwing speeds for a particular sport, and other like parameters and activities. Agility and strength are often other factors directly measured for an athlete to estimate individual performance.
Various of these systems and methods use equipment and facilities for specific sports such as baseball, football, and soccer as well as others. Often the players and devices for playing in the sport are instrumented in order to monitor where a ball is relative to a player or how a device was used by a player when practicing or playing a game. Parameters or metrics for play of the game are monitored and evaluated. The use of charts and graphs may be used to evaluate a player or a group of player's performances.
The use of formulas or calculations to evaluate selected parameters collected for athletes play in selected sports has also been disclosed, see for example U.S. Pat. No. 8,308,615, issued on Nov. 13 2012. The types of methods used in evaluating or calculating and predicting athlete ability do not provide a method to organize and train a sports team such as a soccer team as well as develop players at various positions for improvement of the team and players. The various methods for currently discovered calculations and evaluations are not specific concerning the skills necessary for the various player positions of a particular sport such as soccer. Most often skills such as passing are evaluated as an overall skill rather than as a five element skill as in soccer for short passing, raised long passing, through ball/passing, pass selection/vision, and one touch passing. When a skill is not correctly evaluated for a player position on a team there is a loss of accuracy and relationship/relevance to each position for organizing a team to play the game.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention is directed to systems and methods for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. Player skills are evaluated relative to positions for a type of sport team play and displays are presented for player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills. The method may include selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player; establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation value to a player based on observing player performance; identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for the skill and position; establishing a scale multiplier value for each importance rating value to weight the importance rating value; multiplying a player's evaluation measure for each skill times the scale multiplier value to obtain a weighted evaluation measure; summing the weighted evaluation measures for a player's skills and determining the average weighted evaluation value; and determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.
These and other features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following drawings, description and claims.
The following detailed description represents the best currently contemplated modes for carrying out the invention. The description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, but is made merely for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention.
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An importance input rating scale value for use in comparing skills for each type of player position for soccer based on the skills listed in
Each input rating value is assigned a rating scale multiplier as a weighting value or factor in the calculation of a player and position rating. It has been found by experiment that scale multipliers for each input rating value to allow differentiation between player evaluations that are significant enough to select team players for playing proper positions based on skills evaluation are as follows:
The magnitude of 250,000 was selected by experiment based on the number of high primary skills for various soccer player positions. The lower scale multiplier values are ⅕, 1/9, 1/10, 1/14, and 1/15 of the 250,000 high primary skill scale multiplier value. Other ratio numbers were investigated and could be used; however, they tend to make the position rating value determination more complex than may be necessary for player position evaluation and selection.
A player evaluation measure is subjectively or objectively assigned for each of the skills of an athlete or player such as a soccer player by coaches, scouts, agents or others, see
The evaluation values or scores for each skill of a player are multiplied by the scale multiplier value for the same skill for each player position to obtain a weighted evaluation measure for each skill for a player, see
The process is repeated for each position for each player on a soccer or sports team. A matrix with rows identified as player positions and columns with each player name is then populated with the calculated player position ratings, see
The player position ratings may also be displayed for an individual player to determine, plan and counsel a player on how to improve or further develop certain skills for a particular player position or as a two side-by-side individual player table of score values to compare two players strengths and weaknesses to plan development of player skills for position specific strategies, see
The player position of goal keeper on a soccer team has different skills needs due to the nature of the position as compared to the field positioned as illustrated and calculated for
The player skills for soccer illustrated in
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with respect to the illustrated embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
Claims
1. A method to organize a team of soccer players comprising:
- a) selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player;
- b) establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation score to a player based on observing player performance;
- c) identifying the importance of each of the total number of skills in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for each skill and each position;
- d) establishing a rating scale multiplier value for each importance rating value to weight the importance rating value;
- e) multiplying a player's evaluation measure score for each skill times the rating scale multiplier value to obtain a weighted evaluation measure;
- f) summing the weighted evaluation measures for a player's skills and determining the average weighted evaluation value; and
- g) determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.
2. The method as in claim 1 wherein the process of 10 to determine the average weighted evaluation value further comprising: dividing the summed weighted evaluation measures by the total number of skills to obtain an average weighted evaluation value.
3. The method as in claim 1 wherein the process of 1g) to determine a player position rating further comprising:
- determining a rating factor using player evaluation measure scores of 100 entered for all skills multiplied by each rating scale multiplier to obtain the weighted evaluation measures that are then summed and that sum is then divided by the total number of skills to obtain a maximum average weighted evaluation value that is then factored to obtain a maximum position factor multiplier for each player position; and
- multiplying the summed weighted evaluation measures by the maximum position factor multiplier for the selected player position.
4. The method as in claim 2 wherein the total number of skills is 65 skills as illustrated in FIG. 1.
5. The method as in claim 1 wherein the set of skills is grouped in six areas as illustrated in FIG. 1.
6. The method as in claim 1 wherein the importance rating values are 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00, 2.25, and 2.50, with 1.25 as the lowest value and 2.50 as the highest value.
7. The method as in claim 6 wherein the scale multiplier values are as follows: Scale Multiplier Values Importance Scale Multiplier Rating Value Value 1.25 16,667 1.50 17,857 1.75 25,000 2.00 27,778 2.25 50,000 2.50 250,000
8. The method as in claim 1 wherein the player evaluation score values are in a range of 55 to 100 with the following scale for values of development needed 55 to 60, basic 65 to 70, moderate 75 to 80, strong 85 to 90, and high 95 to 100.
9. The method as in claim 1 wherein the process of 1c) is modified to identify the importance of each skill in the set of skills to a player for development of a player's skill for playing soccer and assigning a rating value for the skill.
10. The method as in claim 9 wherein identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills includes assigning an importance rating value for each skill that emphasizes the psychological and physical areas of skills with more importance that the tactical area, and the skills of the tactical area with more importance than the skills of the three technical areas.
11. The method as in claim 1 wherein a player's position rating is displayed and printed for use in player counseling.
12. The method as in claim 1 wherein the players' on a team of soccer players player position ratings are displayed in columns in a matrix correlated with each player position for the soccer team.
13. The method as in claim 1 wherein the player evaluation measures of at least two of the players on the soccer team are displayed in columns in a table correlated with each skill.
14. The method as in claim 1 wherein the player weighted evaluation measures of a team of soccer players are summed by each skill and the average weighted evaluation value for each skill is determined for a team score for each skill.
15. The method as in claim 14 wherein a table of skills and team scores is displayed for the soccer team.
Type: Application
Filed: Apr 1, 2014
Publication Date: Oct 1, 2015
Inventor: Sturge Mazzocchi (Stevenage)
Application Number: 13/999,901