Wednesday, 9 May 2012

SportsCode

I wanted to write quickly about my experience with a video analysis product I've recently been working with and learning about at the AIS. SportsCode is software that allows users to capture, code, edit, analyse and make movies - in most cases, using footage of training and competition. If you're unfamiliar with it, this video gives a great explanation and demonstration of what it is and how it can be used.


What I've found is that one of the greatest advantages of the product, can at times be a disadvantage if you're not careful. The software is incredibly flexible, the only constraints when choosing what information you want to retrieve and analyse from your footage is your imagination. However you can quickly find yourself trying to look at so many things at once, that you easily miss things or even forget about the sport as a whole and what you're actually trying to get out of it.

Between myself, the football program's technical director and a staff member from performance analysis, we are currently working to create what is called a 'coding window', which will be enable us to gather all the information we need, yet still be user friendly to our inexperienced selves. I think one of the first things you need to do is determine what you actually want to look at within the sport. For us, it begins with the 'four main moments in football' and from there deciding which particular instances will be helpful and actually mean something to the coaches and players which we present our finished product to.

This is just one of many video analysis software products going around and I just wanted to quickly write about my experience with it. Have you ever used SportsCode or a similar product?

To finish off, here's a video where Dublin Football talk about their experience with SportsCode - giving views from coaches, players, management staff and analysts.



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