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Paul discusses the importance of accumulated acceleration load, a comprehensive metric that provides an overview of the stress being put on the women athletes' bodies. Paul also talks about the importance of managing mileage, especially the day before a game, to ensure the athletes are not overworked and are ready to compete. He factors in cycle monitoring, and how this plays a part in maintaining a high level of preparation for his athletes, as well as how it factors into the intensity of game prep and workouts. This is applied and evaluated on an individual basis, as different members of the team have different cycles, resulting in more moving parts from a performance planning perspective. Thus, Paul has to be very strategic and fluid in his scheduling for each athlete in order to ensure success as a whole.

He shares how he uses an Excel spreadsheet to create a "drill library", which helps the coaches understand what drills accumulate the most mileage, as well as plan practices efficiently.

One of the key insights in this episode is the concept of optimal practice time. Based on an article given to him by Pat Lewis (Charlotte's men's basketball strength coach), Paul found the optimal practice time, the day before a game, that gives his team the best odds to cover the spread. This doesn't guarantee a win, but it does give the team the best possible chance to compete effectively.

Paul's approach is data-driven, and he emphasizes the importance of using data to make informed decisions about practice intensity and duration. He shares his experiences and the successes and failures they've had with this approach.

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🎙️Welcome to another episode of The Xtra Edge podcast! In this episode, we're joined by Eric Donoval, the Director of Sports Performance for Football at the University of Wyoming. Eric shares his insights on the evolution of data reliability and accuracy in sports performance, and how it has significantly improved over the years.

🏈 Mile-High Metrics

Eric discusses the advantages of using Local Positioning Systems (LPS) in their training, especially given the unique challenges of their location - 7200 feet up in the mountains where weather conditions often drive training indoors. He highlights how the LPS system provides the accuracy of a GPS system indoors, making it a crucial component of their winter training.

📊 Saddling Up Seamlessly

We delve into the specifics of their practice sessions, which often involve split practices with offense in the stadium and defense indoors. Eric explains how they seamlessly integrate data from these sessions, and how this ability to transition between indoor and outdoor training without missing a beat on data collection has been critical for their team.

📈 The Wyoming Way: Quantifying Cowboy Success

Eric also gives us a detailed look into the metrics they use for analysis, including workload, distance, high-speed yardage, excels, decels, top speed, mechanical load, and practice density. He emphasizes that these metrics provide a comprehensive view of the demands on the athlete, playing a crucial role in their analysis of team, position, or individual workloads.

🏃‍♂️ Ride for the Brand

Finally, Eric talks about the importance of monitoring top speed throughout the year. He shares how they progressively expose athletes to higher velocities, foster competition within the team with top speed leaderboards, and ensure athletes maintain their speed qualities by exposing them to intense sprinting once a week.

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🏀 Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we explore the fascinating intersection of traditional coaching wisdom and cutting-edge data analytics in the world of basketball. In this podcast, we sit down with Dimitris Itoudis -- a trailblazing coach who has left an indelible mark on EuroLeague basketball.

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🎙️ Episode 9: Technology Complements Coaching

In this episode of The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast, we discuss the use of football data with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim's team researchers and sports performance experts, Dr. Sascha Hartel and Dr. Ludwig Ruf.

🌟 The Big Picture

We explore the immense possibilities and the realistic limitations of data and its collection. Understanding this broader context empowers us to evaluate major announcements from various companies more effectively.

🤨 Data Skepticism

Amid claims of injury reduction and predicting the next superstar, skepticism is essential. Many companies promise the moon, but separating feasible solutions from wishful thinking requires a discerning eye.

💪 Data's Power

Armed with robust datasets, we can distinguish between what's achievable and what's mere hype. It's about grounding expectations in reality.

🤔 Complex Challenges

Football is a multifaceted game, and answering questions about achieving specific results using data isn't straightforward. Factors like player availability, robustness, and contact injuries add layers of complexity.

⚽️ Data-Driven Decisions

Football data plays a crucial role in decision-making. It doesn't always change opinions outright, but it contextualizes and objectifies beliefs. Coaches and players benefit from data insights during rehab, training, and planning.

🎖 Anecdotal Wisdom

Football coaches often assert they can gauge player speed intuitively. However, actual measurements reveal surprises—players who defy expectations at both ends of the velocity spectrum.

💻 Small Leaks, Big Impact

Sometimes, a seemingly minor data point can open coaches' and players' eyes. Whether confirming or challenging existing beliefs, data helps refine strategies and enhance performance.

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🎙️ Episode 8: Presenting Coaches With Objective Measurements is a Game Changer

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 8 we're excited to have Kostas Chatzichristos as our guest. He is the Director of Performance at the Turkish powerhouse

📊 Data Changes the Approach

Access to data changed Coach Chatzichristos' approach, enabling him to equip coaches with crucial insights. It transcended mere technical details, shedding light on both the strengths and areas of improvement for players and coaches. The ability to visually demonstrate their performance through data significantly enhanced his interactions with both players and coaches.

European players, who often juggle commitments between the EuroLeague and their national teams, typically participate in several games each week. However, during weeks with limited practice, minimal game time, and occasional off days, their productivity may be reduced. Coach explains how he keeps players ready for whenever their name is called.

Coach Chatzichristos broke into basketball on the college level, in the USA. He also talks about the differences between the pro and college games, and why strength coaches need to approach each differently.

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🎙️ Episode 7: Empowering Basketball Coaches With Contextualized Insights

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 7 we're excited to have Jonas Bohner as our guest, a basketball analytics expert who works with many of the top teams and leagues all around the world. He discusses how KINEXON's AI basketball analytics solution specifically, KINEXON COMPETE Vision, is changing the game of basketball for coaches and players everywhere.

📊 It's Seamless

According to Jonas, the AI-powered KINEXON COMPETE Vision software is seamless in its integration with third-party optical tracking and camera providers, and is able to record, process, and report all of the analytics automatically. The only work required on the part of the user is to attribute assignments to players - a simple process that takes minimal time or effort.

🏀 Shot Load and Other Features

Jonas talks about how traditional basketball coaches might look at a shot map to get a good understanding of how players perform on the court, strictly from a shooting perspective. But this traditional method leaves out a vital facet of performance that some of the best and most successful basketball performance coaches are looking at nowadays: Shot Load, a new athletic performance metric that takes into account statistical shooting data. Jonas notes that KINEXON's basketball analytics platform automatically generates a Shot Load map specifically, the first of its kind. This Shot Load map takes player load and shooting percentages into account to give a more holistic view of that player's performance and efficiency. Jonas also emphasizes how it can give you an idea of where shooters need to improve, and how their load might be affecting their shooting performance from anywhere on the floor, at any point in the given session. This is all done without the need for wearable tech - the software uses AI to track the players and compile the data so that no time is wasted having staff members do so manually.

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🎙️ Episode 6: Data Helps Us Micro-dose More Effectively

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 6 we're excited to have Jeremy Portillo, Sports Performance Coach for Evansville Men's Basketball as our guest. The Purple Aces are fresh off an appearance in the College Basketball Invitational tournament where they pulled off an impressive first round upset of the sixth-seeded Quinnipiac Bobcats.

📊 "DOMINATE The Game" With Data

Coach Portillo shares his insights on the significance of volume metrics in basketball performance, emphasizing the need to stick with it, especially in the first season using a system, to see real results down the road. With accumulated acceleration load serving as his primary volume metric, he also cites the importance of finding an intensity metric to track, and why. After establishing the concept of density as the frequency of exposures to load and intensity, Coach Portillo explains how he takes the data from the KINEXON PERFORM IMU system and incorporates it into his own personal data collection process that he has developed. Using this remarkable process he shares, he is able to see the frequency of exposures for each individual athlete in the rotation and on the scout team, to best evidence which players are game-ready from a performance perspective vs. which players need more development or recovery time.

Based on the data Coach Portillo collects, he's able to reincorporate the data into ever-evolving training programs tailored to the physical needs and limits of his athletes. With a micro-dosing technique that spreads shorter workouts at varying intensities over the course of a week, he's able to ensure bench players are growing and developing effectively while starters are not being overworked in the weight room or in drills. The Purple Aces' Sport Performance Coach also explains why he hates it when he sees his players backpedaling down the floor as well as why he advocates otherwise.

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🎙️ Episode 5: Coaches Buying into Our GPS Helped Our Offense Set Program Records

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 5 we're thrilled to have Lyle Henley, the Director of Sports Performance at the University of Alabama Birmingham Football, as our guest. Lyle shares his insights on the role of sports analytics in enhancing athletic performance.

🏈 "There's No Such Thing as Being Too Strong"

Coach Henley discusses the importance of understanding where an athlete's strengths lie and where improvements can be made, and he emphasizes that while there's no such thing as being 'too strong' or 'too fast', it's crucial to strike a balance to optimize performance. From conditioning to speed profiling, Coach Henley talks about how data is used in training, explaining how KINEXON PERFORM GPS Pro data specifically ensures athletes are training in the right zones and not overexerting themselves in others.

📊 "Do Your Homework"

Coach Henley shares the story of when Head Coach Trent Dilfer went to campus and told him that he was "not a GPS guy." Henley shares the strategy he used to win his head coach over and show him the power that sports data can offer his team.

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This episode is a must-see for anyone interested in the intersection of sports and data. Tune in to learn how being 'data-informed' rather than 'data-driven' is making a significant impact in sports performance.

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🎙️ Episode 4: Data Helped Us Increase Power, Even With Increased Volume of Work

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 4 our host Dave Grendzynski sits down with Stanford's Associate Athletic Director, Applied Performance Tyler Friedrich to discuss how Tyler manages to increase volleyball athlete power output in the face of exhaustion with workouts, practices, games, and other sessions ramping up.

📊 Match Points, Data Points, and Key Points for Peak Power Output

Tyler recaps his top 3 metrics and key points of data analysis that are most important to him, especially where timing is concerned as the volleyball season ramps up. He runs through the effectiveness of different approaches he uses to building strength and resultant power, including the schedule of concentric and ecentric exercises that build up his athletes.

🏐 The Power Spike: Training for Explosiveness|

Tyler shares what velocity and force mean to volleyball, how a session can be optimized to train for a high degree of explosiveness at match intensity, depending on the calendar and session scheduling. He explains exactly how he's able to get his athletes training correctly so that their power is at its highest when the season is on the line.

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