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Performance analyst
Turns tracking and models into decisions. Needs shared definitions, false-alarm owners, and numbers that survive match week.
- The 8-second penalty rule: what 1,200 goalkeeper possession timers taught UEFADefine · For football coaches, goalkeeping directors, performance analysts, and match officials preparing for Law 12 countdown enforcement.
- 560 pings a second. Why football's smart ball changes what video referees can see.Discover · For technical directors, competition managers, match analysts, and broadcast teams assessing connected ball officiating technology.
- Sleep in, swim faster? What happened when a 7 a.m. session moved to 9 a.m.Design · For swimming coaches, performance directors, and athletic development staff structuring training schedules and sleep protocols.
- Cognition as a number: measure it, train it, or baseline it?Data · Clubs are buying brain tools for late-game chaos that GPS never fixed. Under one word on the invoice they often buy three different jobs:…
- Still winning in the 70th minute. Still losing the night.Design · Five substitutes are permanent. A 48-team World Cup adds matches, heat and travel. Peter Krustrup's blunt take: you need about 18 to 20 p…
- Two seconds to challenge the umpire. Catchers learned fastest.Data · MLB's first full season with automated ball-strike challenges produced an overturn rate near 54%. The more revealing number belongs to ca…
- A Premier League club can pass England's spending test and fail UEFA's. Here's why.Define · The Premier League's new Squad Cost Ratio allows clubs to spend up to 85% of football revenue and net transfer profits on their squads. U…
- Clubs bought the GPS. The injuries still arrived. What was missing?Define · Football can now measure almost every metre a player runs. That still does not reliably tell a club who will get injured. GPS measures lo…
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