On the 10th November, Catapult hosted the second-annual Performance Analysis Conference (PAC21) – gathering more than 500 attendees globally from over 20 different countries around the world. Over the course of one day, nine main sessions featured 10 speakers and panelists with expertise in performance analysis, wearables, and elite sports teams.
These are the key trends and reflections based on this year’s conference:
Player Development: A Holistic Approach - Philipp Grobelny Fortuna Dusseldorf, First Team Analyst
During a player development process, coaches and analysts need to monitor and nurture each facet of a player's development. A constant understanding of the players technical, tactical, and psycho-social development is crucial to maximising potential. Phillip speaks on how he focuses on all facets of a players development and the tactics he uses in training and in games to help develop players, with specific reference to one of his players Kristoffer Peterson.
During his presentation, Grobelny went through the following themes:
Development of Technology and Use of Technology in Football
The use of technology in football and other sports is becoming more commonplace, as well as necessary, the ways in which teams approach game week using video analysis and performance analysis tools is changing how teams approach games. James Lovell, Assistant Director of Football Operations at Fulham FC shared his thoughts on how the club are embracing technology and what other clubs can focus on to get that implementation streamlined.
This session highlighted 3 main benefits for elite sports teams:-
An Expansion Journey - Oliver Miller-Farrell Nashville SC Head of Strategy & Analytics
Nashville SC are the latest franchise to join the ranks of the MLS with Oliver spearheading their analytics at the club. Nashville SC have created their infrastructure from scratch and are utilizing technology to streamline their performance analysis process to improve player and team performance. In this session Oliver explains how his role is in many ways is how the club collects data and information, and explains how the club links certain data or information sets together to see how a player performs on the field or how they're performing in training.
This session highlighted 3 main benefits for elite sports teams:-
Panel Debate: Developing World Class Talent Through Technology
The growing sophistication of performance analytics software allows elite sports teams to quickly leverage their sources of information bringing video and data together better. Catapult solutions allow for streamlining efficiencies, saving time and resources. During this Panel Debate, Fortuna Dusseldorf’s - Philipp Grobelny & Fulham FC’s - James Lovell spoke on how do you get your coaching staff to buy into and transition to new technology and workflows and what the most common mistake clubs make when looking to implement technology.
This session highlighted 3 main benefits for elite sports teams:-
Fireside Chat - Andrew Butterworth, Lecturer, Loughborough University
One of the world's leading universities in sport, Loughborough University set's the bar high when it comes to sport as they have won the British Universities & Colleges Sports championship for the past 40 years running. We sat down with Andrew from Loughborough University to hear how he and the rest of the team are constantly innovating both on and off the field.
This session highlighted 3 main benefits for elite sports teams:-
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