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Observations & Interviews
- Mr. W (Player/Recorder) - The Player/Recorder acts as a recorder when he is not on the court.
Key Takeaways:- given the medium in which stats are currently recorded (which requires drawing pictures to represent the direction of the volley) he suggested a tablet interface would be good for recording. He noted, however, that to encompass all the types of hits and errors that might occur within a volley might require more than what could fit on a single screen.
- The the limiting factor in taking stats is the person's ability to pay attention/process to all the events occurring
- Typically typically four people record (depending on the detail of stats desired). Creating a more efficient interface could reduce this number.
- It it is crucial to have some statistics within the game. For in-game analytics during a high level game, having two people recording stats is minimal.
- Typically typically the same people take stats.
- Taking taking stats is dependent on the recorder's knowledge level
- Storage storage and recall of information from previous games is hardly accessible.
- Only only "Box Score" is saved digitally. No other stats are entered.
- Stats stats determine HOW a group won. A coach looks at this to determine how a group beat another, and what to have their team improve on and who to put into the
- Mr. O (Player) -
- hitter tendencies are really important (where does each hitter hit)
- may decide to move players around based on hitting tendencies
- some players feel that the stats that are currently kept don't tell as complete of a story as the tape of a game
- there are some stats that should be recorded but aren't
- some players keep track of their stats in their head during the game!
- lot of information exchange between coaches and the team, even between points
- raw stats have little impact on choosing starting rotations
- using paper doesn't slow down decision making at match time, but it's difficult to store stats and aggregate them over many games
- would be great to have the opposing team's positional tendencies to find their defensive holes
- Mr. G (Recorder) -
- Mr. M (Coach) - Not yet interviewed but he did have this to say:"...none of the commercially available platforms seem to do everything I would want as a coach, so if you're open to input, I have tons and tons of things on the wishlist..."
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