System and method for organizing and training team athletic players

Abstract

A system and method for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. Player skills are evaluated relative to positions for a type of sport and player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills is displayed. The method may include selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player; establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation value to a player based on observing player performance; identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for the skill and position; calculating a weighted evaluation value and determining the average weighted evaluation value for a player's skills; and determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to systems and methods for evaluating athletic ability for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. The new system and method evaluates player skills related to positions for team play and presents player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills.[0002]Systems, equipment and methods may be known for measuring and evaluating key athletic ability and player skills, for example, athlete running speed, kicking speed, swinging speed that may be related to a bat, ball throwing speeds for a particular sport, and other like parameters and activities. Agility and strength are often other factors directly measured for an athlete to estimate individual performance.[0003]Various of these systems and methods use equipment and facilities for specific sports such as baseball, football, and soccer as well as others. Often the players and devices for playing in the sp...

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Benefits of technology

[0005]The present invention is directed to systems and methods for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. Player skills are evaluated relative to positions for a type of sport team play and displays are presented for player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills. The method may include selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player; establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation value to a player based on observing player performance; identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for the skill and position; establishing a scale multiplier value for each importance rating value to weight the importance rating value; multiplying a player's evaluation measure for each skill times the scale multiplier value to obtain a weighted evaluation measure; summing the weighted evaluation measures for a player's skills and determining the average weighted evaluation value; and determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.

Problems solved by technology

The types of methods used in evaluating or calculating and predicting athlete ability do not provide a method to organize and train a sports team such as a soccer team as well as develop players at various positions for improvement of the team and players.

When a skill is not correctly evaluated for a player position on a team there is a loss of accuracy and relationship / relevance to each position for organizing a team to play the game.

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