Using your statistics data to identify and
correct Player / Team problems
Seamas Plunkett
Laois Hurling
The Data supports striving for Continuous excellence in key elements of preparation;
Physical
Fitness /
Strength
Conditioning
Hurling
Skills /
Technical
Proficiency
Lifestyle
Facts /
Stats
Team Play &
Systems /
Tactical Ploys
Mental
Strength /
Focus
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Facts /
Stats
‘Scenario for this discussion’
• You have good preparation done and playing in Round 1 of C’ship
• You are clear on what system your team is playing
• You have practised it, your team is confident with it and have bought into it
• You have set your Goals
• You have a fair idea of how the other team is going to play
• Not able to cover every aspect today so ..... assume these are the key issues to
be monitored in this game;
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Our Puckouts
Their Puckouts
Tackling
Shooting / Shot selection
Implementing your Team System
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What problems are hurting you? What/Why is not executed well?
What is priority? Why is it priority?
How will you solve it ? How will you practice it?
Who will make it work for you?
• Decisions - You don’t have a lot of time to fix things:
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4.
Define the problem,
Isolate cause (not symptoms)
What are your Solutions?
Constraints to solutions?
You have got to know the facts >>>
They help you cut down the long grass
• “You do not just tell them. . . . . .you show them the reasons” - Vince Lombardi
Our Puck-Out strategy
• Range of PO Options you are using:
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Short PO to corner back and carry
Long and High to your catcher and catch or tap down
Create ‘clear-out’ zones to pop ball into : [8 & 9 bunch and break - clear low channel to 11]
Colleague works himself free to take PO
• Stats show your Success Rate – success Areas on Field? Is each option
working? What options are not working?
• What elements of options are not working?
• Is everyone clear on their roles in each option?
• What is opposition counter tactics?
• What corrective action can you take in the course of the game? At Half Time?
• Get some Team Feedback at HT? (8 & 9 poor timing of runs or 11 is screening)
• What corrective action can you take to prepare for the next game?
• Post Game debrief – Get some Team Feedback? Video analysis of POs.
• More intense Practice? Better positioning, Timing of runs. Amend.
Their Puck-Out strategy
• Range of PO Options they are using:
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Short PO to corner back and strike long
Long and High to their main catcher and he catches or taps down
They are trying to create clear-out zones to pop ball into
Colleague works himself free to take PO
• Stats show Success Rate at winning possession from their Puck-Outs?
• Primary
• Second Phase
• What is your defensive screen on their PO?
• Is it sufficient for each of their Options?
• What corrective action can you take in the course of the game? At Half Time?
• Get some Team Feedback at HT? (Mismatch?) (Defensive diamond?)
• What corrective action can you take to prepare for the next game?
• Post Game debrief – Get some Team Feedback? (Better info on opposition / Practic).
Tackling / Transitioning
• Hard Tackling vs Token tackling
• Backs
• Effective / Ineffective
• Tackles to turnovers
• Tackles to frees for opposition
o Technique? Wrap around to hold up / Bump.......
o Referee?
• Forwards
• Effective / Ineffective
• Tackles to turnovers
• Tackles to frees for opposition
o Technique? Wrap around to hold up / Bump.......
o Referee?
o Set tackle targets for Forwards / Review for opposition
• What corrective action can you take in the course of the game? At Half Time?
• Get some Team Feedback at HT? (Wrap around is conceding frees with referee? Technique: Hand release?)
• What corrective action can you take to prepare for the next game?
• Post Game debrief – Get some Team Feedback? (Practice technique / Bring a Referee to training).
• Video: Speed to tackle / Transition from turnover to attack
Shooting / Shot selection
• Shooting stats show high % of wides on Shots taken:
• Shooting on back foot vs front foot
• Shooting while under pressure and not recycling
• Or no supporting colleagues
• Was shot ‘on’ but just missed?
• Decision to keep shooting or to recycle
• Good Field position?
• What corrective action can you take in the course of the game? At Half Time?
• Get some Team/Player Feedback at HT? ( Break the tackle and drive through)
• What corrective action can you take to prepare for the next game?
• Post Game debrief – Get some Team Feedback? Video analysis
• (Practice break the tackle and support player off shoulder for pop pass)
Shot selection – 1st half field position
11
14
11
12
12
10
15
14
11
10F
10
6F
8
13
11
5
10
10F
5
14
6
CSFs to raise the performance bar
• You only see about 40% of what is going on in front of you!
• Know the critical KPIs for your team – Know the FACTS
• Analyse with your team - You have to be SPECIFIC
• Devise and take the necessary corrective actions
• Practice them if you have time
• Be flexible to adapt and change course if need be
• You will not fix everything in one game / Break it down and maintain
• ‘Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes
perfect.’
Vincent Lombardi
Using your statistics data to identify and
correct Player / Team problems
Any Questions?
Thank You
Seamas Plunkett
Laois Hurling