Introducing Flags
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:34

Kinetic-Athlete Flags introduced

Are your players heading for injury or illness? Wouldn't it be great if you could log into your computer in the morning and call up a list of athletes who are at high risk of injury or illness. Well now you can with Kinetic-Athlete flags. Flags are highly customisable automated alerts that trigger when when certain results are recorded for an athlete.

So how do they work?
Kinetic-Athlete users will already be familiar with with the customisable athlete wellness and soreness forms. These are forms filled in daily by athletes logging into the system and filling in questions relating to how they feel and where they are sore. This data is then combined with performance results such as GymAware data over time and analysed. Customisable flags can then be created by the coach to raise an alert when certain conditions(triggers) occur.

Some examples:
• Trigger if quad soreness is trending up and jump power is decreasing then Red Flag - risk of injury

• Trigger if sprint times are peaking and jump power is peaking then Amber Flag - hitting PB's - could be good if peaking on competition day could also be a warning that the athlete is about to crash

• Trigger if general wellness is increasing and power is increasing then Green Flag - athlete is recovering

• Trigger if average jump power for team is trending up and individual is trending down - Red Flag - this athlete is not recovering as well as the squad is.
These are just a few simple examples of what you can do with flags. We have incorporated all the common statistical functions such as mean standard, deviation, regression slope, rolling average etc and you can apply these functions to your data very simply and then set thresholds or even create triggers by evaluating one analysis against the other. Kinetic-Athlete flags are very simple to use and are extremely powerful.

Once the flags are set up they will be run daily on all your athletes for all their data and then the athlete will be sorted into sub-squads of those at risk of injury or illness or athletes that are recovering well or not so well and so on. You can set this up to suit the way you work and of course we are here to help as well we can get you going with some simple flags that will immediately help you do you job more effectively.