The Camogie Association Coaching Articles 2nd edition

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By
Tomas Mount
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
& COACHING
This article is on the process of creating a hand
notation template and what tools to use. Some
people reading this article will have used hand
notation templates before while coaching and
working with teams, they are a great way to
help coaches make informed decisions in game
and help in planning on what a team needs to
improve.
a data or table form where we read or present
it back? Scatter diagrams (Figure 1) would be
our visual template. Frequency tables would be
our data heavy way in which we could read the
information from and sequential systems would
be the way to identify patterns. There are pros
and cons to all these systems which I will go
through now.
Hand notation templates are an easy way to
give coaches the information they need to
make these decisions. The beauty about hand
notation templates is that they can be designed
to be as detailed or simplistic as the user and
coach wants. Throughout this article we will talk
through the process of creating a template.
Before we start creating our templates, we
need to understand our coaches KPI’s which we
discussed in last week’s article. The KPI’s should
be dictating what we are tracking within our
template. The rationale for this is the KPI’s are
what a coach/ team deem to be critical for them
to be successful so these should be our bedrock
for our template. From last week’s article we
should have a list of KPI’s which we thought
about for our task so for this weeks’ article use
them for your template creation.
Figure 1 Scatter Diagram
Once we have decided what we want to
put into the template we can decide
what form of template or what way we
want the information. Do we want the
data back in a visual form? do we
want to be identifying patterns?
or do we want the information in