Whether your sports organization has a group of full-time employees, a crew of volunteer coaches, or you are running evaluations on your own, everyone is looking to find extra time.

We discuss three ways in which SkillShark helps make the evaluation process a whole lot less complicated. Spend less time fidgeting with formulas or formatting reports and more time on what matters most: coaching.

1. Score Athletes on Mobile Devices

It is common for sports clubs and organizations to have Excel or PDF printouts of all the metrics that they wish to evaluate athletes on for an event. Traditionally, these are handed over to the evaluators running the evaluation, where hand-scribbled notes are taken.

*While using a software solution, evaluators can score athletes right from their mobile phones or tablets instead of printing out hundreds of paper forms.

2. Reduce Data Entry onto Excel

Once scores are collected by coaches and evaluators, they are stored on the backend and auto-generated into reports. All the coach has to do is select which athlete(s) they want to evaluate and which skill(s) they want to hone in on. From there, coaches can gain detailed insights into player performance right away.

The decision to use SkillShark with our national program has saved our coaches and evaluators weeks of data entry. SkillShark substantially contributes to the growth of each USSSA player with the collection of their metrics and performance data.

Courtney Ceo. USSA National Program Director

3. Access Auto-Generated Reports

No need to use Excel to try and configure reports (and confuse yourself along the way with formatting and formulas).

As mentioned, SkillShark provides coaches with access to auto-generated reports once scores are collected. Here are a few reports below:

• Individual Reports: This separates data for each player to be viewed individually. Players are able to see how they score on a specific skill, how they fare to the team average, and view any comments made by the evaluators. These reports can be exported to a PDF format and emailed to each player individually.
  
• Weighted Reports: This is best used when selecting players for a specific position. For instance, identify the metrics that are most important to you when choosing a shooting guard and assign a weight to them in your evaluation template (e.g., pull-ups, layups, and free throws). Using the weighted report, you will be able to see which players are most suited for your team’s shooting guard position.
  
• All Scores Reports: This report will showcase all collected scores in a grid-like format. Coaches can dive into a specific category (i.e., “physical” category in softball) or a specific skill (i.e., accuracy and mechanics skills in softball) to look at athlete scores.

All Scores report in SkillShark

The detailed metrics and analytics SkillShark provides have not only helped me identify areas for improvement but also track progress over time. This has been invaluable in tailoring training sessions to meet the specific needs of each player.

Jamie Dixon. Gold Coast United FC