Types of Athlete Reports to Run

You have just completed your spring tryouts. After scoring athlete performance on a variety of drills, two big questions loom over you: “Which players should we draft onto the team, and which positions are they best suited for?”

The answer to these questions will come from the data found in athlete reports. Rather than trying to manually configure these reports, which poses a risk of data loss and inaccurate results, SkillShark handles the task of generating reports for you.

Once players are evaluated on your mobile device, scores are safely stored on the back end and auto-formattedinto 7 types of reports. All that is required from you is to select the report you want to view and choose the players & skills to analyze.

Let’s run through the 7 types of athlete reports you can run with SkillShark!

1. All Scores Report

The All Scores Report gives you a complete overview of player performance. More specifically, you can look at player performance in two ways:

1. See how players rank within a skill (i.e., Dribbling, passing, rebounding, and shooting in this example below).

2. See how players rank overall. 'Category overall' weighs each skill equally to give you an average overall score for a player.
   

All scores grid report. Overview of all skills within basketball

All scores report. Overview of all metrics within defense (skill).

2. Athlete Report Cards

Beyond verbal feedback at practices, athletes will gain a solid understanding of the areas they are excelling at and what they need to work on via athlete report cards.

Once scores are collected from your event(s), you can make some quick & easy customizations to the report, controlling what the athlete sees (i.e., displaying overall rank and skill rank). After being configured to your liking, reports are ready to be sent directly to your players’ inboxes!

Athlete report cards

SkillShark has been an invaluable tool for our tryouts. We have used it with nearly 400 athletes and it has been a great addition to our participants and parents, who now receive a professional-level report cards after each tryout. We will be SkillShark users for life!

Justin Dee—Delta Region Volleyball, Director

3. Tiered Draft Reports

Automatically rank & draft players onto teams in less than 2 minutes (without any data entry or report setup).

For instance, a tiered draft report can be created for the “Forwards” position in hockey. I.e, Skating and shooting might be deemed slightly more important than passing; therefore, they will both be allocated a higher weight.

Based on these weightings, SkillShark will rank the 'Forwards' players and automatically draft them onto ranked or balanced teams.

Tiered draft reports

4. Player Comparison Reports

Let's suppose you have one batter left to choose for your baseball team. Looking at the ranking report, it is hard to decipher which player is the best performer in this area. With SkillShark, you can use the strengths vs. weaknesses report to compare up to 3 players (across any skill) and make your final drafting picks confidently.

In the example below, three baseball players are compared against one another on their batting performance: placement, mechanics, and contact. By focusing on a few position-specific metrics, you can now accurately determine which athlete would be the strongest batter.

Player comparison reports

5. Athlete Self-Assessments

Self-assessments help athletes reflect on their abilities and set new goals while enabling coaches to gain valuable insights into an athlete's self-perception.

Any of your evaluation metrics can be rephrased into self-assessment questions. If we take the evaluation metric ‘Lay Ups’, you can ask your athletes to rank their confidence within this skill on a scale of 1-10. Additionally, you can ask your athletes to set a goal for how many layups they want to achieve for a specific time period, giving them something concrete to work toward.

Athlete self-assessments

6. Individual Development Reports

Individual development reports give you a clear snapshot of each player’s growth. Once you’ve selected metrics, you can view the historical data for each. For example, you can track an athlete’s progress—or setbacks—in their hitting mechanics over the course of the season.

Athletes can visually see the impact of their efforts, and you can use this data to refine your coaching technique (i.e., add additional practice drills to help a player improve hitting contact in baseball).

Individual development reports

SkillShark is hugely beneficial for our athlete development, as we can easily track their progress and identify areas for growth.

Phil Jevtovic. Senior Manager — Basketball Canada

Wrapping Up

Whether making team drafting decisions at the beginning of the season, gauging players’ self-perception mid-season, or comparing player development at the end of the season, SkillShark's reports offer insights at any time.

With real-time insights and a user-friendly interface, delving into player analytics has never been easier.