Benefits of A Sports Coaching App

While there is an app for everything these days, it is no different in the world of sports. A sports coaching app has one goal: to make athlete evaluations easier.

Sports organizations, clubs, academies, and scouts can all benefit from an intuitive application to effectively score athletes, analyze player data, and make accurate decisions.

Reduce Evaluation Time

Time is our greatest asset, yet many coaches still evaluate athletes using pen and paper. Scores are written down, and data is transferred from paper onto a spreadsheet (score by score). Then, coaches have to spend hours setting up reports to analyze player data and make drafting and/or tactical decisions.

With a sports coaching app, score players from a mobile device or tablet. As scores are entered, they are safely secured on the back end and generated into reports & rankings for instant viewing. Coaches can now make tactical or coaching decisions in under an hour—not days!

Improve Communication

With a sports coaching app, athlete reports are sent via email to both athletes and their parents. As direct feedback is provided, coaches won't have to spend extra time conducting one-on-one feedback sessions (where information might not get fully processed by the receiving party).

Athlete reports not only improve the lines of communication between coaches, athletes, and parents, but they also increase transparency. No longer will players need to guess their strengths & weaknesses—individual athlete reports will provide all that information thoroughly.

Individual athlete reports on SkillShark

Compare Top Athletes

Imagine this: You are in the final stages of drafting your softball team, but you are stuck deciding between three athletes to draft for the batter position. On a sports coaching app, 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 softball 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.

Strengths vs Weaknesses Report in SkillShark

Make Quick Decisions

Typically, the process to decide which players make the team goes a little something like this:

1. Athlete scores are manually entered onto a printed form at an evaluation.

2. All printed forms are collected.

3. Scores are transferred one by one from a printed form to an Excel spreadsheet.

4. Charts or graphs must be set up to identify player insights.

The above process is extremely time-consuming, error-prone and laborious.

However, a sports coaching app is an all-in-one platform. An evaluation template is created & shared with evaluators, scores are entered through any mobile device, and reports are automatically generated. As a result, fast & accurate decisions can be made for team placement or tactical planning.

Customizable Experience

No two coaches have the same strategy & technique, so why should their evaluation experience be the same? With sports coaching apps, everything from evaluation templates to athlete report cards has the option to be customizable, meeting your specific coaching needs.

• Evaluation template- Select the skills & scoring ranges you would like to include in your template. *These can be quickly adjusted at any time during the year.

• Athlete report cards- Choose what an athlete sees when receiving feedback. SkillShark provides the option to add comments, videos, benchmarks, and developmental resources, making it as detailed as you would like.

• Player reports- Whether comparing players, tracking progress or looking at overall rankings, SkillShark offers reports for each use case. Additionally, they can be tailored to highlight only the players and skills that matter.

Wrapping Up

A sports coaching app has all the features in place to provide you with a stress-free and accurate evaluation process. Customize your evaluation experience, yield accurate results and, most importantly, save time throughout the evaluation process so you can quickly shift focus to what matters most—coaching.