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🎙️Welcome to another episode of The Xtra Edge podcast! In this episode, we're joined by Eric Donoval, the Director of Sports Performance for Football at the University of Wyoming. Eric shares his insights on the evolution of data reliability and accuracy in sports performance, and how it has significantly improved over the years.



🏈 Mile-High Metrics

Eric discusses the advantages of using Local Positioning Systems (LPS) in their training, especially given the unique challenges of their location - 7200 feet up in the mountains where weather conditions often drive training indoors. He highlights how the LPS system provides the accuracy of a GPS system indoors, making it a crucial component of their winter training.



📊 Saddling Up Seamlessly

We delve into the specifics of their practice sessions, which often involve split practices with offense in the stadium and defense indoors. Eric explains how they seamlessly integrate data from these sessions, and how this ability to transition between indoor and outdoor training without missing a beat on data collection has been critical for their team.



📈 The Wyoming Way: Quantifying Cowboy Success

Eric also gives us a detailed look into the metrics they use for analysis, including workload, distance, high-speed yardage, excels, decels, top speed, mechanical load, and practice density. He emphasizes that these metrics provide a comprehensive view of the demands on the athlete, playing a crucial role in their analysis of team, position, or individual workloads.



🏃‍♂️ Ride for the Brand

Finally, Eric talks about the importance of monitoring top speed throughout the year. He shares how they progressively expose athletes to higher velocities, foster competition within the team with top speed leaderboards, and ensure athletes maintain their speed qualities by exposing them to intense sprinting once a week.



Join us for this insightful conversation and gain an Xtra Edge in your understanding of sports performance! 🎧



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🏀 Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we explore the fascinating intersection of traditional coaching wisdom and cutting-edge data analytics in the world of basketball. In this podcast, we sit down with Dimitris Itoudis -- a trailblazing coach who has left an indelible mark on EuroLeague basketball.

🔥 About Dimitris Itoudis

🏆 Winningest Coach
Dimitris boasts an impressive track record, having won over 70% of the games he’s coached. Notably, he holds the distinction of being the youngest coach to reach 200 wins in the EuroLeague.

🏆 EuroLeague Titles
With two EuroLeague titles under his belt, Dimitris has guided multiple teams to the final four, leaving an indelible mark on the European basketball landscape.

🌍 Global Impact
As the first Greek coach to win the EuroLeague with a foreign club, Dimitris has transcended borders and made a lasting impact on the game.

🏆 VTB United League Dominance
His coaching prowess extends beyond EuroLeague, as he clinched six VTB United League championships.

🏅 Accolades
Twice named EuroLeague Coach of the Year and a four-time VTB Coach of the Year, Dimitris is a true luminary in the coaching world.

📊 Data-Driven Coaching Philosophy
Itoudis asserts that the marriage and synergy of data and experience are what constitute the best decision-making from a coaching staff. He shares his understanding that data and experience, either without the other in this modern era of sports technology and load management, must have an orchestra in order to make a perfect composition, as he so aptly puts it in his musical analogy.

📈 Integrating Analytics
Dimitris and his staff recognize the power of data in understanding player performance, injury prevention, and workload management. Their decisions are grounded in data-driven insights.

🧠 Holistic Approach
While embracing analytics, Dimitris emphasizes a holistic coaching philosophy. He collaborates with strength and conditioning experts to strike the right balance between rest and activity.

📉 Load Management Insights
Drawing from experience, Dimitris navigates the delicate balance of protecting players as assets while fulfilling their aspirations. Data guides his decisions, ensuring optimal practice schedules and game minutes.

🎙️ Join Us
as we dive into the mind of a coach who seamlessly blends data-backed insights with coaching intuition. Whether you’re a basketball enthusiast, a coach, or simply curious about the game, The Xtra Edge podcast promises to be your go-to source for sports analytics enlightenment! 🎧🏀 Hit that Subscribe button and become a part of The Xtra Edge community today!

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Rik van Waes is the strength and conditioning coach for Heroes den Bosch, a Dutch professional basketball club based in the Netherlands, and playing in the BNXT League. He's been there since 2019. The team has won the Dutch National Championship, the Dutch Super Cup, and this year's Dutch Cup, which Heroes has now won 8 times.... Including 17 national championships. Coach van Waes talks about how much of a role data played in all of that success.

🏀 Data-Driven Insights

Rik explains that collecting data from every practice and game is crucial. One of the key metrics they focus on? Accumulated acceleration load, which provides a holistic view of practice intensity.

📊 Fine-Tuning Workloads

Heroes Den Bosch doesn't stop at raw data. Starters avoid overwork, while bench players develop effectively. It's all about finding the sweet spot between load and recovery.

🏋️‍♂️ Practice Insights

Analyzing practice phases reveals surprises. Rik's keen eye interprets the data, informing coaching decisions. If the numbers say it was a tough practice, the players felt it—even without asking them.

👥 Player Acceptance

Half the team was already familiar with IMU data from their Dutch national team experience. They understand that it enhances performance and recovery.

🏀 Using Data for Injury Rehab

Coach also explains how he uses data when helping injured players rehabilitate. He says the data provides him a sense of direction to take with each player, it forces him not to skip any steps in his return-to-play protocol and explains how some players come back even stronger.

👍 Recovery Stories

Rik tells a couple of great stories about how he used data and analytics to help the fastest player on the team get back after an ankle injury and what data did for another player who injured his knee.

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🎙️ Episode 9: Technology Complements Coaching

In this episode of The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast, we discuss the use of football data with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim's team researchers and sports performance experts, Dr. Sascha Hartel and Dr. Ludwig Ruf.



🌟 The Big Picture

We explore the immense possibilities and the realistic limitations of data and its collection. Understanding this broader context empowers us to evaluate major announcements from various companies more effectively.



🤨 Data Skepticism

Amid claims of injury reduction and predicting the next superstar, skepticism is essential. Many companies promise the moon, but separating feasible solutions from wishful thinking requires a discerning eye.



💪 Data's Power

Armed with robust datasets, we can distinguish between what's achievable and what's mere hype. It's about grounding expectations in reality.



🤔 Complex Challenges

Football is a multifaceted game, and answering questions about achieving specific results using data isn't straightforward. Factors like player availability, robustness, and contact injuries add layers of complexity.



⚽️ Data-Driven Decisions

Football data plays a crucial role in decision-making. It doesn't always change opinions outright, but it contextualizes and objectifies beliefs. Coaches and players benefit from data insights during rehab, training, and planning.



🎖 Anecdotal Wisdom

Football coaches often assert they can gauge player speed intuitively. However, actual measurements reveal surprises—players who defy expectations at both ends of the velocity spectrum.



💻 Small Leaks, Big Impact

Sometimes, a seemingly minor data point can open coaches' and players' eyes. Whether confirming or challenging existing beliefs, data helps refine strategies and enhance performance.



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🎙️ Episode 8: Presenting Coaches With Objective Measurements is a Game Changer

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 8 we're excited to have Kostas Chatzichristos as our guest. He is the Director of Performance at the Turkish powerhouse
Fenerbahçe Beko Istanbul. He discusses how the KINEXON PERFORM IMU system is helping to change the game in the EuroLeague.



📊 Data Changes the Approach

Access to data changed Coach Chatzichristos' approach, enabling him to equip coaches with crucial insights. It transcended mere technical details, shedding light on both the strengths and areas of improvement for players and coaches. The ability to visually demonstrate their performance through data significantly enhanced his interactions with both players and coaches.




🏋️ Players Have to be Ready

European players, who often juggle commitments between the EuroLeague and their national teams, typically participate in several games each week. However, during weeks with limited practice, minimal game time, and occasional off days, their productivity may be reduced. Coach explains how he keeps players ready for whenever their name is called.




🏀 Pro Game is Just Different

Coach Chatzichristos broke into basketball on the college level, in the USA. He also talks about the differences between the pro and college games, and why strength coaches need to approach each differently.



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🎙️ Episode 7: Empowering Basketball Coaches With Contextualized Insights

Welcome to The Xtra Edge: A KINEXON Sports Analytics Podcast where we dive deep into the world of sports performance, innovation, and triumph. In Episode 7 we're excited to have Jonas Bohner as our guest, a basketball analytics expert who works with many of the top teams and leagues all around the world. He discusses how KINEXON's AI basketball analytics solution specifically, KINEXON COMPETE Vision, is changing the game of basketball for coaches and players everywhere.



📊 It's Seamless

According to Jonas, the AI-powered KINEXON COMPETE Vision software is seamless in its integration with third-party optical tracking and camera providers, and is able to record, process, and report all of the analytics automatically. The only work required on the part of the user is to attribute assignments to players - a simple process that takes minimal time or effort.



🏀 Shot Load and Other Features

Jonas talks about how traditional basketball coaches might look at a shot map to get a good understanding of how players perform on the court, strictly from a shooting perspective. But this traditional method leaves out a vital facet of performance that some of the best and most successful basketball performance coaches are looking at nowadays: Shot Load, a new athletic performance metric that takes into account statistical shooting data. Jonas notes that KINEXON's basketball analytics platform automatically generates a Shot Load map specifically, the first of its kind. This Shot Load map takes player load and shooting percentages into account to give a more holistic view of that player's performance and efficiency. Jonas also emphasizes how it can give you an idea of where shooters need to improve, and how their load might be affecting their shooting performance from anywhere on the floor, at any point in the given session. This is all done without the need for wearable tech - the software uses AI to track the players and compile the data so that no time is wasted having staff members do so manually.



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