System and method for organizing and training team athletic players

Abstract

A system and method for organizing and training players for participation in a team sport. Player skills are evaluated relative to positions for a type of sport and player position ratings for use in organizing a team of players and further developing player skills is displayed. The method may include selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player; establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation value to a player based on observing player performance; identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for the skill and position; calculating a weighted evaluation value and determining the average weighted evaluation value for a player's skills; and determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A method to organize a team of soccer players comprising:
 a) selecting a set of skills important for an athlete to be a successful soccer player;   b) establishing a player evaluation measure for assigning a player evaluation score to a player based on observing player performance;   c) identifying the importance of each of the total number of skills in the set of skills for each of the player positions for a soccer team and assigning an importance rating value for each skill and each position;   d) establishing a rating scale multiplier value for each importance rating value to weight the importance rating value;   e) multiplying a player's evaluation measure score for each skill times the rating scale multiplier value to obtain a weighted evaluation measure;   f) summing the weighted evaluation measures for a player's skills and determining the average weighted evaluation value; and   g) determining a player position rating for a player for each player position on a soccer team.   
     
     
         2 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the process of 10 to determine the average weighted evaluation value further comprising: dividing the summed weighted evaluation measures by the total number of skills to obtain an average weighted evaluation value. 
     
     
         3 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the process of 1g) to determine a player position rating further comprising:
 determining a rating factor using player evaluation measure scores of 100 entered for all skills multiplied by each rating scale multiplier to obtain the weighted evaluation measures that are then summed and that sum is then divided by the total number of skills to obtain a maximum average weighted evaluation value that is then factored to obtain a maximum position factor multiplier for each player position; and 
 multiplying the summed weighted evaluation measures by the maximum position factor multiplier for the selected player position. 
 
     
     
         4 . The method as in  claim 2  wherein the total number of skills is 65 skills as illustrated in  FIG. 1 . 
     
     
         5 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the set of skills is grouped in six areas as illustrated in  FIG. 1 . 
     
     
         6 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the importance rating values are 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00, 2.25, and 2.50, with 1.25 as the lowest value and 2.50 as the highest value. 
     
     
         7 . The method as in  claim 6  wherein the scale multiplier values are as follows: 
       
         
           
                 
               
                     
                 
                   Scale Multiplier Values 
                 
                 
                 
                 
               
                     
                   Importance 
                   Scale Multiplier 
                 
                     
                   Rating Value 
                   Value 
                 
                     
                     
                 
                 
                 
                 
               
                     
                   1.25 
                   16,667 
                 
                     
                   1.50 
                   17,857 
                 
                     
                   1.75 
                   25,000 
                 
                     
                   2.00 
                   27,778 
                 
                     
                   2.25 
                   50,000 
                 
                     
                   2.50 
                   250,000 
                 
                     
                     
                 
             
                
                
               
            
             
                
                
                
               
            
             
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
         8 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the player evaluation score values are in a range of 55 to 100 with the following scale for values of development needed 55 to 60, basic 65 to 70, moderate 75 to 80, strong 85 to 90, and high 95 to 100. 
     
     
         9 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the process of 1c) is modified to identify the importance of each skill in the set of skills to a player for development of a player's skill for playing soccer and assigning a rating value for the skill. 
     
     
         10 . The method as in  claim 9  wherein identifying the importance of each skill in the set of skills includes assigning an importance rating value for each skill that emphasizes the psychological and physical areas of skills with more importance that the tactical area, and the skills of the tactical area with more importance than the skills of the three technical areas. 
     
     
         11 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein a player's position rating is displayed and printed for use in player counseling. 
     
     
         12 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the players' on a team of soccer players player position ratings are displayed in columns in a matrix correlated with each player position for the soccer team. 
     
     
         13 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the player evaluation measures of at least two of the players on the soccer team are displayed in columns in a table correlated with each skill. 
     
     
         14 . The method as in  claim 1  wherein the player weighted evaluation measures of a team of soccer players are summed by each skill and the average weighted evaluation value for each skill is determined for a team score for each skill. 
     
     
         15 . The method as in  claim 14  wherein a table of skills and team scores is displayed for the soccer team.