Enhancing Performance: Our Collaboration with the Houston Rockets
The Houston Rockets sought to enhance their performance analytics by integrating diverse data sources into a cohesive Athlete Management System (AMS). Leveraging expertise in data collection, ETL processes, AMS development, and actionable reporting, we collaborated to streamline their data workflows, enabling informed decision-making and optimizing player performance.
The Problem
- Performance data collected daily from a variety of sources, including
- GMS/Acceleromater/Gryoscope (Kinexon, Catapult)
- Force measuring (ForceDecks, ForceFrame)
- Gym-based hardware
- Data ecosystem constantly changing with new technology and player/staff needs
- Data needs to be processed quickly and returned to stakeholders for immediate use
- Current approaches typically required training and medical staff to create their own analyses, using tools like Microsoft Excel, which were not necessarily repeatable nor useful in collaboration
Objectives
- Data Management
- Audit the current data collection hardware and software processing completed by the club
- Assess the current data processing and use practices to identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement
- Organize the current data into more efficient and relatable structures
- Optimize the methods in which data are extracted and processed
- Insight Generation
- Understand the needs and desired of the on-the-ground staff on a daily, weekly, and periodic basis
- Create output products summarizing data including
- Performance Athlete Management System
- Daily reporting charts, reports, and leaderboards that are easy to read and understand
- Customized analysis of individuals or groups to inform training prescriptions
- Education
- Orient the staff on how to best use the data and to communicate actionable insights to coaching staff and front office
- Mentor coaches to better understand concepts related to sports science, biomechanics, and analytics
- Encourage a growth mindset for all staff to better utilize and execute the data-driven decisions created with our assistance
Strategies
- DeWitt Method identified current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the current data use by the team
- Through discussion and interaction, critical KPI and potential new data insight approaches were created
- Leverage database, AI, and coding to automate and expedite data processing, allowing for more effort to be spent developing insight to improve performance
Implementations & Deliverables
- API code developed to extract data from different sources into common data lakehouse
- Customized team report delivered after each game detailing player loading and intensity
- Custom dashboards summarizing and integrating force plate data from multiple tests to allow an integrated approach towards optimal player health and recovery
- Detailed and specific periodic reports to better understand player progress
Solutions
- Streamlined data extraction from various sources
- Created transformation code to process data into desirable metrics
- Developed customize reports based on stake-holder input and needs
- Reports delivered daily after each game via email and text message
- Custom analysis using machine learning and AI used as need to assess performance.
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