Monitoring Football Players On The Pitch

[looksgoodinred]

among other things, it can even measure "basic effort": "When a player claims he's putting in 110 percent, the coach can now consult an app and correct him with the precise actual number".

 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/sports-2/tracking-the-team-high-tech-monitors-will-track-every-mls-soccer-player.html

[Ke1t]

among other things, it can even measure "basic effort": "When a player claims he's putting in 110 percent, the coach can now consult an app and correct him with the precise actual number".

 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/sports-2/tracking-the-team-high-tech-monitors-will-track-every-mls-soccer-player.html

 

Very, very, very bad precedent.

[Club5]

among other things, it can even measure "basic effort": "When a player claims he's putting in 110 percent, the coach can now consult an app and correct him with the precise actual number".

 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/st...cer-player.html

 

I'm glad I didn't download the "Darren Mackie Goal Predictor" App on the Appstore. It cost zilch

[looksgoodinred]

Very, very, very bad precedent.

 

How so? It would just give coaching staff more information about their players (in real time) which would help them to play/train better, no? How can more, and more accurate, information be a bad thing?

[Ke1t]

How so? It would just give coaching staff more information about their players (in real time) which would help them to play/train better, no? How can more, and more accurate, information be a bad thing?

 

In isolation it's not a bad thing, but 'monitoring' your employees to that degree if the idea ever made the progression from sport to the rest of the workforce?

 

"We're just going to hook you up to this wee device to make sure you're not skiving off. And this camera at your desk will allow the boss to monitor how often you step away from your desk. "

 

I'm also not sure as to the value of the results.

 

Compare how much Darren Mackie runs around to the likes of Charlie Nicholas.

 

"Charlie, you only put in 1/10th the effort of Dazzlin Darren, you're oot, he's in."