"Products and metrics to better analyse training and athlete performance" (R. Byrne, STATSports)

"We work in performance monitoring and provide endless metrics so naturally when the system is used to its maximum potential there is a reduction in injuries," said Richard Byrne, the head of marketing of STATSports, an agency which provides athlete monitoring in sport, on 11/12/2015.

"What (the founders of STATSports, Alan Clarke and Sean O'Connor) began doing in 2008 was offering a sports science service with multiple products to teams around the UK and Ireland. But it just wasn't quite advanced enough. It was just generic products, almost sold off the shelf, and coaches wanted more, they wanted different metrics to allow them to analyse training in much more depth," added Richard Byrne.

Here, Byrne talks about STATSports' flagship Viper Pod system and the benefits its data can bring to sports clubs in their analysis of player performance.

"The Viper Pods collect all sorts of metrics at a rate of over 100 numbers per second. There are a lot of basic metrics: speed, accelerations, decelerations, sprints, etc. But then we have developed a great deal of innovative metrics, things such…