Implementation of a digital Player Monitoring System: pmSys
Cong Nguyen Nguyen · NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives · 2015
Today football matches are often settled by the smallest margin possible.Teams will therefore try to find ways of gaining even the smallest of advantages over their opponent.Success and failure is often determined by how a team can keep their players healthy and rejuvenated throughout the course of a long season, which includes training matches, league matches and, for the top teams, tournament matches in Europe.Although it is impossible to predict whether a player will break a leg, injuries relating to overuse can be detected, and in many cases avoided.If we monitor a player daily, and build a strong foundation of data, it is possible to track the players condition so that we can maximize his performance, avoid fatigue and overtraining, while also prevent the player for getting injured as a result of overuse.In this thesis, we will discuss ways to design and develop a tailor-made system that will work as a supplement for trainers and coaches so that they can monitor their players.By giving football teams a better alternative for monitoring their players, rather than using a pen and paper, or even improving the already existing applications and systems, we hope to provide them with the edge that is often needed to succeed.The system is today deployed to the Norwegian national football team and several Norwegian Top Division teams.It is used daily by the coaches to monitor and supervise their players.I want to thank my supervisor Pål Halvorsen who has greatly helped me by providing guidance, ideas, discussion and feedback throughout this thesis.Your knowledge, commitment and positiveness is truly inspiring, and I am grateful for the opportunity to work on this exiting project.Furthermore, I wish to express my sincere thanks to Thuc Hoang and Kennet Vuong for their cooperation in this long journey.Their commitment and hard working attitude is what made this thesis possible, and I personally want thank the both of you for the support, motivation and encouragements during this thesis.I also wish to thank the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, and especially Håvard Wiig and Thor Einar Anderson for giving me the opportunity to combine my thesis with your PhD research.I am thankful to them for sharing their expertise in sports medicine