How to Detect American Football Metrics

What are the American Football Metrics?

Catapult's American Football Metrics allow for our powerful algorithms to detect Football specific events such as Lineman Contacts, Quarterback Throws and Impacts alongside a host of Football specific Parameters. This allows practitioners to make more informed decisions on load management whilst also providing Football specific performance insights.

Setting Up to use the Football Metrics? 

Steps on how to set up for American Football Metrics (both internal and external)

1. The following OpenField modules and plugin can be applied to your account for Football Metrics.
   If you want to add any of the module/plugin please contact support for assistance.
   • Lineman Contact plugin and module
   • Football Throws 
   • Football Impacts 
     
      

2. Set the Bands for 'Contact Load', 'Throw Load', and 'Impact Load'.
    

   'Contact Load' Bands are for Lineman Contact Parameters, 'Throw Load' Bands are for Football Throw Parameters and 'Impact Load' Bands are for Football Impact Parameters.

   These Bands can be set by following the steps in our Bands article.

   Please select 'Contact Load', 'Throw Load', or 'Impact Load'  from the drop-down menu. 
   For both Impact Load and Throw Load, only Bands 1 through 5 are applicable.  If you have any questions on the band settings, please reach out to your Catapult Sports Scientist.

   

Detecting and Viewing Football Metrics in the OpenField Console

Detecting and analyzing American Football Metrics in the OpenField Console can be done post Activity in the OpenField console.

Lineman Contacts, Quarterback Throws and Football Impacts are all Events that can be graphed but only Quarterback Throws and Football Impacts can be viewed in an Effort / Events table.

1. Open the Activity with the OpenField Console.
2. Graph the desired athletes. See Graphing Data for more information.

3. Right-click on one of the Athlete's Name at the end of the Velocity Trace/Graph then select Events > Version 2 > Lineman Contacts, Football Impacts or QB Throws depending on the Events you want to view.

   

4. Hover over each event flag for a summary of individual or grouped 'Lineman Contacts', 'Football Impacts' or 'QB Throws' Data.

   

   

5. Create a new Dashboard if desired. 
6. In any Dashboard, right-click on any white space on the Dashboard > Select New Widget > Select Efforts / Events > Select Quarterback Throws or Football Impacts depending on the Events you want to view. See Console Widgets for more information.
   
    
7. Select the athlete(s) from the drop-down menus to view data for all or each individual athlete.
   
   
   
   
8. Sync from the OpenField Console to send data to the Cloud for analysis.

Viewing Football Metrics on the OpenField Cloud

Detecting and analyzing American Football Metrics in the OpenField Cloud can only be post Activity.

1. Navigate to the OpenField cloud and click the Settings gear icon on the widget you want to modify.
2. From the Settings menu click the Parameters Tab and then select any metric from the Football, Quarterback Throws or Lineman Contacts categories depending on the Data you want to view.
   (i.e. Widget Settings > Parameter Tab > Lineman Contacts > select any Parameter).
3. Load the appropriate Activity(s) and view the Data in the widget.

Football Metrics Parameter Definitions

American Football Parameters definitions can be found in our American Football Parameter Definitions article.