“One of the biggest hurdles that coaches often feel is that they’re overwhelmed by how complicated data collection can seem, and many times they don’t even know what to do with the data that they get.”
Elvis Pereymer, CTO and Co-Founder of RockDaisy joins SimpliFaster’s Nate Huffstutter for a compact and informative discussion about ways that coaches can use RockDaisy’s Athlete Management System (AMS) to make their workflows more efficient.
“Coaches can feel like they need to be a data scientist to use an AMS, but that’s not the case with RockDaisy,” says Pereymer. “We emphasize time-saving. At the end of the day, coaches we speak to spend hours on Excel and Google Sheets, and while it’s great that you have that skill, let’s get back to coaching and we help with that.”
Connection Short Take #1: Elvis Pereymer on ways to simplify data collection and visualization. We emphasize time-saving—coaches we speak to spend hours on Excel and Google Sheets, and while it’s great that you have that skill, let’s get back to coaching, says Elvis Pereymer @RockDaisyAMS. Share on X
Pereymer emphasizes that everything in their system is treated as a metric. This allows for immediate use of the software with basic inputs like attendance, which can then be visualized in templates that create a green-yellow-red indicators or other effective presentations. Additionally, with their vendor APIs, RockDaisy can sync, integrate, and present data from a wide range of popular technologies, from GPS to force plates to timing systems and much, much more
The Connection Episode 3. Watch the full episode with RockDaisy CTO & Co-Founder Elvis Pereymer.
“We’ve designed our dashboard templates to be incredibly flexible so they can work regardless of the data source you’re using,” Pereymer says. “Let’s say you’re collecting vertical jump data with a contact mat and you want to start visualizing it. You can use a dashboard we call ‘The Daily Trend by Athlete’ where you simply choose vertical jump as your metric, choose a date range, choose a group of athletes, and instantly you’ll have that data broken down over time, but with some context to it.”
Connection Short Take #2: Elvis Pereymer on the practicality and flexibility of RockDaisy’s dashboards.
Expanding on their mission to make data collection and communication a seamless process, RockDaisy have also begun developing workout builder tools for coaches to deliver programming directly to their athletes either via traditional printed training cards or digitally to the athlete’s device.
“Our workout builder is evolving,” Pereymer says. “But today a coach can create multiple programs and have each program individualized per athlete…and we have multiple delivery methods to deliver that to an athlete.
For more practical ways to use RockDaisy’s software tools, read:
- “Demystifying APIs (to Spend More Time Coaching and Less Time Managing Data),” by Chris Tanck.
- “Unlocking Success: The Benefits of Baseline Athlete Performance Tests,” by Chris Tanck.
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