Sports Data Campus and Futbika Metrics have formed a partnership to drive innovation in the analysis of football performance, incorporating new sources of information that enable a better understanding of players’ condition and its relationship to sporting performance. This collaboration aims to provide football professionals with tools that integrate physical and performance data with variables relating to players’ individual perceptions, thereby broadening the perspectives from which analysis is carried out and decisions are made within the sporting environment.
FUTBIKA METRICS: A NEW DIMENSION IN PLAYER ANALYSIS
Futbika Metrics is a platform designed to enable clubs to incorporate information on the condition and perceptions of their own players into their analysis systems. Through this platform, it is possible to collect data on variables such as sleep, energy levels, fatigue, stress, motivation, perceived exertion (RPE), team dynamics, satisfaction with the coaching staff, social life and physical discomfort.
All this information is organised using an approach that prioritises privacy, through the use of anonymous codes and aggregated data. In this way, clubs can gain a complementary perspective on their players and identify factors that could influence their wellbeing, preparation and performance.
One of the platform’s key features is its ability to integrate this data with performance information from third-party GPS systems. Futbika Metrics facilitates the incorporation and organisation of data sets, generating visualisations that allow both sources to be viewed within a single environment. Based on this integration, the tool applies statistical methods – such as Pearson’s correlation, statistical significance analysis, threshold assessment and pattern detection – to explore possible relationships between players’ perceived state, training loads and sporting performance variables.
‘There is an aspect of a footballer’s reality that we still know very little about: how they are feeling, what motivates them, how they perceive their situation and what is happening around them. At Futbika, we want to bring this information to light – from motivation and happiness to fatigue, their perception of their workload or their level of integration within the team – whilst always protecting the player’s privacy.
The next step is to link these indicators with the information that clubs already generate, such as GPS and performance data. In doing so, new relationships and patterns emerge that can help professionals better understand which factors are actually influencing their teams’ performance.
For this new perspective to take root within professional football, it is not enough simply to create technology: professionals working with data need to be able to identify new sources of information, interpret them and turn them into useful knowledge. Sports Data Campus’s work in training the next generation of professionals in the world of football represents an extraordinary opportunity to drive this evolution and bring this new dimension of analysis to clubs.”
— Raúl Pérez Sidro, founder of Futbika Metrics.
“This partnership with Futbika Metrics enables us to incorporate a particularly valuable perspective into performance analysis: the information provided by the players themselves regarding their physical, emotional and social well-being. Integrating these insights with GPS data and other performance metrics can help professionals ask better questions, identify patterns and gain a deeper understanding of each player’s context.
At Sports Data Campus, we want our students to work with new sources of information, learn to interpret them rigorously and understand that a correlation must be analysed before it becomes a conclusion. Futbika Metrics’ approach also places privacy at the heart of the process, an essential principle when handling personal data. Together, we will bring a more comprehensive, responsible and practical approach to analysis in football to training programmes and clubs.”
— David R. Sáez, CEO of Sports Data Campus
TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE APPLIED TO FOOTBALL
Through this collaboration, Sports Data Campus and Futbika Metrics will work to bring this new dimension of analysis to football professionals, promoting awareness of the platform and its potential applications in real-world contexts. The initiative opens up new avenues for students to familiarise themselves with complementary data sources, develop applied analysis projects and explore how the combination of physical and perceptual information can contribute to a broader understanding of performance.
This synergy links technological innovation with specialised training and professional practice, fostering the development of professionals capable of interpreting complex information and transforming it into useful knowledge for clubs. In this way, both institutions are committed to a more comprehensive approach to analysis, in which data not only enables the measurement of what happens on the pitch, but also allows for the exploration of factors that may help explain performance.
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF SPORTING PERFORMANCE
The partnership between Sports Data Campus and Futbika Metrics represents a step towards a broader approach to football analysis, in which technology, statistics and player knowledge complement one another to enhance evaluation and decision-making processes. Both organisations share an interest in promoting new methodologies that enable clubs to make better use of the available information and move towards working models that are increasingly knowledge-based.
This collaboration reinforces both organisations’ commitment to innovation, continuous training and the development of solutions that meet the current needs of football, whilst keeping the player at the centre of the process and treating privacy as an essential element.
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