England Rugby League Uses Qlik to Enhance Team Performance
October 06 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
England uses Qlik to analyze team data and see where
improvements can be made to overall performance
Qlik® (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in visual analytics, today
announced that the England Rugby League team is using QlikView® to
analyze its player, match, and talent data to gain better insights
into the way the team is playing and, ultimately, enhance their
performance.
The England national team has a plethora of player match,
training, GPS, and physiological data and statistics. Its
performance division wanted to find a way to better analyze this
information and give head coach Steve McNamara insights on how to
get the best from the team. England therefore approached dedicated
QlikView provider QlickIT, who suggested running the information
through the visual analytics platform.
Initially, England built an app that could help them analyze
data to inform its player selection for different games. The app
has all of the players’ latest match and training metrics –
anything from how far they travelled on the pitch to the number of
tries scored/assisted, through to their average speed. These
statistics are then matched up against available data on the
opposing team’s skillsets and recent performances. It is then
visualized in QlikView and presented back to McNamara so he can
make more informed decisions about which players to pick – and the
most effective training regimes to put them through to prepare them
appropriately for the upcoming match.
The eventual aim will be for McNamara to use QlikView in
real-time, so he is able to receive information at half-time about
the first-half performance and make informed decisions on changes
that could impact the course of the game.
QlikView is also being used to analyze data on young players
that are coming through England’s development system, looking at
their skillsets and performance data to see how they could fit into
the international team in the future. Statistics are analyzed
against the data of successful international players to get an idea
of which aspiring players look likely to be winners in the
future.
“Ultimately, we wanted to find a way to make better sense of all
the match data and statistics we already had within the league, so
we could see what was truly happening in regards to the England
team’s performance,” says Jonathan Roberts, Director of Performance
& Coaching, RFL.
“We wanted to either be able to challenge misconceptions or use
data-based evidence to prove to ourselves that certain team
line-ups, training initiatives or tactics just simply weren’t
working.
“With QlikView, we can pull all of our data together and the
insights are there for us to use for future team development and
make tactical changes to improve the way we are playing.”
“The RFL’s use of Qlik to get better insights on the England
team’s performance shows just how valuable proper use of data can
be in the Board room, or on the playing field,” said James Fisher,
vice president of global product marketing at Qlik. “So many sports
teams have reams of statistics at their disposal, and using an
analysis platform to visualize data in the right way can give them
a real advantage on the pitch. RFL is just one example of many who
have been able to use Qlik to improve performance and give their
sports teams and athletes a competitive edge.”
About Qlik
Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in visual analytics. Its
portfolio of products meets customers’ growing needs from reporting
and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom
analytics. Approximately 36,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to
gain meaning out of information from varied sources, exploring the
hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite
good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik has offices
around the world with more than 1700 partners covering more than
100 countries.
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