Tracking Athletes Performance

Tracking Athletes Performance

Project Justification

We are in an era where technology is being embraced by different institutions; its implementation in sports always yield result. Tracking athletes has become a hurdle for many coaches and event organizers for some time now. Monitoring athletes is one of the best ways to maximize performance. The only thing that remains constant is that the monitoring period of an athlete can be narrowed using individual approaches. Some of the project benefits will come from monitoring athletes. First, it leads to concise and effective communication between the staff and athletes. Second, monitoring reduces illness and injuries by observing changes and trends. Third, monitoring improves training outcomes by controlling power and fatigue with greater precision. Fourth, monitoring helps coaches to understand the kind of training every athlete needs and the recovery processes of athletes (Hallén & Ekstrand, 2014). Fifth, it helps the coach in the recruiting process, which enables him to pick the best players. Finally, it helps in providing objective feedback for players. And it also makes it easy for a coach to evaluate strain that an athlete incurred during a practice.

This project will, therefore, attempt to elaborate on the development of systems to track an athlete’s position as he/she runs on a race track or moves around a football pitch. The track performance software will be part of specially designed shoes or clothes. It will provide tactical data on how the athlete utilizes the field, as well as their velocity, which will update coaches on the training requirements. It will also help in giving insight into how players or athletes respond to the stress they suffer after and during the preparation of a competitive game.

Project Structure

In this project, a projected organizational structure will be used. The project manager will be mandated to a bright and established line of authority that will lead to rapid decision making and approval. The project will need the advantage of this management structure is that it makes communication faster between the project manager, the project customer, and other stakeholders. The project manager for this project will have the mandate to draft the budget for the project, schedule events, and oversee the project team.

Customers of the Project

The main customers of this project are football owners. It has come to the attention of many football owners and managers, that footballers who rest for three to four days, are susceptible to more injury woes that those who sleep for six days. Moreover, the occurrence of these injuries is mostly spread out. The level and intensity of exertion needed in training can be compared to the actual match competitive levels (Amaral & Araújo, 2009). In general, the strength in football itself can be associated with the physical consequence players’ encounter hence the need for a monitoring system that can monitor all attributes of a player before they are allowed to play.

Project goals

Different teams have different financial stabilities. This means that the kind of monitoring technique that they will use can be high-tech or low-tech or a group of analog technologies and methods combined. However, science requires coaches to use whatever means that they feel works with them appropriately.

For this project, the tracking system that will be used will provide computational necessities which will be usefully in semi-automatically tracking athlete teams as they run around a field. Coaches will have the option to utilize this information to measure an athlete’s physical performance and capacity to participate in a universal competition. Furthermore, the tracking system will likewise measure an athlete’s heart rate and overall body fitness. The body functionality and heart rate features will be generally useful to football trainers who are enriched with the assignment of choosing a squad that will win a specific match. Thirdly, the tracking system will be fundamental in reacting to injuries on the occasion an athlete is injured. With the essential press of a button, the tracking system will automatically convey a message to the coach or medical team detailing the pain the athlete is enduring at that specific time. Fourthly, the tracking system will help the staff to know the stress levels of players as they prepare for competition; this may help the coach to make some crucial decisions. The system will enable the coach to be able to come up with individuals’ special training programs to maximize their potential.

Time factor

Before the start of the project, all the unique clothes needed for the embedding of the tracking device should be readily available. The management should have partnered with teams that will be using our technology. All the servers that the technology will be relying on should have gone through testing and maintenance. All the workers that will be involved through the launching process should have received their training.

Project risks

As much as the benefit of the project will be significant, there are also risks that are associated with the project. The data management structure will not provide the intended results if, by the time of implementation, it will not be able to do the analysis. The unique clothes that the system will be embedded to should be produced internally to lower the cost of production; if not, the company may run into loses.

Project expenses

Implementation costs, the amount needed for the completion of the project is $60,000; the fund will result in the server installation and payment of labor. The funds will help in the licensing process. The funds have been approved by the stakeholders. Post-implementation expenses, that funds that will be needed for the support and maintenance of the project the quotation is $ 10,000 annually. It will mostly help in repairs in case of any damages incurred. The project will need a staff capacity of 30 individuals for a start, and depending on the growth of the project; the number will increase. The project will also incorporate and rely on casual labor on specific duties that will be available.

Project stakeholders

As the project’s primary customer, the project sponsor will be the main beneficiary and financier of the plan if the venture becomes successful. The project manager will be endowed with the role of planning and executing methodologies that will fit in with the desires of the project shareholders. The project manager will manage the time properly. Many project shareholders judge the success of a project or failure on the basis that it has been delivered on time. Hence meeting deadlines are not negotiable. The confidentiality of projects in athletics is paramount (Amaral & Araújo, 2009). The project manager will guarantee that this project remains a private venture since disclosing the project’s technological innovation may pull in different players to evaluate a similar idea. It is the project manager who knows what it will cost to launch this project. For this project to be termed as a success, the project managers will ensure that it is met using the planned budget. The project manager will also collaborate with a team of skilled workers as well as project advisor.

Project Deliverables

Develop a tracking structure using ProQuest tools. The system will track players, field borderlines as the camera moves rhythmically registering an athlete’s heart rate.

The development phase will center on creating one or more models of tracking. A single model will track a team’s members all at once since the ProQueSys can apply identical models too numerous to numerous things in the tracked surroundings (Hallén & Ekstrand, 2014).

Practical assessment will come from the resulting performance level of the tracked players. Measures will encompass athletes missed, system losing track of an athlete, multiple tracking of an athlete by the system.