Concordia
Merchant Taylors’ School
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Nick Koo
started as the cricket scorer
at MTS before helping film the matches
for the 1st XI hockey side before
moving on to analysing the school’s
rugby 1st XV matches. By the time he
left the school, Nick was delivering
video feedback to the senior hockey
squads weekly in their analysis sessions.
Nick decided to go to Loughborough
University to study Maths where he has
also been able to continue developing
his passion for video analysis and sport.
He writes:
“I am currently working with both the
men’s and women’s 1st hockey teams.
My primary job is to film and live code
all games and training sessions, so
that the coach can easily watch specific
aspects of our play. In continuation
with what I did at MTS, I am also in
communication with the coach during
the game, passing on information such
as opposition tactics and formations, as
my elevated viewpoint gives a dierent
perspective of the game.
After the match, the coach and I play
back the game, and tally the number of
occurrences of dierent individual and
team events such as passes, receptions,
circle penetrations and eliminations. It
is then my job to analyse this raw data to
produce information on various aspects
of personal and team performance, such
as possession retained percentages and
attack and defence ratings.
This is then inputted into a spreadsheet,
which allows us to compare dierent
players, a player’s progression throughout
the season, or dierences in performance
between the first and second halves.
On a more team-based level, we extract
information such as how soon (if at all)
Loughborough score after conceding
and vice versa. Certain statistics are
then shown at teammeetings, and it is a
nervous time for the players when they are
revealed, as they all hope that they have
avoided achieving the dreaded 0%.”
Nick was kind enough to come back
in to school to deliver a video workshop
to a number of budding young analysts
at MTS.
TheAnalyst: NickKoo
returns toMTS
James Booth (2001-2008)
is organising the Sierra Leone Marathon,
and has just run the course. The event is to raise money for Street Child,
which provides educational opportunities for some of the most vulnerable
people in the continent. If you are interested, you can find out more about
what he is doing in this article:
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man_designs_West_African_marathon_route/
And if you would like to support this very worthy cause, this is James’
Justgiving page:
James Booth
