Rugbycentric Coach+ A web application for rugby coaches

http://rugbycentric.com

User Guide

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What is Player+ Player+ is our web application dedicated to rugby

players. Player+ turns rugby training interactive with

points, badges, levels and evolving avatars. Players can

create and share workouts, plan training schedules,

track their progress, monitor their wellbeing whilst also

following and challenging their friends and teammates.

What is Coach+ Coach+ is our web application dedicated to rugby coaches that

integrates with Player+. Both web apps are accessible at

http://rugbycentric.com and are available on Desktop, tablet and

mobile browsers.

On Coach+, rugby coaches can:

● Import Player+ members into their squad

● Monitor the players training regime and well-being

● Plan and schedule S+C workouts, training sessions and

fixtures.

● Send pre-match tactics and post-match feedback

● Upload match videos and perform simple video analysis

● Share match stats and analysed video clips with their squad

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Navigation The primary navigation bar is at the top of

every Coach+ screen and allows you to

navigate between the different sections.

The top right gear icon gives you access to

your account settings where you can select

your club, change to profile picture, etc.

Onces you are on a specific section you can navigate to the sub sections using the vertical

menu on the left hand side.

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Dashboard Overview The Dashboard is the default page you will see every time you log into Coach+. It gives you a

quick overview of your account metrics as well as the upcoming scheduled fixtures and the

trend in your squad’s well-being.

What Can I Do Here? From the dashboard you can:

● Check a few important metrics

● Quickly access the pages related to these metrics

● See your upcoming fixtures and events

● Monitor the overall trend in your squad well-being

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Squad Section Overview The Squad section displays all the information related to the players in your squad.

What Can I Do Here? From the squad page you can:

● Access the list of players in your squad along with their details

● Invite people to join your squad

● View your players’ latest activity on Player+

● View your players’ current fitness levels

● Group your players into squad sub-groups for custom event and fitness programing

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Invite players to join your squad In order to fully benefit from Coach+ and interact with your squad, you need to invite your

players to create an account on Rugbycentric Player+ and then join your squad via a

password protected squad page.

1. In the squad section click on “Invite Players”

2. Create a squad page with a name, description and password

3. Once your group is created click on “Link to share” and send the URL to your players

along with the password. Tell them to create an account on Rugbycentric Player+ and

then join the squad thanks to the URL and password.

4. In “My Squad”, press the “Update/Refresh” button to import any new players into your

squad as they join your squad page.

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Squad Feed The Squad feed list all the recent activities of your squad members on Rugbycentric Player+.

Nothing will appear in this section if you do not have Player+ members in your squad. You will

be able to keep track of any training they are doing in their own time.

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Squad Fitness The Squad fitness section gives you an overview of your players’ current fitness levels (speed,

endurance, strength). Nothing will appear in this section if you do not have Player+ members

in your squad. Once your players complete tests from the Player+ test battery you will see

them begin to build a rating in each category.

Coming Soon (March 2016) Our upcoming features for this section include:

● Views of the players’ exact fitness tests results

● Fitness tests results comparisons and rankings

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Squad Well-Being Player+ prompts members to fill-in a daily

well-being questionnaire. The cleanest output

of this daily questionnaire is a traffic light

warning system that indicates what

intervention, if any, should be made. Whether

the player is fully fit (green), is showing signs

of fatigue, soreness or other well-being issues

and would be worth checking in with (orange)

or the player is showing serious signs

suggesting the need for an intervention,

whether the night off training or a more in depth discussion about their lifestyle and

well-being.

On this page you can monitor each of your squad members’ well-being and manage your

squad training load accordingly. In addition you are able to drill down into the details behind

each player’s traffic light score, should you want to know more.

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Squad Groups In Squad groups you can divide your squad into several groups. One player can be placed into

several groups. This grouping system is especially relevant later on when programming

workouts or events - i.e. a workout can be scheduled to all squad members or to the

members of a single group only.

1. Click on create a group

and give your new group a

name

2. Select the squad members

you want to add to the group and

click ‘add’

3. The members are

listed whenever you

click on the group

name. They can be

removed from the

group at any moment

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Fixtures Section Overview The fixture section controls all the information related to the teams and fixtures.

What Can I Do Here? From the fixture section you can:

● Create and edit teams including you team and the team in your league

● Create and edit fixtures

● Create and edit team line-up sheets

Teams The first step you have to go through in the fixture section is to create a list of teams.

Typically, this list include the team you are coaching as well as all the teams you will play

against during the season.

A team is defined by its country,

name, club, code, league, age group

and sex.

We maintain our own database of

clubs (with club address, logo, etc.)

and it is not yet complete. Ping us

an email upon sign-up so that we

can enter your club and the clubs in

your league in our database.

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Once a team is created it goes into your team list. Teams can be removed or edited at any

time.

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Fixtures Once you have at least two teams in your team list you can start creating fixtures.

A fixture is defined by the

two different teams, a date

and optionally a team sheet

and a Google map. One of the

two teams involved is

marked as being the one

‘analysed’.

Once your fixtures are created, they appear in your fixture list and can be edited at any time.

When clicking on the loop icon you can also edit the score and add/edit a text note that will be

visible by your players if you schedule the fixture in their calendar.

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This is an example of

how a fixture will

appear in your

players’ calendar on

Player+.

Coming Soon

Our upcoming features for this section include:

● Share the team selection, tactics and gameplan with the squad

● Get confirmation of players availability for the fixture (and sessions)

Team Sheets Team sheets are easily created

by drag and dropping your

players pictures into their

position on the rugby pitch. The

system support all three rugby

codes (Union, League, Sevens).

Once created the team sheets

can be attached to a fixture and

then later sent to the squad or

used in the video analysis report.

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Strength & Conditioning Section Overview The S&C section helps you create workouts that you will then be able to schedule for your

squad. The workouts will appear in your players calendar on Player+.

Workout Builder Our workout builder - also called

“shopper” - lets you filter exercises

(by training type, body parts and

equipment) to then add them into

your ‘cart’. Custom exercises can

also be created and added.

Once you have selected the

exercises you want, the second

step involves defining sets,

reps, rest times and supersets.

Additional text notes can added

at workout or exercise level.

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Scheduling Section

Overview The scheduling section lets you

schedule workouts, fitness tests and

fixtures for your players. Once sent,

they will appear in your players

calendar on Player+.

Scheduling Workouts and Fitness Tests

1. Select one of your squad group or select “all groups”

2. Select the name of your workout or fitness test

3. Pick a date with our datepicker interactive calendar.

4. Click on “Schedule”.

The event will appear in your calendar in a colour

that indicates that it is scheduled but not yet been sent to

the players. If the event has been scheduled for several

groups (i.e. when scheduled for ‘all groups’) it will appear

several times in the calendar.

5. Click on “Send to new players”

On sent the event will turn into a different colour, usually green.

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Scheduling Fixtures The date of a fixture is already defined in the fixture section of the application. The only

option there is therefore, is to send the fixture to the players. Once the fixture is sent, every

update on the fixture section will be reflected on the players’ calendars. You can thus create a

fixture with the correct date, send it to your players and later edit the Google map or the text

note.

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Video Analysis Section Overview This section enables you to upload your match videos and perform a simple yet

comprehensive video analysis. The objective of this analysis is to generate collective and

individual statistics and be able to review the match video while focusing on certain areas.

Coming Soon

We are currently rewriting the code for our video analysis tool. We are reviewing the system in

depth and we hope to release a new, more powerful version by late February/early March.

Video Upload First you will need to upload your match video. The

upload speed will depend on your internet bandwidth

so try to perform this wherever you have a good

internet connection. Upload times can vary from a

few minutes to several hours depending on the

quality of your internet connection. If someone in

your team as access to fiber optics internet,

delegate the upload to him or her!

Automatic Video Encoding Once uploaded the videos are automatically encoded for the web so that they can be

streamed and watched over the internet.

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Video Analysis Creation In order to create a new video

analysis you need to have created

at least one fixture. Each video

analysis is attached to a fixture as

well as to one or two videos.

Video Analysis List Once created the video analysis appear in a list. For each video analysis four buttons let you:

● Watch the video analysis

● Perform the video analysis tagging

● Display the video analysis report

● Suppress the video analysis

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Tagging Collective and Individual Actions As of today, our tagging system is fairly simple: as you watch the video of your game (using

our HTML5 online video player) you can tag collective and individual actions of your team as

they happen on the video. For an individual action to be accounted for, you need to first select

the number of the player concerned.

Coming Soon

In the next release of our video analysis tool, we will introduce the concept of sequences of

play. Ball possession and territory occupation will also be taken into account . Finally, the

tagging options will be displayed intelligently depending on game context.

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Match Review Once the tagging is done, you can review the game and choose a specific collective or

individual action.

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Match Report Once the analysis is done, a report

of the game stats can be

generated and shared with the

players.

Sharing the Video Analysis The video analysis can easily be shared online with the privacy option of restricting its access

to members of the squad. Here are a few examples of video analysis on our soon to be

updated platform:

Oxford University Blues vs Cambridge University Blues:

http://coach.rugbycentric.com/analysis/?key=g

South Africa vs Japan (RWC 2015)

http://coach.rugbycentric.com/analysis/?key=v

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