People love statistics. And why wouldn’t not?
The issue is, as coaches, stats are intended to serve a purpose. A purpose, I should note, that’s different for coaches than for parents and other spectators. We want them to tell us one of two things. In the moment, we want them to give us information we can use to make decisions. That could be about personnel. Maybe it relates to tactics. Depends on your situation. The other thing we want stats to tell us is something we can use to assess our training so far and/or to give us our training focus moving forward (remember the two big jobs of a coach).
When we’re talking about young players, I am 100% in the camp of focusing on the latter. Use stats to assess the progress you’re making on your training priorities, and to determing priorities moving forward. Most likely, this means taking decidedly non-traditional stats.
Why?
Think about the sorts of things…
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