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MatchPlay turns your PC into a powerful team-sports analysis platform.
The use of video to aid in the coaching process
MatchPlay satisfies the needs of sporting coaches and analysts who have a need to quickly and efficiently study the successful and unsuccessful
plays of their own and opposition teams' players. Most major sporting events are recorded by multiple TV cameras placed and controlled to provide
close detail of all-important match events. Non broadcast sporting events may also be videotaped to provide for subsequent analysis. In order to
compile this match footage into a form whereby coaches may use it as a training aid, and sports analysts to compile statistics to aid in training,
event logging and video editing processes must be employed.
Why use MatchPlay?
In most team sports, any one match may produce many thousands of individual "events" that could have a profound effect on the match. It is probable
that just a few of these events could make the difference between winning and losing. The task then is to use the video recordings of past matches
to efficiently compile all of these individual events into a form whereby any single event may be accessed quickly and grouped with other similar
events, so as to provide for useful analysis of each player's contribution. MatchPlay performs these tasks with incredible ease. Even inexperienced
computer users are up and running in minutes.
MatchPlay differs from other analysis applications in that it allows the user to "batch" events from an unlimited number of matches from a season
or even from several seasons and play the selected events back immediately.
How does MatchPlay work?
MatchPlay uses a system of splitting-off events into separate video scenes. There is no limit to the maximum or minimum duration of each of these
event-scenes. The duration for each "type" of event is pre-set by the user and may be easily re-set, if required. The user watches the video of
the match and clicks predefined on-screen buttons to log each required event. A single mouse click identifies the player and another click identifies
the type of event. As each event is logged, the timecode, player number and event type is automatically stored in the MatchPlay database. MatchPlay
then allows the user to quickly find and playback the video of a single event, all similarly categorized "events" from one player, all "events" from
one player, all similar events from a selection of players or all events from all players, in a previously sorted order. When a number of matches are
logged in this way, the user may then batch and playback the required event-scenes from all of the previously logged matches. For instance, it takes
just seconds to prepare and begin viewing all the goal attempts performed by a single player or a selection of players from a single match or from several
selected matches. As well as providing video playback in its own viewer, MatchPlay also includes an mpeg video recompiler, so events taken from mpeg match
footage can be quickly recompiled for writing to DVD (mpeg-2) or video CD (mpeg-1).
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