minimax is used by leading football clubs around the world like Liverpool, Everton, Blackburn Rovers and Westham in the UK, national teams like the Australian Socceroos, and more.

“ I love minimax; its fundamental to my plans to rebuild Liverpool into the leading team in the EPL”, Darren Burgess, Head of Fitness, Liverpool FC

Fitness Analysis

minimax allows you to move beyond one dimensional heart rate analysis to measure the workrate of your athletes. Instead, you can choose from an array of metrics that give you the complete picture of how hard your guys are working and what its costing them to produce this effort.

Teams might use distance covered, number of sprints or PlayerLoad™ to monitor training volume, in conjunction with training intensity metrics like metres/minute, Repeat High Intensity Effort bouts, or number of accelerations. Coupled with physiological parameters like heart rate, you get to understand the balance between an athletes external load and internal cost.

Use minimax to find out exactly what the match demands are for each position in your team. For instance, a winger might be required to do 50-60 sprints averaging 25 metres or more, accelerating regularly at 3-4m/s/s in order to win the ball. Armed with this information, you can check to see how well your training is preparing him for these demands and make changes to suit.

minimax PlayerLoad™ index measures total effort – whether in free running play or tight congested movements. Use this to separate running and non running portions of workload. Understand why your central midfielders might have to work harder because of the short sharp accelerations needed in their position. PlayerLoad™ is the only validated accelerometer based work metric in the market.

Rehabilitation

Imagine the value gained by having your best players on the pitch more often! During injury rehabilitation, use minimaxX to closely monitor velocity, heart rate, distance, acceleration and impact loading. Set alarms personalised for each player and the software will alert you if a player is exceeding allowable thresholds. Elite players often reinjure themselves from over exertion during rehab. Keep them on track with minimax real time monitoring.

Strategic Analysis

Using Prozone or other video tracking for your games? Supplement this with minimax real time animations of play during training, practise matches and preseason. Look at hotspot plots showing use of the pitch, tactical animations showing team structure, movement and space and export these as movie files for integration into Sportscode or other video analysis tools.

Animation in real time, with instant replay, means you can teach new tactics to your team more quickly, helping them see with the coaches perspective.

Catapult recommends minimaxS4 or X3 for professional teams, and minimaxL3 for amatuers or schools.