If your league is starting soon, you may be involved in running tryouts for your team.
You will need to have some objective way of selecting your players. We believe that a measurement system is very safe and fair. Today, we offer you one such evaluation tool. You will see that it is actually filled out from a real tryout we conducted with our team. There are many ways to score and rate players, this is just one of them. We will provide another method in a future article.
The link below gets you to a spreadsheet with all the mathematical formulae intact, so be careful when you make changes.
This model places equal value on attendance, effort and skills, breaking down skills into 7 categories. The last four areas are weighted at 50% of the first three: skill application (in games), movement (off the ball, requiring vision), attitude (leadership, passion, interest, focus) and communication (verbal, non verbal.
There is a % rating excluding attendance for those coaches who place less emphasis on it and a total. You can change the weightings or the categories to whatever you like, this is just one suggested format.
The key then is to run tryout practices in which you can observe these categories and skills and get at least three opportunities to rate each player. You can use the drills from our practice books, they are well suited for this purpose.
Experience has shown that the top 10 players coming out of this rating scheme will provide at least 7 of your future starting line-up.
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