THE SYSTEM
Rate your players on a scale from 0-10 for their soccer performance. Performance should include technical skills, tactical ability, physical fitness, and mental fitness. You can use our player evaluation tool or develop your own way of coming up with a rating.
Then rate your players on practice attendance on a scale from 0-10. The rating is simply the practice attendance percentage. A practice attendance of 60% for eaxample gets a rating of 6.
Multiply the soccer performance rating by the practice attendance rating to come up with the PERFORMANCE INDEX.
For example, a soccer performance rating of 8 and a practice attendance rating of 8 equals a performance index of 64.
Now set a target for where you would ideally like all players to be, say a performance index above 80. Also set a cut off target below which you would not keep players or below which they should not be in the starting line up, say a performance index of at least 64.
Rank your players and see where the cut-offs are.
THE APPLICATION & MEANING
We suggest that you might want to start with an ideal performance index of 80, which means a soccer rating of 10 with a minumum attendance of 8, or a minimum soccer rating of 8 with attendance of 10 would be your ideal player.
You may want to set the cut-off at 64 based on a rating of 8 and attendance of 8. This also means a player with a rating of 10 and attendance of 6.5 would make the cut, or a player with attendance of 10 and soccer performance of 6.5. Not unreasonable we think.
You can use the results to have a discussion with your team to explain that you value both soccer performance and practice commitment. You can have individual meetings to share the index with each player and thereby point out which areas they need to improve.
If you are coaching a team where performance OR attendance don't matter, then this index wouldn't work for you.
Give it some thought, play around with it, and see if this may be useful for your situation.
Coach Tom
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