WORKING PRACTICE CORRELATIONS
The strongest correlation with working process behind the question: “Do players receive learning support from the club?”
Which are the most common and correlated working processes, and what does this mean for academies and the way they operate?
correlation (when one working process is present, another process appears. So, working processes, which have a more
CORRELATIONS
STRONGEST
WEAKEST
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Do have defined selection criteria for young scouted players?
Do have partner club(s) outside of your region?
Do have defined selection criteria for those in TID process? Do organise trainings and presentations for parents? Number of pitches on which they play competitive matches on?
significant correlation with all other working processes are more interesting to consider for experts working in youth academies. Within the list of working processes, we have identified more then 600 statistically significant correlations. The most ‘connected’ working processes have correlations with 32 other working processes. If we look at absolute numbers, the question: Do players receive learning support from the club, e.g. access to teachers or help in understanding the study materials they receive from school? is the single most correlated working process measured. Working processes which are correlated with it are presented here arranged by strength of correlation 1 :
W hen you analyse academy activities, it is natural that working processes, logistics and strategic subjects are correlated. Understanding which ones have the most correlation gives us an insight into the relationships between them and their position within the hierarchy. We searched for statistically significant correlation between working processes using Pearson correlation as criteria. This enables us to arrange working processes by their level of influence on the others within an academy. It is important to understand that we do not talk about causality (i.e. where one working process is the reason another working process appears), but
Coaches of teams do make reports on players from opponent teams they are playing against?
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Your club keeps a shadow team list by position for the various age groups and replace departing players with scouted players from such a list? Do have strength and conditioning coach for all age groups? Do have rules in place related to selling players from youth academy before they play in first team? Do have individual locker rooms for all your age-group teams? Do have formal written processes and person(s) delegated to drive better collaboration with parents?
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0.41 0.39
Newest field they use is how old?
Academy does utilise any specialised scouting software to keep a detailed player database?
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Player is assessed for each parent? Shadow team is kept for all age groups?
There is a plan/rules for communication with a player after he leaves club? The locker rooms were last renovated (or built, if new facility)?
Percentage of players from academy in first-team roster? Do have coach educators who visit partner clubs?
There are any individual goals formally set for coaches on a regular basis?
How many full-time scouts do they have? Do have strength and conditioning coach?
MOST CORRELATED WORKING PROCESSES
Assessment of family/parents is made for each player? Do have full time doctor at youth academy? Do have a hall of residence for young players? Do have a room specifically set-up for player education? How many separate training fields do they have? Do have a formal organogram of youth academy? Coach requested information regarding the playing style in the academy when he came to the club? He asked to implement regular communication with representative(s) of youth academy?
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0.34 0.33 0.33
Efficiency of coaches is measured?
The first team plays in the same style as teams in academy?
1 Strength of correlation goes from 0 to 1, where 1 means perfect correlation and 0 no correlation. -1 means negative correlation, so if one process is present, then the other is not.
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