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Focus Category Set Request
Let us design a Focus category set for you...
A category set allows you to customise Focus to your unique situation (sport, team, performance challenges etc). This page gives you information about category sets, an example set and a form that allows you to request your own category set - designed by us.
- Understand the concepts behind a category set as the basis of a Focus project.
- See a category set example.
- Use this form to request your own category set - just detail your sports issues and we will design an optimized category set for you to use.
Category Set Concepts
Having identified the aspects of play on which you want to gather information and access video footage; you are ready to transfer this information to the Focus software. This is done through the creation of a Category Set using an editor built into Focus X2.
- The Category Set should match the purpose of the analysis project.
- If the Category Set contains too many options then it becomes more time consuming and error prone to record each event.
- We recommend starting with simple category sets and keeping the options limited. Focus allows you to store Category Sets in a library and use them as required for new projects.
- When the category is defined in Focus a set of buttons is created. There are buttons for each option in the category and you can change the layout of the buttons and define keyboard short cuts for fast event logging. When you gather statistics, you click on the buttons to create the information for the event.
Category Set Example
In the example on the right, the coach has decided to look at Team Play in Soccer.
In answering the question WHO is the focus of analysis our coach is using two buttons - one for the home team and one for the away team.
In answering the question WHAT is the focus of analysis our coach is using four buttons - he has identified two set-piece events (Free Kicks and Corners) and two open-play events (Crosses and Goal Attempts).
In answering the question HOW WELL are these events being executed, our coach requires seven buttons - he has the outcomes of Retained and Lost for the events of Free Kicks and Corners - he has the outcomes of Zone and No Zone for the event of Crosses - he has the outcomes of Target, Blocked and Off Target for the event of Goal Attempt.
In this example, our coach has colour coded his buttons to see the relationship of options between the Category of Event and the Category of Outcome. Should this coach wish, in future, to extend the level of detail in his category set he may:
- Add more detail to the current events. For example he may decide to code the Area of the pitch the events occur. To answer WHERE the events took place he may have a level called AREA and have options of Left, Centre and Right. This will allow him more detail on the side of play his team favours or is more effective in.
- Add more events to the current category set. For example he may decide to add Winning and Losing Possession buttons to his events category. This in turn may lead him to add Def, Mid or Att buttons to his Area category, and Pressure, No Pressure buttons to his outcome category.
Request Your Own Category Set
This form allows you to request a Focus category set - fill in as much information as you can and we will design the category set, implement it for Focus and email you the category set file for you to use. Once created, a category set is added to Focus when you create a new project, full instructions will be emailed to you with your new category set. Please allow about a week for us to create the set and get it send to you.
Fields shown in bold are required, all other information is optional. Underlined letters are accesskeys.