Post by Catapult

Two practices. Same Player Load on paper. Completely different demands on the ice. The difference comes down to one thing: which clock you're using. Player Load/minute (PL/min) only tells part of the story. When you measure through active-shift windows, isolating only the moments a player is truly active, the numbers shift. Sometimes dramatically. And what you assumed about practice density might not hold up. Auto Shift Detection gives your whole staff a cleaner, more consistent lens. No manual tagging. No guesswork. Just a shared reference point for what players did and how demanding it actually was. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/444r7R8 Written by Patrick Love, Catapult. With thanks to Steve Nightingale MSc CSCS CPSS for his research and framework on external load metrics in ice hockey which supported this article. #IceHockey #PerformanceData #SportsTech #AutoshiftDetection