Creating a traffic light system report

Avoid Boring tables

This is a boring table!! Nobody enjoys looking at this.

And its very difficult to see any meaning in this.

What were the good performances? What do we need to work on?

It’s impossible to tell – so we need to find a better way.

Traffic light system• One of the easiest ways is to set up a traffic light

system• So your boring report will look more like this

With a bit more work you could add more graphics to this and really bring it to life.

But the traffic light system adds a layer of information you don’t get from numbers themselves

Step 1• Decide your KPI’s• Type them into Excel – 1 per line

 Total number of shots- Number of shots on target- Entries into the penalty area- Entries into the attacking third- Number of passes forward and/or completed- Fouls won/conceded- Goals scored from set plays (differentiate between corners and free kicks)- Individual possession- Individual duels won (aerial and ground)- Offsides

This is a basic example –

you can have as many as

you need/want

Step 2• Fill in the data• I have done this for

4 games but it can be done on a game to game basis or for a full season review.

Step 31. Select all data for 1

KPI2. Click on Conditional

Formatting3. And then Colour

Scales4. Click more Rules

Step 4• This dialogue box will

appear• Use this drop down menu to

decide if you want 2 or 3 colours?

• I prefer 3 (Red, Yellow & Green) but (Gold, Silver & Bronze) might also work well.

Step 5• Now we just fill in the details

1. Under Type – choose either Number or Percent (depending on the type of data you have)

2. Fill in the values you want (these should be agreed with your coaching staff).• Minimum means anything below this will be

Red• Midpoint means yellow• And Maximum means this value or higher will

be green• At each stage the colour will be a gradient as

appropriate. 3. Use the colour drop down to change

colours if you require

Step 6• Repeat this for each line of your KPI’s• You will have something like this• Now its much easier to see how your performance relates

to other games or the standards you have set.

Step 7• You can obviously spend a bit more time making it look

better• But as you add games you can just copy the conditional

formatting across• Really simple – something you only have to set-up once• Your coaching staff and players will thank you.

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