Ratings of physical performance
What is a Rating of Physical Performance on My Testing Metrics?
Rookie Me provides individual physical performance ratings for every testing metric completed during a testing event. These ratings help athletes understand their strengths and weaknesses across their physical profile and identify where they excel and where development is needed.
How Are These Ratings Calculated?
In simple terms:
Rookie Me uses decades of verified testing data, all collected under consistent testing protocols, to create benchmark standards for each metric. These benchmarks are specific to an athlete’s age, gender, and playing position within their sport.
Based on an athlete’s performance relative to these benchmarks, they receive a rating of:
- Elite (highest performance tier)
- Excellent
- Very Good
- Good
- Average
- Growth Area (needs development, below average)
These ratings are determined by how many standard deviations above or below the mean the athlete’s performance lies for their demographic group.
In more technical terms:
Rookie Me applies smallest worthwhile change and related inferential statistical methods, pioneered by Professor William Hopkins, to classify performance. These methods allow for highly sensitive, sport-relevant thresholds that account for natural variability and meaningful performance differences (explained further here).