Unlocking Game-Speed Insights: Inside Vector’s New Efforts Breakdown Reporting

Explore Vector’s new Efforts Breakdown Reports, giving elite teams deeper visibility into every sprint, acceleration, and high-speed effort with field mapping, velocity traces, and effort profiling for better training design.

In the high-performance world of elite sport, marginal gains can separate the good from the great. Understanding how athletes move has now evolved beyond just distance or speed metrics.

Today, this means understanding individual effort alongside where and when, as an essential factor to understanding performance.

Now, with the latest update to Vector Pro and Core+, teams now have access to Efforts Breakdown, a transformative reporting feature that gives coaches and performance staff unmatched clarity into every sprint and acceleration across training and competition.

Understanding Athlete Efforts & Why It Matters

Coaching decisions now depend on real-world, position-specific data. Inspired by growing research into curvilinear sprinting and session density, shows breaking down efforts moves beyond aggregate metrics to pinpoint the true nature of each athlete’s work. Whether sprinting down the wing or accelerating out of a press, every high-speed movement is logged, visualised, and contextualised.

These findings emphasize that straight-line speed is only part of the picture. With Efforts Breakdown, coaches and support staff can finally quantify the shape and specificity of movement, not just the raw speed or distance.

Inside: Efforts Breakdown Reports 

Vector Pro and Core+ users can access the new Efforts Breakdown within the Athlete in Activity reports tab. 

Here are its core capabilities: 

• Detailed Profiles of Every Effort
  Each acceleration or velocity event is analyzed by duration, peak intensity, and recovery time to help understand the physiological load and tactical purpose of each effort.
  
• Effort Location Mapping
  Coaches can view exactly where each effort occurred on the field. This brings context to high-speed movements and supports better evaluation of curve-dominant sprint patterns or position-specific actions.
  
• High-Resolution Velocity Trace
  With access to a 10Hz raw velocity trace, practitioners can clearly see how speed builds and fades across each effort. This supports deeper quality control and a better understanding of player output.
  

How It Helps Coaches Work Smarter

Efforts Breakdown gives coaches the tools to move from assumption to precision. By turning raw movement into actionable insight, teams can design smarter drills, manage workload with greater control, and ensure players are executing exactly what the game demands.

• Improve Drill Design
  Use actual effort data to create training drills that mirror match demands. For example, if most high-speed actions in games occur on a curve, replicate that in training sessions.
  
• Manage Session Density
  Gain insight into recovery time and intensity trends across the session. Adjust workloads to prevent overreaching or identify when players need a greater challenge.
  
• Validate Performance
  Confirm whether athletes are executing the movements required by coaching plans. This feature links intent with actual on-field effort to support tactical consistency and accountability.
  

Next Steps

Vector Pro and Core+ can now access Efforts Breakdown reporting within the Vector App. Check out our latest how-to guide to learn more. Efforts Breakdown Reports are also a part of Vector 8 – our latest athlete monitoring solution for elite teams. Learn more about how Vector 8 is transforming how elite teams understand athlete performance like never before. 

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