What does a performance analyst actually do? (w. Carlon Carpenter, Head Video Analyst at Houston Dynamo)
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Carlon Carpenter to discuss what a performance analyst does.
How did he get his foot in the door at University of Virginia?
What are the biggest differences between the analysis processes at the different levels?
Are preconceived biases a thing in video/performance analysis?
How much of the analysis is of what the coaching staff want to see vs. highlighting things they should be seeing?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome to the TIF Football Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I am John McKenzie, and I'm joined by a very festive Mike Zimmerman, Mike How-E-D? |
| 0:15.0 | Happy holidays, John, and I'm excited to hear another American voice today. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes, because we have a very exciting guest in the studio this week with us of Carl and Carpenter, |
| 0:25.2 | who is one of the performance analysts at Houston Dynamo in MLS. |
| 0:29.1 | He came to talk to us all about performance analysis, what a performance analyst does. |
| 0:34.5 | Mike, you've just listened to that conversation. |
| 0:35.9 | What did you make of it? |
| 0:36.7 | Well, actually, John, I would like to take this time and flip this back on to you. What were your thoughts on |
| 0:41.7 | Carlin explaining the performance analyst path he took in the US? Because I know things in America |
| 0:46.9 | are quite different from the UK and Europe. Yeah, I always love talking to people who are working |
| 0:51.5 | behind the scenes at clubs because so much of what happens |
| 0:54.2 | none of us actually get to see so really fascinating to have access to someone who is at the top |
| 0:59.6 | of their game like carlon is talking about what it is that they do and giving people a much |
| 1:03.1 | better sense of what being a professional performance analyst looks like and I think yeah |
| 1:07.5 | especially his experiences of MLS where he can be flying three, four hours to a place to play a game. |
| 1:15.2 | Just gives a real sense of just how much work and effort is required by players who work at clubs in order to be able to get through their trance of games. |
| 1:23.7 | So yeah, really, really enjoyable conversation with Carl. |
| 1:26.6 | And as always, I think the best |
| 1:27.8 | thing for us to do is to just jump straight in to that conversation with Carl, who is one of the |
| 1:32.0 | performance analysts at Houston Dynamo. |
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