Platform update: faster access and a new way to view tactical outputs
- Aug 19
- 3 min read
At Kognia, we continue to evolve the platform so that our users can reach the information they need more quickly, and interpret it with greater rigour. In this update, we're introducing two new features: direct access to favourite teams and players, and an adjustment to how users can view player and team data for a more contextualised comparison of performance, regardless of a team's style of play.
1. Team & Player Tracker: your favourites, one click away
Until now, reaching the player or team you follow each game involved several steps: searching, filtering, navigating to the right competition, and so on. With the Tracker, that friction disappears.
What can you do now?
Mark the players and teams you're most interested in as favourites.
Access their most recent matches directly.
Jump straight to their highlights, with no detour in between.
Coming next: From that same favourites view, you'll soon be able to download reports and XML files directly, without leaving the flow. In other words, the Tracker doesn't just get you to the content faster — it also becomes the starting point for exporting your working data.
Use case: An analyst tracking five centre-back candidates for a transfer adds them to their favourites once, then returns each week to view their latest matches and relevant clips directly, without repeating the search from scratch.
Use case: A sporting director or academy director who is monitoring different teams within their club can use the ‘Favourite Teams’ window to access information more quickly.
2. Possession-adjusted metrics (padj30): a new way to compare across styles of play.
The volume of actions by a player or a team is shaped by tactical context: a team with more possession naturally generates more opportunities to accumulate offensive metrics, while a team that spends more time defending accumulates more defensive actions. This difference doesn't necessarily reflect better or worse performance. It reflects greater or lesser exposure to each phase of play.
To correct for this effect, we've introduced padj30 values (possession-adjusted per 30):
Offensive metrics are normalised by the time the team/player spends in possession.
Defensive metrics are normalised by the time the team/player spends defending (without the ball).
Unlike the traditional "per 90 minutes played" calculation, the denominator here is the actual time the player or team spends in the relevant phase of play. The result is more rigorous comparisons between profiles competing in very different tactical contexts. For example, a team with a high volume of possession versus one that builds its game around defending and transitions.
Use case: An analyst comparing two centre-midfield candidates for a tactical or recruitment decision brings up the padj30 view once, and can immediately see which player performs better across each facet of the game (pressing, duels, support play, passing lines…) adjusted to the actual time each spends without the ball. This keeps the conversation with the coaching staff focused on individual performance, rather than on differences that simply reflect each team's style of play.
It's worth noting that padj30 values are not equivalent to "per 90 minutes" values: they measure different magnitudes and shouldn't be compared directly with one another, nor across metrics from different phases of play (an offensive padj30 metric is not comparable to a defensive padj30 metric).
These metrics are now available at both player and team level, for individual matches and across a season.
To arrange a platform demonstration with Kognia, please get in touch.
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