Managing mechanical stress in sports participants

A system for managing athlete availability comprising:

• player worn data loggers including sensors, each player worn data logger being affixed to a respective player;
• and
• a computing device adapted to receive data from the sensors of each player worn data logger, said computing device being programmed to:
• analyse the data received from the player worn data loggers by identifying a plurality of data points in the received data,
• to identify and count for each athlete movements from the data received from each respective player worn data logger by calculating features using data points in sub-sections of the data, and using the calculated features to identify and count the athlete movements, and
• to measure a work load associated with such movements for each player from the data received from each respective player worn data logger,
• said computing device also being programmed to display the data as athlete movement metrics.

A method for managing athlete availability, the method comprising:

• affixing player worn data loggers to a plurality of players, each player worn data logger comprising sensors and being affixed to a respective player;
• receiving, with a computing device, data from the sensors of each player worn logger;
• analyzing, with the computing device, the data received for each layer from each respective player worn data logger to identify and count athlete movements and to measure a player work load associated with said player movements, wherein:
• the data received is analyzed by identifying a plurality of data points in the received data,
• data points in sub-sections of the data are used to calculate features of the received data, and
• the calculated features are used to identify and count the athlete movements;
• and
• displaying, using the computing device, the data as athlete movement metrics.