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8 | The Sunday Business Post | July 2014 The Brains in Our Games ICT In SporT I results are anything to go by, Ray Boyne is up there with the most successul analysts in any sport. Having been part o multiple All-Ireland winning teams across three grades, including helping Dublin lit Sam Maguire under two dierent managers, Boyne hasn’t been able to t in a summer holiday since he started working with teams more than a decade ago. Boyne started out as an an- alyst as a avour to his brother, who was managing Raheny’s senior ootballers. In 2003, he got asked to help out with the Dublin minor team and quickly joined Paul Carey’s backroom on the senior side. Despite starting out in what was still the pen and paper era, Boyne said he was lucky with his timing. “It was very early when I was starting. I’d read a story about Joe Kernan’s team, the Armagh team that was going or the All-Ireland that year, and they’d used a guy by the name o Darren O’Neill who was a basketball coach,” Boyne said. “He had done all o their stats and I contacted him and he shared the templates with me, which were very visual and very graphic and had a number o numerics on them. So it gave me an op- portunity to map out what was happening in the game – and that’s probably why I still like having the ability to do that,” said Boyne. It didn’t take long or Dub- lin GAA to adopt a more I intensive analytics system, one which Boyne said helped him to see games better. Te quality o what an analyst can do during a game however, depends on the acilities in a given venue. “You can go with the ull system, depending on where you’re playing. Realistically, rom a GAA point o view, you would need to be in Croke Park beore you could set yoursel up with the ull Sportscode acility because you’d need the ull eed o the game coming through the computer and it means you can code live. “By coding live, you’re basically editing the video live and you’re setting aside the events [to populate] an Excel spreadsheet or a CSV le, which is giving you your numbers, so you’re getting your stats as well,” said Boyne. “I you’re taken out o Croke Park, you’re probably going to nd that more dif- cult, so you’re looking or one o the handheld extensions to either Sportscode or Dartsh. “You basically tag the game in the same way, but you just don’t have any video. But what you can do is import that le, then – when you do get a video o the game – [the data] overlays across the vid- eo o the game and basically has done all the editing or you,” he said. GAA analysts working in Croke Park have the Irish rugby team’s temporary residency there during the reconstruction o Lansdowne Road, to thank or the supe- rior acilities. “Tey’ve two analysis box- es, one or each team up on the Ard Chomhairle level. Tey were designed as part o the IRFU going in there or the ew years, so they’re quite good. Tey have the acili- ties that you would see more commonly when you’re watching rugby games where you’d see the coaches behind the desk with the laptops in ront o them. It’s pretty much like that setup. You’d have a communications link – so to any developing trend or anything they’re looking or specically, you have that two-way communication,” said Boyne. In the summer o 2011, Boyne was in his box in Croke Park as Dublin sought to end a 16-year All-Ireland drought. For all the advance- ments made strategically by the Dubs during Pat Gilroy’s time as manager, Boyne aced one o his most stressul days that summer as Jim McGuin- ness’ Donegal stood in the way during that semi-nal. “Tere was a lot o prepa - ration done going into that game. It was about moving the ball quick and one o the measures we had was a three to six second rule where we moved the ball within that time – it was to stop our players, what we would have termed, carrying the ball into trafc,” said Boyne. “I remember speaking to Pat [Gilroy]. He couldn’t wait to get them in at hal time be- cause it was like that prepa- ration hadn’t been done. Guys were taking an extra hop or an extra solo out o the ball and the swarm deence was just engulng them and tak - ing them over. “One o the great things about Pat was that he was so calm. It probably sticks out because it was so rustrating that day, the conversation at hal-time was about closing down the emotional side o your brain and getting the rational side o your brain to understand: “Slow play – we’re going to be killed,” he said. “It was about quickening it up and getting the messages into them about how quick we were and deploying our ast movement o the ball. Hopeully it had some impact on us or the second hal.” Gilroy stood down as Dub- lin manager ater the 2012 season and Boyne stayed on when Jim Gavin, with whom he had worked in the Under 21 set-up, took the reins. Ater a year and another All-Ireland, Boyne decided it was time to take a break. Finally, the holiday his amily has been waiting or is in the works. Tere’s just one slight problem, well two actually. Boyne stayed on with the Dublin minors and is now working with the Dublin La- dies senior team. Despite his love or what he does, Boyne acknowledged that it can be tough to be an analyst while also working ull-time out - side o sport. “I was with the Ladies’ se- nior team two Sundays back when they played Kildare. Ater a game like that, it’s The Code for SuCCeSS I t sc at scial lk at w tclgy is cagig st, emmt rya saks wit m dbli GAA aalyst ray By abt vlti i aalytics I Sports analytics online help coaches and competitors plan their games more precisely Ray Boyne, sports analyst who worked with Dublin GAA C-JULY-P8-15.indd 2 01/07/2014 16:41
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