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Team fitness test report: MAS, distance and ranking

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Short answer

Pick the test, paste your group list, one line per athlete: name, level reached and, if you have it, the number of shuttles completed in that level. The report gives each athlete’s MAS (or VIFT on the 30-15 IFT), the level credited, the distance and the rank, then the group mean, median, minimum and maximum. It prints or exports to CSV. Everything is computed in your browser: the list is sent nowhere.

Separate fields with a semicolon, a comma or a tab: copy and paste from a spreadsheet works. Without a shuttle count, the level is counted as completed. An unreadable line is flagged and left out.

The group

How the report is computed

Each line is read as an individual result, and the computation is the one of the site’s level calculator, applied to the chart of the chosen test. MAS is the speed of the last level completed: if an athlete stopped halfway through level 9, level 8 is credited, as an examiner would. If you do not give a shuttle count, the level entered is treated as completed. Distance adds up the shuttles or repetitions actually run. The rank orders the group by MAS, then by distance on a tie; two athletes on a perfect tie share the same rank. Mean, median, minimum and maximum are given for MAS and for distance.

Your data stays on your device

The page contains no form sent to a server. The list is read and computed by the browser, then forgotten when you close the tab. The CSV file is built on the spot and downloaded directly. To keep a season of results, follow each athlete from one test to the next and skip the typing, the Cadlo app does the same in coach mode, with data kept on the phone.

What the report does not say

It does not compare the group with a norm: a mean of 12 km/h means little without the athletes’ age, sex and training level. Nor does it correct for test conditions, floor, temperature or course length. Compare the group with itself above all, from one test to the next, under the same conditions.

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