HELIOS App vs PowerPlayer

This app requires a HELIOS® Core performance sensor. When paired with a HELIOS® Core, the HELIOS® App provides performance data, analysis, instant video highlights and actionable insights that help hockey players and teams Get Better, Faster. Track Performance: Mount the HELIOS® Core performance sensor onto your existing shoulder pads and immediately track your key skating metrics including Skating Speed, Agility, Explosiveness, and Balance. The HELIOS® Core seamlessly blends in with your gear using our innovative Twist Mount clip or Strap Mount. Benchmarks and Insights: Track your evolution with constantly updated Rankings by Birth Year and Progress Over Time. The HELIOS® App highlights your strengths and weaknesses to help you Get Better, Faster. Performance data from every practice and game is aggregated in the cloud to provide a powerful data experience to hockey players, coaches, trainers across the Helios platform. Gamified Development: Earn points for every practice and game you play. Get rewarded when you do the work and earn extra points when you perform above your personal baseline. Compete with other players near and far on the HELIOS® platform. Teams/Orgs: When hockey teams or orgs integrate HELIOS® into player and team development, coaches can see the skating performance results for their entire team in real-time or post-session. Players gain access to additional team and org-based leaderboards to raise the bar on competition and performance.

PowerPlayer is a sports communication platform designed for coaches who want to provide developmental feedback to athletes and manage their team’s seasons from a single app. PowerPlayer enables coaches to keep team communication front and center, offering a way to message players individually, by position, by special teams assignments, etc., to connect with the entire team / parents, or to communicate coach to coach. PowerPlayer can deliver text, video clips, images, or links, and offers helpful features including calendaring and polling to make management of all aspects of team communication more efficient. In short, PowerPlayer streamlines team and athlete / parent management by eliminating the need to use multiple apps, email, or cumbersome individual / group text messaging. Here's how real feedback and communication works: For coaches - PowerPlayer is currently customized for five sports—baseball, softball, ice hockey, lacrosse, and soccer. Additional sports will be coming soon. - Create unique team accounts (team accounts can be personalized with a logo and header banner image). - Message any player individually, or message a group of players by position—pitchers, catchers, infielders, or outfielders on a baseball team, for example. - Upload messages containing text, images, video, links, etc., - Monitor message / video views, likes, and questions and reply via PowerPlayer or in person. - Use PowerPlayer’s polling feature to better understand everything from individual and team mental health, to a player’s physical status, to where to eat dinner on the road. - Create team schedules in the PowerPlayer calendar. - Receive RSVP notifications from players who can and cannot attend events. - Add event locations to provide directions and mapping. - Use push notifications to provide event updates. - Manage multiple teams in multiple sports from the same PowerPlayer account. For athletes / players - Create a personal profile, upload a photo, and add important information like height, weight, position, righty, lefty, sports and academic accomplishments, etc. - See each season’s team / personal feedback in one place. - Provide likes or indicate you have a question to let your coach know how any message was received. - Select messages, videos, and images to store in a personal favorites section. - Share your personal videos or messages via text, social media, etc. For parents - Manage one or multiple child athlete accounts via the same app. - See every PowerPlayer interaction between your child and their coaches in real time. - Provide likes or indicate you have a question to let your child’s coach know how any message was received. - Subscribe to the PowerPlayer calendar to see all of your child’s team events on your phone calendar, and include them in your daily schedule.