Clean reporting starts with clean athlete data.
Clean dashboards and reports depend on clean athlete records: complete, consistent, and correctly mapped. Duplicate profiles, missing dates of birth, unmapped positions, or irregular season coverage may seem small on their own, but each can create issues downstream:
- Athletes may be counted twice
- Age-based analysis may become unreliable
- Position-group reporting may miss the athletes it is meant to include
- Season-level trends may be harder to trust
The Athlete Data Health Checks Dashboard in My iP gives teams a repeatable way to surface those issues before they affect reporting.
Available as part of the Data Health experience in My iP, the Athlete Data Health Checks Dashboard gives data managers, admins, analysts, and reporting owners a clear view of athlete master data integrity—the foundation behind reliable reporting.
Why Athlete Data Health Matters
Athlete records are the foundation for many of the dashboards and reports teams rely on across iP: Intelligence Platform.
They support questions like:
- Which athletes are active?
- How should athletes be grouped by position?
- Which athletes belong in age-based analysis?
- Are dashboards including the right records?
- Can reports be trusted before they are shared?
When athlete data is incomplete or inconsistent, the issue may not be obvious until later—when a dashboard does not render as expected, a subgroup analysis looks wrong, or a stakeholder asks why a report does not match what they expected.
That creates extra work at the worst time.
Instead of discovering data issues during a season review, board update, governing body submission, or dashboard launch, teams need a way to check athlete record quality earlier.
A Clearer Way to Check Athlete Master Data
The Athlete Data Health Checks Dashboard brings key athlete record checks into one view, helping teams quickly understand where data may need review.
It is designed to help teams move from manual spot-checks to a more consistent data-quality workflow.
The dashboard brings five athlete record checks into one view:
- Season coverage checks
- Duplicate athletes
- Position and position group mapping
- Missing dates of birth
- Questionable dates of birth
The goal is not just to find errors. It is to give teams a clearer starting point for clean-up conversations before those issues affect reporting.
What the Dashboard Helps Teams Review
The dashboard gives teams a default view of common athlete data-quality checks. Designated users can personalize the template over time to reflect the organization’s athlete population, reporting needs, and review thresholds.
DAYS PER SEASON
The dashboard helps teams check whether each season has a plausible number of days associated with it.
This can surface seasons that may be unusually short, or unusually long. That matters because season coverage can affect longitudinal reporting, season-level comparisons, and dashboards that rely on accurate season structure.
DUPLICATE ATHLETES
Duplicate athlete records can distort reporting and create confusion across dashboards.
The dashboard identifies likely duplicate athletes based on matching name and date of birth, giving teams a focused list to investigate and merge where appropriate.
POSITION AND POSITION GROUP
Position and position group data are often used to filter, compare, and segment athlete reporting.
The dashboard helps teams identify athletes whose position or position group is mapped to a generic value such as “Other,” so those records can be reviewed and remapped if needed.
DATE OF BIRTH
Date of birth supports age-based analysis, athlete grouping, and development-related reporting.
The dashboard helps teams identify athletes with missing dates of birth, as well as dates of birth that may need review because they suggest an implausible age. This gives teams a clearer way to catch potential data-entry errors before they affect analysis.
When Teams Should Use Athlete Data Health Checks
This is not a dashboard teams need to live in every day.
It is a dashboard teams should return to at key moments when clean athlete data matters most.
That might include:
- Before a season review or debrief
- Before a board pack or stakeholder report
- Before a governing body submission
- Before enabling or launching new dashboards
- During implementation or customer handover
- As part of a routine data-quality check
- When dashboards or reports appear incomplete, inconsistent, or unexpected
Used regularly, the dashboard helps teams find issues earlier, reduce manual checking, and protect confidence in the reporting that depends on athlete data.
Who Benefits from Athlete Data Health Checks?
Data Managers and Admins
For club-side data managers and admins, the dashboard provides a clearer way to manage athlete record hygiene.
Instead of manually checking athlete profiles one by one, they can review common data-quality issues in one place and prioritize what needs attention.
Analysts and Reporting Owners
For analysts and reporting owners, athlete data quality affects how confidently they can segment and interpret results.
Knowing which records may need review helps reduce rework, especially when building reports by age group, position group, team, or season.
Heads of Medical and Performance
Medical and performance leaders may not own the clean-up process, but they depend on the output.
Clean athlete data helps ensure the dashboards they rely on are built on complete, properly mapped records, reducing the risk that athletes are excluded from analysis because of missing dates of birth, unmapped positions, or duplicate profiles.
Supporting Better Data Review, Not Automatic Decisions
The Athlete Data Health Checks Dashboard helps surface records that may need attention, but it does not decide what should happen next. Whether a record should be merged, corrected, remapped, or left as-is depends on the team that knows the data best.
The dashboard gives teams a shared starting point for review, making clean-up conversations easier to prioritize and act on.
Cleaner Data, Stronger Reporting
The Athlete Data Health Checks Dashboard in My iP gives teams a repeatable way to protect the foundation behind their dashboards, reports, and decisions—before data issues surface downstream.
Cleaner athlete data makes reporting easier to trust. And when reporting is easier to trust, teams can move faster from data to insight to action.
Contact us to explore how Data Health experience in My iP can help your organization strengthen the data behind its reporting.
