How the S2 Cognition test became a secret weapon for the Tigers and Saints

AsylumGuido · 06-04-2023, 09:33 AM

How the S2 Cognition test debuted at LSU and became a secret weapon for the Tigers and Saints

BY JEFF DUNCAN | SPORTS COLUMNIST Jun 2, 2023

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The Eureka moment came in 2014. The site was the LSU football complex.

Brandon Ally had just finished a meeting with LSU coaches, where he presented data from the S2 Cognition test he had given to all 109 players on the Tigers roster two weeks earlier. This was the beta run for the test, which Ally and fellow neuroscientist Scott Wylie created to measure how athletes process information and make split-second decisions during competition.

Ally’s reports identified strengths, weaknesses and tendencies for each player based on the test results.

When LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron read the information, he stood up and exclaimed to the room: "Holy (expletive), this kind of stuff would have saved me at least 12 months of evaluating players. This is gold."

Leaning on decades of experience in the field of neuroscience, Ally and Wylie created a system that grades players in several cognitive categories — perception speed, trajectory estimation, rhythm control, timing control, distraction control, impulse control, stopping control and instinctive learning — and quantifies it with a cumulative score based on the aggregate.

A score of 40-60% is considered average. Anything above 80% is elite.

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AsylumGuido 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Bossier City, LA Posts: 24,500	How the S2 Cognition test became a secret weapon for the Tigers and Saints Twitter How the S2 Cognition test debuted at LSU and became a secret weapon for the Tigers and Saints BY JEFF DUNCAN \| SPORTS COLUMNIST Jun 2, 2023 From the link above: The Eureka moment came in 2014. The site was the LSU football complex. Brandon Ally had just finished a meeting with LSU coaches, where he presented data from the S2 Cognition test he had given to all 109 players on the Tigers roster two weeks earlier. This was the beta run for the test, which Ally and fellow neuroscientist Scott Wylie created to measure how athletes process information and make split-second decisions during competition. Ally’s reports identified strengths, weaknesses and tendencies for each player based on the test results. When LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron read the information, he stood up and exclaimed to the room: "Holy (expletive), this kind of stuff would have saved me at least 12 months of evaluating players. This is gold." Leaning on decades of experience in the field of neuroscience, Ally and Wylie created a system that grades players in several cognitive categories — perception speed, trajectory estimation, rhythm control, timing control, distraction control, impulse control, stopping control and instinctive learning — and quantifies it with a cumulative score based on the aggregate. A score of 40-60% is considered average. Anything above 80% is elite. Read the rest here ... Rugby Saint II likes this.
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