Field Notes

Product updates, coaching tips, and insights from the SquadProfile team.

Goalies tab on a season leaderboard ranking goalies by saves and shots on goal
guides

Lacrosse Goalie Save Percentage: Why One Number Isn't Enough

Lacrosse goalie save percentage alone skips shots faced, shot quality, and clearing rate. Read all four before judging a goalie's full season.

Lacrosse stat recording screen confirming a stat was just recorded during a game
guides

Your First Week of Digital Stat Tracking: What to Expect

What your first week of digital stat tracking actually looks like: roster setup, your first recorded game, and the box score that comes back.

Lacrosse stat screen with player numbers, stat buttons, and the assist picker for a goal
guides

What a Lacrosse Stat Keeper Needs to Know Before Game Day

A lacrosse stat keeper guide to the stats that cause arguments: ground balls, caused turnovers, shots on goal, assists, and saves, plus common mistakes.

Game analytics cards showing faceoff win percentage beside clears, rides, turnovers and ground balls
guides

Lacrosse Faceoff Win Percentage: Does It Decide Games?

Lacrosse faceoff win percentage tells you who starts with the ball, not who wins. How to read FO% with ground balls and sample size before you judge your FOGO.

Team Staff tab listing a head coach, assistant coach, and two stat keepers with pending invites
guides

How to Set Up a Lacrosse Stat Crew for Game Day

A lacrosse stat crew can be one stat keeper or a few people. Here's who to assign, how to invite them, and what to settle before the first whistle.

SquadProfile app showing a team's season shooting stats and a player's season goals and assists totals
guides

Turning Season Stats Into a Lacrosse Recruiting Profile

A coach's guide to lacrosse recruiting stats: which numbers matter for each position, where the season data already lives, and how to send it.

Lacrosse stats leaderboard sorted by ground balls per player
guides

Lacrosse Ground Ball Stats: What to Track and Why

Lacrosse ground ball stats show which team is winning possessions. How to track them by player, why your rate beats your total, and what to fix at practice.

Lacrosse shot chart plotting goals, shots on goal, and misses, with shooting stats for the left, center, and right zones
guides

Reading Your Team's Shooting Chart

Your shooting chart has more to say than you think. Here's how to read it, what to look for, and what to change at practice.

Two phones showing lacrosse shot location entry and the Shooting Analytics shot chart in SquadProfile
updates

New Season, New Tools — Here's What We Built This Offseason

Staff invites, roster rollover, shooting heatmaps, and more — everything new for your spring season.