Module 3
Team sociogram
The invisible structure of your squad, in one picture.
Every squad has a second structure that appears on no team sheet: who you look for in transition, who you turn to after a missed big chance, who gets listened to in the dressing room. The team sociogram captures that structure through seven short questions each player answers in three minutes, and makes it visible, including the players nobody names. Individual nominations stay anonymous; you see the overall picture, never who picked whom.
What's included
Every part of this module at a glance.
- Seven dimensions per player: task, social, leadership, trust, motivation, communication and defensive partnership
- Three switchable views: tiers for the structure, target for closeness to the team, impact chains for where to start
- Filter by dimension: the same squad sorted by leadership or defending gives a different picture
- Players with few mentions are visible – as a reason to observe and talk, not as a label
- Network metrics: density, reciprocity and detected cliques
- Three surveys per season show whether an intervention worked
- Anonymous survey: neither coaches nor teammates see individual nominations
Recommendations for you as a coach
Concretely: what you see in the data and what you do about it.
Notice early who is rarely mentioned
A player receives just a single nomination across all seven dimensions.
Observe in training, have an open one-to-one conversation and use changing small groups across the team. A buddy is optional and is asked, not assigned.
Raise the captaincy question
Leadership nominations converge on a player who is not the official captain.
Make the tasks explicit in the team: who speaks at half-time, who organizes the back line. Talk openly about who takes on responsibility informally instead of working against it.
Train coordination in defence
Only a few players are named in the defence question.
Train shifting and stepping out in rotating pairs, 10 minutes per session over four weeks. Understanding in the back line does not come from the fixture list.
Prove an intervention worked
After the winter break you want to know whether the buddy system paid off.
Compare survey 2 with survey 1: rising network density and reciprocity are the proof, or the signal that you need to adjust.
Preview
Example data from a sample team. This is how the analysis looks in your coach dashboard.
Three layers instead of rings: the top carries, the bottom depends. Every player gets their own spot.
Example squad with demo data. In your team the real names and nominations appear here.
Defence: train coordination across the whole team
What you see
In the defence question, 5 of 10 players were named. This evaluation deliberately does not show who wants to play next to whom: the picks stay anonymous.
What you do
- 1.
Train shifting and stepping out in rotating pairs, 10 min per session for 4 weeks, so everyone plays with several partners.
- 2.
Watch a defensive sequence on video together and talk about calls, not about individual players.
How it works
Open a survey
You open the survey for your team. The players then see the questionnaire in their app.
Answer anonymously
Seven questions, about three minutes. No teammate and no coach sees the individual nominations.
Read the structure and act
You see tiers, target and impact chains, and get concrete actions for every finding.
Is this right for your club?
Let's have a short conversation about which modules genuinely make sense for your squad size and league.