An assessment groups several metrics into one testing or screening protocol, such as a CMJ, a pro agility test, a neck strength test or a DEXA scan, so you record every input for that test in one place. This guide covers building an assessment, recording results for it, testing it in a workout, and calculating a score from it.
Building an assessment
Assessments live with your other metrics. Open Metrics, go to the Metrics tab, click Add metric, and choose Assessment (1).
The New assessment panel asks for:
Name and Color.
What this assessment reports: the Measurement type and unit of the assessment's own headline result, not of the metrics inside it. Custom takes a Custom unit you type in.
+ Description, to explain how the test is run. Coaches and athletes see it when they record results.
Click Create assessment. Metrics and a formula can only attach to a saved assessment, so FYTT opens the new assessment's data page. Click Edit at the top of its Info panel to open the editor and build the protocol. To edit an assessment later, click Edit there again, or click its row on the Metrics tab. The editor adds + Video for an instructional video.
Adding metrics to an assessment
The Metrics section (1) of the editor lists the metrics the protocol records. Click Add metric (2) and search.
Pick an existing metric from the results to insert it.
If nothing matches, choose New metric to create one. The metric editor opens, and saving or cancelling brings you back to the assessment.
Inserted metrics leave the main list
A metric inside an assessment no longer shows on the Metrics tab or as its own column on the Data tab. It keeps working in reports and conditions. To list it again on the Metrics tab, set the Assessment metrics filter to Show.
To take a metric out, click the × on its row and confirm Remove metric. The metric returns to the main list with every measurement recorded against it.
Tracking percentile
Under Advanced, turn on Track percentile to rank each athlete's result against everyone else tested on the assessment. Show on athlete profile lets athletes see the assessment and its results on their own profile.
Click Save changes to keep your edits. Delete removes the assessment, and any automation conditions that rely on it. The metrics inside it aren't deleted: they return to the main metrics list with their measurements.
Recording results
Every value recorded for an assessment is saved as a measurement on the metric it belongs to, so results show up wherever those metrics do: reports, leaderboards, automations and formulas. See Metrics for how measurements behave.
The assessment grid
Click the assessment's column header on the Data tab, or View data on its row on the Metrics tab, to open its grid: a row for each athlete and a column for each metric in the assessment. The Info panel beside it lists those metrics; click one to open its own page. Edit (1) at the top of the panel opens the assessment's editor. Observers, who can't edit metrics, don't see it.
Type in a cell to record that metric's measurement on the as of date in the toolbar. Right-click a cell for the athlete's history for that metric. The grid works like the metrics grid in every other way.
Recording one athlete
On the Data tab, the assessment's own column is read-only. Right-click an athlete's cell in it, then click Add measurement. Record measurement opens with a field for every metric in the assessment, all under one Date, each showing the athlete's last result. Leave a field blank to skip it, and click Save.
From an athlete's profile, Record › Measurement lists the metrics on the profile's panels. A panel that shows the assessment itself offers Record the whole assessment, which opens the same fields. A panel showing just one of its metrics records only that metric. See Reports for adding panels to a profile.
Adding an assessment to a workout
To have athletes record the test themselves, add it to a block: in the block editor, click Add assessment and choose the assessment. Athletes enter a result for each of its metrics in the workout, and each is saved as a new measurement. The button appears once your organization has an assessment. See Blocks.
Calculating a score
An assessment can calculate its headline result from its metrics. The demo's Relative Squat assessment divides Back Squat 1RM by Weight.
Open Formula in the editor, turn on Custom formula (1), and build the Expression (2) from numbers, operators and the assessment's own metrics. Add metrics before building a formula shows until the assessment has at least one. Once an athlete has values for the inputs, FYTT calculates the result on that date and saves it as a measurement on the assessment. It recalculates in the background whenever an input changes, from the grid, a recording or a workout.
A calculated assessment gets a column of its own on the Data tab and at the end of its grid. See Formulas for how to write expressions.
Assessments vs. surveys
Both group metrics, but for different jobs. An assessment is objective testing you or your staff run, such as a jump test, a sprint or a body composition scan. A survey collects answers athletes report themselves, such as readiness, soreness or sleep, and can be sent through workouts, the apps or automations.