Sport has long been caught in a cultural clash between the individualistic, daring players and the efficient, functional ones. We offer an alternative. The relationship-based team. This is where every player times their movements in relationship to others to open and close space. This style is fun to play and thrilling to watch and more competitive in today’s sports, where games are refereed with an emphasis on player welfare making it harder for the attritional system formats to work.

Most Sports coaches don't know how to set up these relational teams. Sports coaches are generally trained to break down their sport into specific, measurable functions. They instruct their players on how to execute each defined function and create systems to help players react at speed to execute the correct function. When any of us, including coaches focus on fulfilling a specific function assigned to us, we often become more mechanical…