Work the wellness watch list

Daily check-ins pick up the quiet problems. Read the grid, act on flags, pause the players who shouldn’t be asked, and keep the watch list honest.

Players don't report the slow problems: the sleep that's been poor for a week, the mood that's been low since they lost their spot, the soreness they're quietly managing. Daily wellness check-ins catch those, and the Wellness page turns them into a short, honest watch list. This page covers how to read it, when to act and, just as important, how to stop players who shouldn't be asked from crowding it.

Where the numbers come from

Players in squads that use check-ins get a 7am prompt in their app, with a follow-up reminder at 9am: five questions scored 1 to 5 (sleep quality, freshness, soreness, stress and mood, where higher is always better), hours slept and an optional note. It takes thirty seconds, and the five answers average into a composite score.

Check-ins are switched on programme by programme under Settings → Modules → Daily wellness check-in. Turn them on only where someone will actually read the results. A squad that's switched on but never submits just fills your page with grey.

Find your way round

Wellness is in your Medical menu, and its red count is the number of flags nobody has dealt with yet (the same number as the wellness figure above the injury board). It has three tabs:

  • Check-ins: today's picture, with a Comments today card when there are notes, and a 14-day grid of every player's scores.
  • Watch list: the flags waiting for you. It covers the whole club on purpose, with no team filter to hide someone behind.
  • Trends: check-in rate by squad and the average composite over time, for 14, 30 or 90 days.

Read the grid

One squad’s fortnight at a glance. You’re reading shapes, not cells (1): a row drifting red across days is a conversation waiting to happen.

Each square is one player's composite for one day, coloured by band: green Ready (3.5 and up), amber Mixed, red Heavy (under 2.5) and grey No check-in. You're reading shapes, not squares. Jack Ashcombe's row, red four days running, is a conversation. Theo Farrell drifting between red and green is worth a look. A column of grey every Monday is a question for the squad, and a Paused label means the row is dark on purpose.

When it's there, the Comments today card is the most valuable thirty seconds on the page. It shows this morning's notes, including notes from check-ins a player started and didn't finish, marked Not submitted. Those are often the ones that matter.

Tap any player for their clinical view, "Last 90 days · Clinical view". It shows their Compliance, Latest score and Active flags above the composite trend, then their Flag history, a Daily history with every note, and an Edit ledger so late corrections stay visible. It's the same view wherever a player's name appears on the Wellness page, so their full story is always one tap away.

Know what puts a player on the list

The watch list isn't a feeling. Three patterns put a player on it, and each shows on the player's row in plain words:

Shows asWhat caused it
3 days low moodMood of 2 or less on each of the last three days
Run-down 3 daysComposite of 2.5 or less on each of the last three days
Missed 4+ check-insFour or more reminded days in the last fortnight with nothing submitted. A player who was never asked is never flagged for missing it

Squads with connected wearables can also show Recovery below baseline, when heart-rate variability is down and resting heart rate is up against the player's own recent normal. Flags also clear by themselves when the signal recovers, so a player who bounces back before you get to them moves to Cleared without you.

The watch list: Pending is your queue, Cleared is the last week’s record. Action & clear (1) restarts the player’s tracking. It’s a decision, not a snooze.

Act on a flag

The watch list shows Pending and Cleared (for the last 7 days). You may also see an Actioned group, holding flags dealt with under an earlier version of the list. When nobody needs you, it says so: Everyone's doing well.

Action & clear on a pending row is the one decision you make here, and it's final on purpose. It takes the player off the list, clears every flag they have, and restarts their tracking from today, so they only come back on a new run of low scores or missed check-ins. The follow-up note is optional, but write one anyway. It stays in the player's flag history, and "Spoke with player, added recovery session" is what makes next month's pattern readable. Once cleared, the row shows Actioned, like Nico Delgado's.

Warning: Action & clear records that you looked, decided and moved on. It isn't a snooze. If you're not ready to decide, leave the flag pending. A flag that's been pending for a while tells you something too.

Pause the players who shouldn't be asked

A player out for the season with an ACL doesn't need a daily "how fresh do you feel?", and their missed check-ins would bury the flags that matter. Pause check-ins is in the player's clinical view, and on their injury details too, where the end date starts from their expected return to match when one is set. It opens Pause wellness check-ins: They won't be asked, and won't appear on the watch list for missing check-ins. Set a Paused until date and check-ins start again by themselves the day after, or leave it empty to pause until you Resume. Their row stays on the grid with a Paused label, so nobody wonders where they went.

Leave the date empty to pause until you resume, or set one and check-ins come back on their own.

Who's told what

The morning flags are worked out, each programme's technical director gets one summary notification, for example Wellness flags · BYL, "2 new flags this morning. Tap to review." You don't get one. The red count and this page are how flags reach you, on purpose: a flag needs a clinical eye in context, not a phone buzzing at 10am. If a check-in note tells you something beyond wellness, the safeguarding path applies as it would anywhere else.

Confirm it worked

  • The watch list spends most of its time at Everyone's doing well, because pending flags get a decision within a day.
  • Every long-term injury has check-ins paused with an end date, so no Missed 4+ check-ins from players who can't train anyway.
  • Your follow-up notes would let a locum physio work out why each flag was cleared.
  • You read Comments today before the grid. The notes are where players actually talk.

Last reviewed 30 Sept 2026

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