---
title: "Setting Up Metrics"
description: "Add ready-made test batteries or create your own metrics, and choose units, scoring direction, favorites and order."
category: "Perform"
published: "2026-10-16 15:49:56"
updated: "2026-10-16 15:49:56"
url: "https://www.hockeyshare.com/support/kb/perform/setting-up-metrics"
---

# Setting Up Metrics

A metric is one test you measure, such as **Vertical Jump**, **30m Sprint** or **Weight**. Metrics belong to the organization, so every coach in it records against the same list. Go to **Metrics & Data → Manage Metrics**.

## Step 1 — Start from a template

Click **Templates**. Each tab is a ready-made test battery:

- **Standard Hockey Combine** – height, weight, wingspan, body fat, jumps, agility, sprint, grip strength and pull-ups.
- **Off-Ice Testing** – strength, power, endurance and flexibility tests for a gym session.
- **On-Ice Speed/Agility** – timed skating tests such as 30m Forward and Backward Skate, Weave Agility and Full-Ice Sprint.

Every metric in the battery starts checked. Uncheck the ones you don't need, then click **Add Selected Metrics**. Metrics you already have with the same name are skipped. You can edit or delete any metric afterwards.

![Start from a Template window showing the Standard Hockey Combine metrics](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a12bd3-cc26-7a67-927b-e768e53c3b6c/-/format/webp/)

## Step 2 — Create a custom metric

Click **Create Custom Metric** and fill in the following:

- **Metric Name** and an optional **Description**.
- **Category** – Body Measurement, Strength, Explosiveness, Endurance, Speed, On-Ice or Other.
- **Value Type** – **Measurement** for numbers (height, weight, distance) or **Time** for timed tests.
- **Unit of Measurement** – the unit shown next to results, such as cm, kg, lbs or seconds.
- **What's Better?** – **Higher is Better** (vertical jump), **Lower is Better** (sprint time) or **Neutral** (height, weight).

![Create Custom Metric window for Slap Shot Speed in mph, Higher is Better](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a12bd3-f816-7677-ba1b-65868a6e6e9c/-/format/webp/)

## Step 3 — Organize your list

- **Star** a metric to make it a favorite. Favorites appear first in every metric dropdown.
- Click the **eye** icon to hide metrics you don't use.
- **Drag and drop** to change the order.

Favorites, hidden metrics and order are your own settings for this organization. They don't change what other coaches see.

![My Metrics list with favorite, hide, edit and delete icons for each metric](https://img.hockeyshare.com/01a12bd4-0143-7970-9a97-56e162cc54bc/-/format/webp/)

## Good to Know

- Free accounts can have up to 5 custom metrics per organization, and metrics added from templates count toward that. When you pick more than you have room for, only the first ones are added.
- **Neutral** metrics are tracked and charted, but they don't appear on leaderboards and have no improvement colors.
- For **Time** metrics, enter results as mm:ss (such as 4:30) or in seconds (such as 270).
- A metric can only be deleted when it has no test results. Delete its results first.
- Changing a metric's value type or unit later can change how existing results are displayed.
- Only editors, admins and owners can create, edit or delete metrics.

## Tips

- Set **What's Better?** carefully. It decides the leaderboard order and whether a change shows as an improvement.
- Put the unit in the unit field, not the name. "Vertical Jump" with unit "in" reads better on reports than "Vertical Jump (in)".
- Star the 4–5 tests you run most so they're at the top when you enter results.

Related:

- [Getting Started with Perform](/support/kb/perform/performance-overview)
- [Entering Results](/support/kb/perform/entering-test-results)