{"id":254075,"date":"2025-10-31T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254075\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:47:12","slug":"seattle-reign-coach-laura-harvey-used-chatgpt-play-back-five-formation-details-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254075\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Reign coach Laura Harvey used ChatGPT, play back five formation, details, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Harvey, the head coach at Seattle Reign, has revealed how ChatGPT inspired her to make a key tactical change in the team\u2019s 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvey, who won FA WSL manager of the year in 2011 and is currently in her second stint in charge of the Reign, made the admission in an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jx-9Z65AGQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Soccerish Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle has enjoyed a stellar turnaround this season, finishing the year fourth to earn a spot in the playoffs after languishing in second-last in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>An intrigued Harvey said one day in the offseason she started to test out just how accurate and helpful ChatGPT could be, starting by asking broader questions like \u201cwhat is Seattle Reign\u2019s identity\u201d and \u201cwhat do you need to do to be successful in the NWSL?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it would spurt it out,\u201d Harvey explained. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like \u2018I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true or not\u2019, and then I put in \u2018what formation should you play to beat NWSL teams?\u2019 and it spurted out every team in the league and what formation you should play. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for two teams, it went \u2018you should play a back five.\u2019 So I did. No joke, that\u2019s why I did it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was early in the season and I said to the coaching staff, I\u2019m not joking this is what I did. And they were like, \u2018huh, interesting\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Reign played with a back five against Orlando Pride in a 1-0 loss earlier in the year, while Harvey went on to adopt the tactical change at various other points in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey said the suggestion from ChatGPT made her want to look into the back five formation even more, having \u201cnever really done a lot of research on it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE, WASHINGTON &#8211; SEPTEMBER 16: Laura Harvey. (Photo by Soobum Im\/NWSL via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d never really invested into how it could be played in the women\u2019s game. I\u2019d only ever really seen it from afar, you know, watching men\u2019s games really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But after the suggestion from ChatGPT, she said the coaching staff \u201cdid a deep dive on it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought about how we could play it,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we went for it, and we liked it. It worked. We won the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t tell you how to play it or what to do in it or any of that stuff. It was just like \u2018this is what we would say to do\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018alright\u2019. And that was what spurred me to look into it. So then I really looked into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve come in and out of it (the back five). Now we\u2019re quite fluid, we can float in and out of it within games, and I love that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear coaches saying, \u2018we don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to do, you\u2019re the hardest team to prepare for, you defend in multiple ways in games\u2019. I\u2019m just like, \u2018yes!\u2019 I want everyone to not have a clue what we\u2019re going to do. I think that is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Harvey, the head coach at Seattle Reign, has revealed how ChatGPT inspired her to make a key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-254075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}