Force plates provide more detailed power assessment by measuring ground force, rate of force development, and impulse.

“Now, if you can do that on a force plate, that's even better. So these are, basically, scales that will go out to multiple digits, sometimes five to nine digits past zero. And you're going to stand on these things, you're going to do the exact same test. And these are very interesting because they'll tell you not only how high you jump, but they'll tell you how much force you put in the ground. They can also tell you how long it took you-- and this is called your rate of force development-- as well as impulse”