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Post by coryell2009 on Mar 2, 2009 17:07:23 GMT -6
What programs/software do you guys use to put together a playbook? I've been going over it with Powerpoint but it is really time consuming because I'm not a pro. Any tips on the structure of the playbook? Here's my preemptive table of contents..
Chapter 1: Formations and Motion Calls
Chapter 2: Run Blocking/Demonstrations of Run Game
Chapter 3: Pass Plays/Pass Pro and Calls
Chapter 4: 4-Minute/2-Minute Offense
Chapter 5: Team Rules/Player Contract
Any ideas would be fine and help would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by bobgoodman on Mar 2, 2009 17:39:00 GMT -6
Who is the playbook for? Your coaching staff, your players, or people like us? I think you mean "presumptive", not "preemptive".
As to software, these days desktop publishing, word processing, and graphics programs overlap each other's functions so much you can use just about any. Some use spreadsheet format, but I wouldn't recommend it except possibly to make tables to import into another format; you don't really need nor benefit much from spreadsheet format.
For diagrams, Ted Seay has player icons that AFAIK are either his or public domain and that he allows people to clip and use, which can make your diagrams a little clearer than Xs & Os. The GIMP (Graphic Image Manipulation Program) is freeware AFAIK and has enormous capability, including reading & writing in a great many formats, but is a little hard to learn to use. Jelsoft has shareware playbook creating programs that also use player icons and are a little more convenient than, say, OpenOffice Draw.
For passages without much text, don't neglect the convenience of a pencil.
What do you mean by "Demonstrations of Run Game"?
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Post by coryell2009 on Mar 2, 2009 17:48:06 GMT -6
Sorry, plays diagrammed against various fronts.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Mar 2, 2009 23:33:08 GMT -6
Coach,
I use Paint to make and save my plays, once you get used to it, it's really fast.
Have little "men" on both sides that I can put different colored uniforms on.
Then I use MS Pub. to create playbooks of any kind or format that I want. Really simple to do.
What I've done for the last 3 years is to use MS Pub. and put 6 plays per page of plays I've created in Paint and stored in My Documents.
I'm not computer guy, so it would have to be easy to do, if I'm doing it.
OJW
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Post by tpbuck on Mar 3, 2009 10:28:45 GMT -6
I use Powerpoint. It's easy and there are a lot of options. I've seen some great Powerpoint playbooks. Much better than mine.
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Post by scoresomemore on Mar 3, 2009 10:55:23 GMT -6
i second the powerpoint idea, you can do a lot with graphics and dress. but another great factor is that you can make the play's show in motion. moving the shapes (players) to their assignment and ends up giving a good look for visual learners.
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Post by ftbll7801 on Mar 3, 2009 11:00:34 GMT -6
Can someone share a template or something of the powerpoint deal. I am newbie to the ppt stuff and am not sure how to do it. I appreciate anything that you guys share.
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Post by John Knight on Mar 3, 2009 11:30:36 GMT -6
 Just save as a jpg and insert into powerpoint Tell me what you want and I will see what I can find. email me at bigjohn390@yaho.com I will send you some templates. |
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Post by John Knight on Mar 3, 2009 11:38:37 GMT -6
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Post by mariner42 on Mar 3, 2009 14:43:41 GMT -6
Just so I'm sure I'm reading it correctly, You've got 9 JPGs inserted there and then cropped to fit what you want, correct?
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Post by bb7400 on Mar 3, 2009 15:03:32 GMT -6
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Post by MaineManiac on Mar 3, 2009 18:04:29 GMT -6
We dabbled with a few of the playbook software technologies and determined we could get just as much out of word. I've love to see a version of a PPT playbook to see how much better it is than ours.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2009 18:16:27 GMT -6
I used to use Excel. Now I just draw the things
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Post by justryn2 on Mar 3, 2009 19:11:08 GMT -6
I use PowerPoint for the play diagrams but Word for the playbook itself. PowerPoint makes it really easy to draw up the plays and them export them as graphics like a GIF format that you can import right into Word.
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Post by John Knight on Mar 4, 2009 8:20:41 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 4, 2009 11:22:14 GMT -6
I did my entire playbook on word while I was playing college football. Took the laptop on all of our football road trips and put them together... O, D, & ST. Now I am trying to get them all put over to powerpoint so I don't have to do any drawing on boards and I can add video and animation to my powerpoints to make it much easier. If you want a copy of either my word docs or what I have done so far with my Powerpoint, PM me and I'll send it to you. Here is an example of one of my pages on the powerpoint:  |
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Post by coachweigelt on Mar 4, 2009 11:44:56 GMT -6
use powerpoint, once you have your temp it is ver easy   |
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Post by unc31 on Mar 4, 2009 12:02:34 GMT -6
Coach I would love to see your playbooks and any other diagramming tools. Thanks
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 4, 2009 17:39:41 GMT -6
Coach this is our playbook from a couple years ago done in Power Point: www.gridironchat.com/resources/Multiple Front 3-5-3 Defense.ppt Looking at it now, I honestly think I could do better, I was just learning then. I turned this into a DVD and narrated it for the players as well. I've used Excel too, you can make a nice playbook out of that (I think Brophy had some nice Excel playbooks?) This season it we used PlaymakerPro. For a printed out playbook, you can't beat the speed and the look... but it is almost $200. It ain't cheap, but its worth it. If you want to see that one let me know. |
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 4, 2009 19:32:09 GMT -6
School won't let me go to photobucket, so I reposted at home:  |
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Post by ccox16 on Mar 4, 2009 22:31:14 GMT -6
this is kinda interesting, I have worked for 2 different teams in the past 2 years and neither one has the playbook written out. All we do is just tell the kid "this is what your doing" now do it.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Mar 4, 2009 23:50:26 GMT -6
CQ, wrote, "I did my entire playbook on word while I was playing college football. Took the laptop on all of our football road trips and put them together" Man, when I was in college I listened to the Boss sing "Born to Run" on the radio and drew my plays on piece of paper.  lots and lots of paper. Man those were the days. |
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Post by coachweigelt on Mar 5, 2009 0:56:40 GMT -6
Coach I would love to see your playbooks and any other diagramming tools. Thanks are you talking about mine? I like the charts of CQ Miller very much, very organized why do you have 2 formations in 1 page? |
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 5, 2009 8:03:55 GMT -6
Coach I would love to see your playbooks and any other diagramming tools. Thanks are you talking about mine? I like the charts of CQ Miller very much, very organized why do you have 2 formations in 1 page? Because even with 2 on a page, by the time I show alignment in my 40 (4-3), 50 (Under), and 60 (Goaline) vs. 20, 21, 22, 10, 11, 12, 23, 32, personnel with all the formations I still have a 50 page slideshow without even going over any coverages, run-fits, rules, etc... Plus the size I have the football fields on each page is perfect. The LOS is directly inbetween the OL & DL, and the LB's are at exactly 5 yards on the sheet, and in many instances, the adjustments are the exact same vs. 2 different formations, just one is strong and one is weak... Just like the one I posted. The adjustments are EXACTLY THE SAME. Just Single is with WLB & FS while Trey is SLB & SS |
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 5, 2009 8:05:27 GMT -6
CQ, wrote, "I did my entire playbook on word while I was playing college football. Took the laptop on all of our football road trips and put them together" Man, when I was in college I listened to the Boss sing "Born to Run" on the radio and drew my plays on piece of paper. lots and lots of paper. Man those were the days. I thought I remember someone on the board saying something about dust coming out the rear-end OJW... ;D |
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 5, 2009 8:27:16 GMT -6
Once I have all of the alignments done, I go through and do responsibilities for each front. We go over these after we give teh kids all of the basic rules 1st. If they know the basic rules, then the info overload they get from these is easy to handle. The LB's know that they must bump to the side where the H goes in any formation with 1 back, prior to going over any of this, so they understand how their responisbilities change from the base:  |
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Post by jgordon1 on Mar 5, 2009 8:58:12 GMT -6
I use playmaker pro to create my diagrams and paste them into a word document for our defensive playbook. The playbook I make is for the coaches. I will give the kids small pieces of the playbook as we install. I have always felt that if you hand a kid a large document they won't read it or read the section we ask. but if you can give it in small bites...we think they will use it. I use the playbook myself and refer back to it just to keep the teaching and adjustments the same.. Any changes we make I note in the playbook. Selfishly, It keeps the JV and Frosh program on task...sometimes those guys come up w/ there own terminolgy and adjustements that are clearly spelled out in what we previously went over..a very sore spot for me... been coaching hs for ten years... have yet to see an offensive playbook..
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 5, 2009 10:07:03 GMT -6
We don't hand ours to the kids... We only use a page or 2 at a time in meetings. Our installation schedule has us teach our 40 front (4-3) in a week.
Day 1 = Base and all 21 personnel formations
Day 2 = Review all 21 personnel formations
Day 3 = Introduce all other personnel formations in base
Day 4 = Review all other personnel formations in base
Day 5 = REVIEW 40 vs. everything
After they know exactly where to line up, next comes the memorizing of the rules for different coverages.
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Post by shortpunter on Mar 5, 2009 10:17:43 GMT -6
I use both Photoshop and Flash to create the images and lines for the book then I have used publisher to put it togethr
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