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Post by nltdiego on Aug 12, 2013 18:13:08 GMT -6
Coaches,
I'm hosting a 4 team scrimmage next week and want to make sure all players (1's-3s) get reps to prepare for the season.
Does anybody have a format they suggest or like where you play each team once?
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Post by joker31 on Aug 12, 2013 20:09:35 GMT -6
Couple ways to do this. You can talk to the coach during your scrimmages to match 1sts and 2nds, we've also had a mix of 1sts and 2nds at one time and named them by our school colour teams. We'll start Red in one game then Blue in another.
3rds will play in all, but more against the worst team there. The best opportunity to develop some confidence... unless we are the worst team lol
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Post by rpetrie on Aug 13, 2013 15:26:52 GMT -6
For our Multi-team scrimmage our play breakdown is usually (10) 1st-Team O/D plays = 24 total; (6) 2nd-Team O/D plays = 32 total per session...we scrimmage 3 teams for a total of 94 plays
Breakdown usually goes similar to this...
- 1st Team players get about 40 total plays between O/D
- 2nd Team players get about 30-35 total plays between O/D
- 3rd Team players get the remaining 15-20 total plays
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Post by vanden48 on Aug 2, 2016 21:36:59 GMT -6
Is there anybody that has any other formats for a 4 team preseason controlled scrimmage? How many plays should there be in each match up. Should we rotate teams every series or play one team on offense then defense, than rotate teams?
I only have one field to use.
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Post by coachtua on Aug 2, 2016 22:24:40 GMT -6
We have done it this way before.
15 plays 1v1 O and D = 30
10 plays 2v2 O and D = 20
7 plays everyone else O and D = 14
First team = 90 reps
Second team = 60 reps
everyone else = 42 reps
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Post by realdawg on Aug 3, 2016 3:02:43 GMT -6
We have done it where each team plays each other 10 play O and 10 plays D. (if I were the original poster, I would do this twice and the second time around the 2s get 5 reps and the 3s get the other 5). Then each team plays all the others for a quarter with a running clock.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 3, 2016 3:06:28 GMT -6
We have done it where each team plays each other 10 play O and 10 plays D. (if I were the original poster, I would do this twice and the second time around the 2s get 5 reps and the 3s get the other 5). Then each team plays all the others for a quarter with a running clock.
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Post by blb on Aug 3, 2016 7:38:23 GMT -6
We divided the number of plays between 1s and 2s.
For example, if we had 20 plays, 1s got 10 and 2s got 10.
Didn't really care what opponents did.
If we had 3s they split time with 2s.
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Post by vanden48 on Aug 3, 2016 10:31:35 GMT -6
I am asking about how many plays to have between the teams, I don't care how the other teams divide up their 1's and 2's. With 4 teams we will obviously have 3 scrimmages for each team. Do I give team 10 plays of offense each? 15 plays? Do I have Team A go offense vs Team B defense, then have Team A go defense vs Team C Offense? Or just team A vs Team B offense and defense then rotate teams?
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Post by blb on Aug 3, 2016 10:41:47 GMT -6
I am asking about how many plays to have between the teams, I don't care how the other teams divide up their 1's and 2's. With 4 teams we will obviously have 3 scrimmages for each team. Do I give team 10 plays of offense each? 15 plays? Do I have Team A go offense vs Team B defense, then have Team A go defense vs Team C Offense? Or just team A vs Team B offense and defense then rotate teams?
When I was at Division II (second biggest enrollment classification) school with 40-50 players we did 20 plays on Offense, 20 plays on Defense against each team.
When I was at a Division V-VI school with 20-30 players we did 15 plays each.
No need to out-think the room. Team A goes against Team B on both Offense and Defense, Team C vs. D likewise, then rotate until all four teams have faced the other three.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 6, 2016 15:19:24 GMT -6
We divided the number of plays between 1s and 2s. For example, if we had 20 plays, 1s got 10 and 2s got 10. Didn't really care what opponents did. If we had 3s they split time with 2s. It's all about each team getting their guys ready. Sometimes the 1s need a ton of work to get up to full speed. Especially if they are inexperienced for whatever reason (this is especially true in small school ball). If you can't find a scrimmage with relatively comparable competition & feel like your 2s are at danger going against somebody's 1s then I suggest finding a new scrimmage. |
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Post by norcaldiaz on Aug 7, 2016 9:06:20 GMT -6
Simplest way I've ever done it was to have two simultaneous scrimmages happening from the +40 YL with 15 min running clock on the scoreboard. One team stays on O the whole time, driving the ball and restarting at the 40 following a TD, turnover, or failure to move the chains. After 15 min, O and D switch. Repeat until you've played each opponent.
Puts the ownness on each teams coaches to get their team the appropriate amount of reps they feel is needed.
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