How fancy is your call sheet?

We try to limit our looks week by week.

Always going to roll with 2x2 and 3x1, but we have various 11, 12, 20, 21, 30, 32 formations, and we like to practice the ones we feel give us the best advantage (maybe 5-7) and roll with those.

Having the script makes sure we don't send a play the wrong way, etc.

We run 4 formations a week. Plus a 2x2 "Spread" and a "Goalline" set.
I have color - just red, I fill in the cells with the formation names in them. Just helps me separate it a little bit. Other than that I'm like groundchuck - just the plays for me. All that other field position/hash/down & distance/3rd and 3.684 yds stuff is up there somewhere in my head. We do put a number beside each play. We have about 60 plays a week - that includes the formation in the play name. So we just run "Play 3" in and QB reads the whole call off his band.

I type it because  I'm OCD about neatness and my handwriting sucks plus I was a finance major so I like excel and have it linked from the sheet to the bands. The biggest thing though is our OL coach likes a copy on Fridays and if I wrote it he couldn't read it.

I was one of those idiots with a call sheet that looked like a color coded financial report from JP Morgan.

First ten plays scripted (which usually changed when we were picking grass out of our face masks on the third play)
1st and ten
3rd and short
goal line (which essentially were the same calls as 3rd and short)
quick passes
Misdirection
Deep threats
Even scripted plays for various players

We were a quick tempo/wristband team and I didn't want to think too much when getting the play in.

I even had the conversion chart on whether to go for one or go for two.  As I reflect, it appears that like to think as little as possible.

As my college coach used to tell me, I'm no Phi Beta Kappa (let me save you a Google search-It's the fraternity for smart kids).

No wonder Mike gave up play calling!!

Who's that guy standing with John Knight?

I take 3 pieces of paper and fold it in 1/2 like a book. I have my 1st down type calls on the first page. on the last page I have my gl/sy defense and passes calls. in the middle on one page I have my punt block and return look and a couple of adjustments from the back of my head that I have been thinking about but haven't really told anyone except maybe a LB just in case. the rest of the papers are blank and I write notes to myself or add to or narrow down the plan when the offense is on the field. if things are going well its sits in my pocket like an old blanky..if not I like to have it just in case I am missing something. Unfortunately, paper doesn't help when you are getting blown off the ball

At the HS level I just don't see the need.

College/pro level spend most of their practice time on situation specific elements to attack/defend so I can see it there. Plus they have playbooks that rival war and peace lol

I think this is one of HS biggest errors. Practicing situations is so critical & can give a team the edge. The great teams we see have things they do very well situationally. The average teams we see don't have much variation between what they are doing on 1-10 VS red zone run or pass.

Mine is probably more complicated than what it really needs to be. Side one is all of the formations we can run our particular plays out of. Side two is the openers, 3rd downs, GL/Backedup, 2minute, Must Runs, 1st Down passes. Side two has about a third of it blank for me to just write in notes as needed and also has a section for the wristband.

Personally, the biggest advantage (in my opinion) of putting together the call sheet is that it imprints your offense in your head to the point of not needing to ever look at it. Kind of like the kid making a cheat sheet for a test and then not ever having to reference it.

Hand written on a piece of card stock. One side there is the opponents tendencies by down and distance with there too threw plays in that situation. On the other side is the calls we want to make in each down and distance. Usually stick to it about 2 series tops and then start calling it based off of the feel of the game.

Mine is pretty fancy for HS, BUT mine is a worksheet, not just a call sheet. I fill it out on Sunday and it has my answers, my checks, what they've run in certain situations etc. The reason I have all that is b/c by typing/writing it all up it helps me memorize it. For some reason I have to draw/type/write things up to memorize them. Once I do, they are locked in there, but if I don't, I'm clueless. There's always that little guy sitting on my shoulder that's telling me if I don't do this, I'll forget something. So far I haven't, so I guess it's been good. At face value though, many would say it's overkill, BUT it's my security blanket.

Offensively, being flexbone, I pretty much had it memorized what I wanted to do, but always carried a list of our formations and plays just in case.

Duece

Seriously?

I get that but how many of us does that apply to?