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Post by aspiringballcoach on Mar 9, 2018 11:30:32 GMT -6
Hello, aspiring coach here who needs a little help when watching film...
if you're watching film and trying to chart a teams offensive formations and they shift/motion out of their original formation into another do you chart the formation before the motion, after or both?
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Post by PIGSKIN11 on Mar 9, 2018 11:35:24 GMT -6
Are you using Hudl?
1 - I chart starting formation
2 - tag the motion with your verbiage - motion direction is important too
3 - add a new column, call it "End Form" or something... then tag what formation they are in at the snap
run reports as you see fit run to formation? or away? pass? run? etc...
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Post by agap on Mar 9, 2018 12:47:41 GMT -6
Tag the starting formation
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Post by groundchuck on Mar 9, 2018 12:52:51 GMT -6
Tag starting formation. Tag the motion in a motion column.
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Post by filmjunkie on Mar 10, 2018 23:48:14 GMT -6
Hello, aspiring coach here who needs a little help when watching film... if you're watching film and trying to chart a teams offensive formations and they shift/motion out of their original formation into another do you chart the formation before the motion, after or both? Depends week-to-week what you're looking at. If it's something you see 2-3 times over the course of breaking down a few games, keep it simple and move on. If it's a pattern (same formation shifting into another one over and over again, etc) make a note of it. Be careful of going too crazy with charting every single pre-shift formation, especially on P/10 or coming out of time outs. Remember that offensive guys do that stuff partly because they want you to waste time over-preparing for it instead of defending their base plays. I've seen plenty of other coaches tell their kids to stand wherever and just shift to the called formation as well. Like everything else, it all comes down to why they're doing it. If you're looking for specific examples, my HUDL columns would probably look something like this: MOTION FORMATIONYAC Shift To Ace ZAC Trips
And so on and so forth.
As I said before, I wouldn't bother charting the pre-shift formation unless there was some kind of pattern to it, or they were doing it constantly (like Matt Canada does). Just chart the guys who move and how they move to get an idea of why they're doing it.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 11, 2018 13:35:32 GMT -6
I will list the formation as the one the offense ends up in. On my practices scripts, I will list the starting formation and then the final formation so that we get reps seeing the shifts.
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Post by coachdmyers on Mar 12, 2018 14:43:10 GMT -6
As an offensive guy, I would suggest trying to figure out whether the starting formation or ending formation are something they run without motion, that should tell you which they go on. A lot of teams shift or motion into the formation they call, which would be the important thing to note when trying to figure out tendencies.
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