aggie98
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Post by aggie98 on Mar 1, 2006 11:51:43 GMT -6
Are there certain computer programs for building an offensive playbook? If so where can you get one or is it easier to make one yourself. I want something to where you can draw up the plays, with blocking and everything. Any suggestions?
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coacht
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Post by coacht on Mar 1, 2006 12:05:32 GMT -6
I am interested as well. Also, I would like to know what most of you include in your playbooks other than just the plays. Do any of you put together any of the professional looking playbooks?
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Post by knight9299 on Mar 1, 2006 12:09:36 GMT -6
I use Microsoft Publisher. I can do about everything I want with it. I have my eye on a couple coaching software packages, but at $800 for all the tools I want, I'll have to wait...
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Post by brophy on Mar 1, 2006 12:19:40 GMT -6
aztec has a really cool template he uses out of Power Point
cqmiller has a really slick looking package out of Word
I use excel exclusively and you can copy & paste out of that....
All those Microsoft products can be thrown into Publisher then "printed" to an Adobe Acrobat file to be 'professional'.
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 1, 2006 12:28:35 GMT -6
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aggie98
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Post by aggie98 on Mar 1, 2006 12:40:50 GMT -6
How do you go about drawing up the plays though? I like what cqmiller has but how do you do all of that
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 1, 2006 12:44:50 GMT -6
Using the draw tool in word. It is usually at the bottom of the screen when you are in word. If not you need to activate it by going to View, Toolbars, Drawing.
Takes a long time to get the first formation and things drawn, but then you just copy, paste, and move around until you like how it looks.
Once I got all my ideas down on the document, (which took FOREVER), then I spent my spare time, tidying up, and getting things to look the way I wanted.
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 1, 2006 12:45:41 GMT -6
Just play around on word for a while, and you will begin to see what you like and dislike about the tools.
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aggie98
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Post by aggie98 on Mar 1, 2006 12:56:33 GMT -6
Thanks for the help!
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aggie98
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Post by aggie98 on Mar 1, 2006 13:38:35 GMT -6
My next question is how did you get the player's positions in the circles.
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Post by knight9299 on Mar 1, 2006 13:44:34 GMT -6
My next question is how did you get the player's positions in the circles. Draw a circle with the draw tool, then use the text box tool to create a text box inside the circle. |
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 1, 2006 13:51:08 GMT -6
And Make sure that you have it centered. Some of the letters won't get shown if you don't have the text centered in the box.
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aggie98
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Post by aggie98 on Mar 1, 2006 14:16:34 GMT -6
i HAVE WORKED ON IT FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AND IT IS PRETTY EASY WHEN YOU GET IT GOING. I STILL COULD NOT GET THE LETTERS IN THE CIRCLES, SO I WROTE THEM ABOVE THE CIRCLES AND IT LOOKS OK.
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Post by coachsml7 on Mar 1, 2006 14:34:54 GMT -6
I use powerpoint. I then teach the offense using a smartboard and a projector rather than using paper playbooks. It also gives you the opportiunity to show film of the plays you are installing that day.
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Post by cqmiller on Mar 1, 2006 15:13:15 GMT -6
how big are your circles? And what size is your font? You need to make it so that it will fit inside. Just draw a circle, and then Right Click. You should see "Add Text". then you can type in the letters.
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Post by sls on Mar 1, 2006 20:14:27 GMT -6
Try using wordart instead of a textbox, then you can easily change the sizes of the circles and keep the same proportion.
I have used Publisher, Word, and Powerpoint. I have found Powerpoint the easiet best looking myself. I do really like Brophy's excel stuff.
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Post by dmp225 on Mar 1, 2006 20:30:56 GMT -6
brophy,
can you post one of your excel playbooks?
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CoachAc
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Post by CoachAc on Mar 3, 2006 10:45:01 GMT -6
Fellas powerpont is as easy as it gets. You can have the full playbook automated to show the play and how it develops against any defense with very little work and you can also insert video cliops which I believe someone said already. You can even set a master template if you want so you wouldnt have to draw your offense or defense set again if you want to run it against all your options. VERY EASY FELLAS.
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Post by homeoftheo on Mar 4, 2006 6:10:28 GMT -6
Can you tell me how to automate my plays then? I think this would be a HUGE asset--I just haven't figured it out yet.
Thanks
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Post by homeoftheo on Mar 4, 2006 6:21:14 GMT -6
Nevermind I answered my own questions just by fiddling with it and not being afraid to make a mistake.
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ike2112
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Post by ike2112 on Mar 5, 2006 15:33:31 GMT -6
Homeoftheo,
You're a better man than I am - I've been trying to do this for over a week. Would you (or one of the other coaches) mind dropping me a note explaining how to do this?
My email is ike@blueyonder.co.uk
Thank you
I previously did something a little bit of the long way, but it makes a nice end product.
Make templates for each position on Word - circles/triangles with letters in them. Can make them team colours too (Defense in colour of arch rival).
Copy them into Micro Paint, drag and drop into formations vs different defenses - make templates of all formations vs a few defenses.
Then using each template draw each play on Paint. Crop the area around the play using 'attributes' to change the size of drawing space.
Click 'select all' and copy the play, then paste into Word Doc.
I did this with all our plays - like having an image of each play. Can fit one play vs 4 defenses on a page.
Using excel, write each player responsibility for play in a table format.
Copy and paste this into your Word Doc.
You now have a playbook with plays diagrammed vs a few Ds, small but clear diagrams. No chance of lines being moved or line spacing messing up. Table underneath details responsibilities.
It's not the best I've ever seen, but it is very presentable.
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Post by coachjimd on Mar 5, 2006 19:57:05 GMT -6
coach I use playmaker. It was cheap and if you set up some templates, it is quite simple
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Post by Mav on Mar 6, 2006 18:08:02 GMT -6
The one simple feature Powerpoint has that Word or Excel doesn't have is the ability to flip the play to go in the other direction.
Draw an offensive with all of the detail going to the right -- then 'group' all of the object and flip it. It looks perfect with everything going to the left. You then can 'ungroup' and make any adjustments.
Not sure why Word and Excel can't also do this??? Of course you can turn it into an image, but you lose all editing capabilities.
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flyer1
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Post by flyer1 on Mar 7, 2006 11:34:01 GMT -6
Excel allows you to use Word, PowerPoint, Pictures, and Video. When you click on them in Excel it allows them to run, eg. PowerPoint presentations become slide shows when you click on the inserted slide and videos that are inserted will run on Windows Media Player.
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Post by Mav on Mar 7, 2006 16:30:54 GMT -6
Excel allows you to use Word, PowerPoint, Pictures, and Video. When you click on them in Excel it allows them to run, eg. PowerPoint presentations become slide shows when you click on the inserted slide and videos that are inserted will run on Windows Media Player. It's true, all Office products have this ability. I think Microsoft calls it embedding/OLE, but of course every user must have each application used installed on their computer. This discussion of whcih Microsot Office product is best always comes up. Truth is, MS Office is a Suite of applications, each doing it's primary function the best -- Excel for spreadsheets/numbers, Powerpoint for presentations, Word for printed docs, Visio for drawing, Frontpage for web, etc The ideal playbook system would use the complete suite and link then all together. You'd have one 'base' application you feel most comfortable with, then if you wanted to draw plays you'd use the Visio app, for presentations you'd link it to Powerpoint, to create a hardcopy playbook you'd link to Word, etc. The best part about this way of doing it is when you make a change anywhere in the playbook, it's reflected throughout each application. This was the original idea behind putting togther a suite of user applications. Now if someone could just package togther a free MS Office Add-on for creating football playbooks we'd be all set. Any takers? |
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Post by runthespread on Mar 7, 2006 21:11:56 GMT -6
Playmaker Pro is not too bad. About $100
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x00cooper1
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Post by x00cooper1 on Mar 7, 2006 21:51:53 GMT -6
The ideal playbook system would use the complete suite and link then all together. You'd have one 'base' application you feel most comfortable with, then if you wanted to draw plays you'd use the Visio app, for presentations you'd link it to Powerpoint, to create a hardcopy playbook you'd link to Word, etc. The best part about this way of doing it is when you make a change anywhere in the playbook, it's reflected throughout each application. This was the original idea behind putting togther a suite of user applications. Now if someone could just package togther a free MS Office Add-on for creating football playbooks we'd be all set. Any takers? MAV do you know how to do the linking? I use all apps in the suite but not sure how to link certain aspects so that a change in one would reflect in others. For example can you draw in viso, link it to word and/or powerpoint and then make a change to the drawing and it updates in word and/or powerpoint. If so that would save a lot of time for me. |
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Post by Mav on Mar 9, 2006 11:27:28 GMT -6
MAV do you know how to do the linking? I use all apps in the suite but not sure how to link certain aspects so that a change in one would reflect in others. For example can you draw in viso, link it to word and/or powerpoint and then make a change to the drawing and it updates in word and/or powerpoint. If so that would save a lot of time for me. Sure-- there's 3 ways to put together data from MS Office apps. 1) Embed - this is the simplest method everyone usually uses. All you do is cut and paste. When you edit the object you're actually using the original app, but it's not updated in the original app. 2) Paste special - use copy, then when you paste it, choose the 'paste special' option. This makes a snapshot or 'image' copy of the original. 3) Link - from the app you're copying to, choose 'Insert' from the menu bar, then 'Object...', then choose the original file. They'll be different options depending on which app you're in, but be sure to choose 'Link'. Play around with it and you'll see how it works. |
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