benr
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Post by benr on Sept 10, 2012 11:00:22 GMT -6
As part of my professional development I plan on using the coaches film from the NFL Game Rewind package to track the Houston Texans offense and defense this season.
In addition to tracking each call by personnel, down and distance, score differential, etc., I'd like to diagram each play. I'm a very visual learner so I think this would help me see things much more clearly.
What would you guys recommend to me as the best way to diagram these plays? I'm assuming that finding a to-scale drawing of an NFL field that I can print onto paper and then hand-drawing everything is probably the only way to do this? If so, does anybody have a link to a to-scale NFL field diagram? I've searched around on Google a bit and I have come up empty handed.
I'm open to suggestions so fire away!
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Post by mariner42 on Sept 10, 2012 14:46:21 GMT -6
MS Visio lets you create just about any kind of diagram you want from scratch. You set the scale, everything.
PPT lets you create a simpler version while still being complex enough to show things like shades, etc.
Playmaker is also an option, but usually most folks don't have access to it.
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kyle
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Post by kyle on Sept 10, 2012 15:33:44 GMT -6
Just make sure you get the expressed written consent of the National Football League.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 10, 2012 19:36:23 GMT -6
If you use 8.5"x14" grid paper with a 1/4" grid and scale it so that each square is a yard square you can draw it all to pretty good scale, if you prefer to do it by hand.
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Post by brophy on Sept 10, 2012 19:50:44 GMT -6
As far as game breakdowns, doesn't ESPN website do this already, where you can get play-by-play breakdowns of all those categories you mentioned (that way you don't have to do the hard work)? Here is a template....its geared for HS/NCAA hashes, but you can move them docs.google.com/open?id=0B3p5wkumv513eXBCM2lETTZfZU0F-all that noise of drawing by hand!!!! If you can make a template and print it out, you may as well use that same template and create the plays in the same manner. |
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 10, 2012 20:47:28 GMT -6
But then you don't have tidy gridlines on big paper and you can't pull out your drafting square!
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benr
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Post by benr on Sept 11, 2012 9:38:28 GMT -6
As far as game breakdowns, doesn't ESPN website do this already, where you can get play-by-play breakdowns of all those categories you mentioned (that way you don't have to do the hard work)? Here is a template....its geared for HS/NCAA hashes, but you can move them docs.google.com/open?id=0B3p5wkumv513eXBCM2lETTZfZU0F-all that noise of drawing by hand!!!! If you can make a template and print it out, you may as well use that same template and create the plays in the same manner. That PPT template looks like the ticket to me. Now I just need to get the scale right. I'm also looking to expand the field so that it's 40 yards long instead of 30. I'm sure I'll have more questions as I start to edit that field for the NFL dimensions. |
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