Why uses series???

Im not sure I understand your question. "series" is nothing more than a group of plays that compliment each other because they put a specific defender or several defenders in conflict.

for example, the wing-t buck series involves the fb trap thru the midline, the buck sweep by the half back attacking one flank and the qb boot or waggle threatening the other flank.

you can still call the plays with traditional back and hole numbering but within the series...ie you might number the entire series 100...so you would have 130 trap, 126 sweep and 119 waggle.....or however you want to number your backs...make sense?

series football is great because when the defense is taking away one play within a series you can usually trouble shoot and figure out what else within that series or another will work. For example, if the de is penetrating and causing a pile you might want to trap him with 124 power instead of 126 sweep.

So you can have a logical approach to game planning and play calling that can be deductive in theory and approach. You don't want to just call a game like you would play Madden 08. Everything should have a reason or every play within a series should have a compliment. One of the best is Sweep, trap, waggle.

We are a wing T team and we call plays by three numbers. The first number is the formation, the second number is the series, and the third number is the hole. We will add a tags for blocking assignments, formations or special plays.

I think three digit play calling makes sense for wing t, but Id use first digit as series, second digit as ball carrier and third as the hole. name the formations with something other than a number, just what I think makes it simpler for the kids. I have considered it for the dw but in all honesty we dont need very many series so its not necessary.

We use the back/hole number system to designate the "who" and the "where." We then use play names to help with what series everything falls into, so we cover both our bases.

For example, if we call "24," it simply means "2 back is the ballcarrier through the 4 hole" (oooo....ORIGINAL! )

Then, our series are all named for the base play in that series. So, we may have a Belly Series that looks like this:

BELLY
BELLY KEEPER
BELLY COUNTER
BELLY TRAP

...or a series based on the Lead play:

LEAD
LEAD DRAW
LEAD COUNTER
LEAD REVERSE
LEAD TRAP

So, the name of the play helps tell the backs what the series is. The modifier not only defines the additional or complimentary backfield action, but it also keeps the blocking schemes modular (in other words, Belly TRAP is the same for the OL as Lead TRAP, and Belly COUNTER is blocked the same as Lead COUNTER, etc.)

It's good stuff.

We used to use numbers but for the past 2 years we've gone to words. We also have them on our wrist coaches. Instead of 38 or 39 sweep we say sweep right or sweep left. We don't have to call motion because we CAN'T run a sweep without our Fly Motion. Our goal was to make things clear and also cut down on the verbage. We can, and do, add tag words as needed but this works well for us.

I feel that series football is the way to go, and numbering to indicate backfield action is great. I like to keep words to a minimum, and save that for formations and tags. If you can signal in formations to your receivers, then your QB only has to deal with motion, play, snap count and you can keep verbage to a minimum in the huddle...

For example:

Instead of "Deuce Lt Zip, Fake Zone Left, Boot Rt, China Route" we can call two numbers, the first indicates the run fake, the second is protection and route combo (w/tags)...

We'd say "Deuce Lt Zip 53-45 " where we're faking IZ lt (53), and running 40 (4=half-slide rt, 5=china route combo)

I played for a Wing T program in high school that never used the word buck or belly. It was all series numbers and hole numbers. And formations too. Right 55 was belly left.