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The coach's guide
You don't have to read this front to back. Before your first Friday you need a team and a playbook, and on game night you need one screen. That's the first three guides. The rest you can pick up as the season goes.
New this week?
Do the first three guides in order and you'll be ready to keep a game. Plan on about forty minutes, and most of that is typing in your roster. If the roster is already in a spreadsheet, that part takes a few seconds.
Your first week
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01
Make or upload a team
Create the team, bring your roster in from a spreadsheet, and build the playbook: formations, plays, and the play types the rest of the app runs on.
About 20 minutes · do this first -
02
Make a game
Add an opponent, set the kickoff, mark the game live, and know what changes once you mark it final.
About 5 minutes -
03
Log every kind of play
Runs, passes, punts, kickoffs, returns, touchdowns, penalties and bad snaps. This is the screen you'll live on Friday night.
About 15 minutes · the important one
The rest of the app
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04
Coaches, fans and settings
Who sees what, how the invite code works, promoting a parent to coach, and every switch in Team Settings.
About 10 minutes -
05
Coach's Read
What's working tonight, what's gone cold, and what a scout in the other press box can already see about you.
About 8 minutes -
06
The Booth
A shared notepad for your staff during the game, and the halftime card the app builds out of it.
About 8 minutes
Watch it done
Six short clips, one per job. Each one plays on its own guide page, with no sound.
Open tonight's game 11s
Log a play 25s
Punts and kickoffs 19s
Coach's Read 19s
The Booth 13s
Stats and export 12s
Friday night, in one page
If you only read one thing, read this. It's game night start to finish.
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Open the game. It's the card at the top of the home screen. The app puts the live game there, or the next one on your schedule.
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Tap Mark live from the menu in the top right when the game starts, so the app knows it's on.
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Tap ADD PLAY after every snap. Formation, play, direction, who had it, and where the ball ended up. A few taps.
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Answer the prompt when one appears. After a touchdown the app asks for the points and the try; after a fourth down that came up short it offers to end the drive. One tap handles it.
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Tap Mark final when it's over. The postgame report is in the same menu, and it's ready right away.
No signal in your stadium? None of this waits on the server. Plays save to the phone the moment you tap Save and sync when the phone finds a bar. If two coaches enter plays on two devices with no signal, the app sorts out the play numbering when they reconnect. See two coaches, one game.
Still stuck
Every guide here matches the current version of the app. If a screen doesn't look like the picture, you may be a version behind, so check the App Store for an update. If it still doesn't match, tell us. The address is on the Support page, and a screenshot helps more than anything else you can send.