Improve Your Self-Scout, Game Plan, and In-Game Decision Making from One Platform

Coaches leveraging technology to gain a competitive advantage is nothing new in the sport of football. Technology has played a pivotal role in game preparations since Paul Brown first turned on a video camera to scout opponents and improve his own team’s practice habits. It seems absurd now, but there was a time when the “eye in the sky” was railed against by traditionalists. Now, it’s a default setting for any program, and fans now even consume All-22 film as entertainment.

If you’ve watched any game on television the past few years, you’re aware of the current wave of innovation – analytics. And like the use of film study to aid in practice and game planning, analytics has its early adopters, its curious followers, and its “that’s not how we do things around here” crowd.

But analytics is not some alien or arcane discipline. The NFL began keeping official statistics in 1932. So since the year toilet brushes were invented, coaches have been checking performance expectations against the numbers. And analytics at the core are merely advanced statistics.

We can now thrust these numbers through modern computing power to transform past performance into probabilities of future results in microseconds. This predilection for prediction is Modern Football.

Early predictive technology was either inaccurate too often, too expensive for budgets outside top corporations or government agencies, or too complex for most of us to learn. But current predictive analytics is not a Magic 8 ball or a Rubik’s cube. It is accurate, affordable, and simple to use.

Lake Travis Self-Scout and Game Plan Tool

Self-scouting is an undervalued and underperformed function of a post-game review. It tells us a lot about our team and how an opponent views us. It also allows us to put together better practice plans, game plans, and in some states, game-day decision making.

In Austin, Texas, the six-time state champion Lake Travis Cavaliers use state-of-the-art computing power to improve their self-scout and game planning. On the offensive line, the data keeps the run game moving forward and blitzes picked up all season long. OL coach AJ Antonescu recently joined the podcast to discuss how Lake Travis prioritizes these activities throughout the season.