Team Season and Game Statistics

[RegionFBFan]

As the season is upon us, I was interested in how your schools/team handle stat recording and publishing. We currently are using Hudl for film, manually record stats on Saturday morning on a publisher stat sheet and publish on Maxpreps. It’s very thorough but takes 2-3 hrs and done by someone not on staff or in school.
 

Do you use a software on a computer at the game so they are live? Who is accountable for doing the stats? Asst coach, student, film crew, parent?

Like I said, I’m interested in improving efficiency and am curious on how others do it. Ideally, I’d like our team’s process to mirror college football stats when you look up online.

Thanks in advance for your ideas/thoughts.

[Daniel_Bragg]

Last basketball season, I started using a brand new service called "Press Row Hoops" to keep stats while calling basketball games. It was such a success that the creators have now made programs for baseball, volleyball, and now football. 

The service is pretty impressive to be built by only one person, but I think it's really worth checking out. 

[Trojan67]

I am the statistician at Triton. I started out using Hudl live stats. That feature had a lot of good, but had a lot of problems. Hudl refused to update this feature and made it difficult are forcing small programs who may not have the funding to buy their Assist package or go in manually to do stats on their own. 

 

I made the executive decision to go to other programs just to give media what they wanted on Friday nights and used one of the free programs. It did alright, but it wasn't something that I felt was best for efficiency. 

I finally landed on Statman. I used it for a couple of seasons and really liked the stats we got from the game. I was able to send reports to the press and then upload everything to Maxpreps. The issue is typing. I didn't have spotters feeding me info and when you only have between 20-35 seconds, you have to be on point. Thankfully, Triton live streams the games so I can go back and fix errors at half and the end, but I have been really trying to find a program that you hit the button like what Hudl live stats did. So this year we decided to go with TurboStats and see if this will be something for the future. 

[RegionFBFan]

Trojan67 - thanks for response. So I gather you do live stats at game, in press box with laptop loaded with a software ie Turbostats. Are you a member of the staff or a volunteer? Do you have the added responsibility of film and drone operation? Thanks.

[Trojan67]

22 hours ago, RegionFBFan said:

Trojan67 - thanks for response. So I gather you do live stats at game, in press box with laptop loaded with a software ie Turbostats. Are you a member of the staff or a volunteer? Do you have the added responsibility of film and drone operation? Thanks.

I was a volunteer for 9 years, took a year off, came back mid-season last year. I was responsible for all of the film, uploading, and sending the film off when I had more responsibilities. With our new head coach, we transitioned to QwikCuts getting away from Hudl because the cost of Hudl has just been increasing with less features especially in their basic package. During the games, yes, I do it all live. I give all the credit to Statman stats because they really do have a great platform, but coming from the standpoint that you have to use Excel and type everything in, you can easily get behind. 

I am a big supporter of our program and I have always went in with the mindset that I wanted our athletes and our program to be left in better shape than when I came in. My brother and I built an end zone camera tripod several years ago using our knowledge and we donated everything to the program. When I started doing stats, I was the same way. I am always thinking about what happens when I am not able to do this anymore and really pushed for a stats program that anyone could utilize without having any experience. 

On game days, I am doing live stats during the game. I am able to run the reports and get those sent off to the media so they have them by the end of the game. By doing this, as well, we could sit down afterwards and discuss things and start planning for the next week. With being a small program, I have also been a big proponent of making sure that the stats are done so when Saturday morning hits, that is one less thing to worry about. This year, I am hoping that we can continue that efficiency with Turbostats.