Football Software

[CoachSteve 0]

All,

I am pretty new to the board so I hope I am not rehashing an old topic - sorry if I am....

I'm curious if anyone has any reccommendations on software to help out in next year's football season. What I want in a software is a decent playbook builder, roster, player evals, substitution packages, practice planning, and maybe one or two other things (e.g., player 40 times taken over several points in the season). I also don't want to pay an arm and a leg for it. I have seen some playbook software on line and I can do the rest in other packages (e.g., Excel). What I want is an integrated package. I doubt there is anything out there but I wanted to check before I go fire up my computer and spending a few hundred hours developing it myself during the offseason.

Thanks.

[CoachSteve 0]

Let me alter the question a bit:

Does anyone here use their computer to aid in planning their program? If so, how and what tools do you use. For me, I use MS Visio for drawing up plays and Word and Excel for other things. While this works okay, I have some other ideas. What do other coaches use? What works well and what doesn't?

[mlbryant 0]

I use visio too fro drawing up the playbook. I use MS PowerPoint or its OpenOffice equivalent, Impress, to create my Offensive Coach Cheat Sheet and Defensiv Coach Cheat Sheet for each week's game.