American football
Deep roster, playbook and scoreboard in one app
An American football team is fifty-odd people split across offense, defense and special teams, each with plays to learn. Squadra organises that without turning it into a folder of spreadsheets.
A roster that isn’t a spreadsheet
All twenty-one football positions are in the catalogue, from quarterback to long snapper, and everyone carries theirs, their number and their profile. Permissions run by category: each coach signs in and sees their own, not the whole club.
- Primary and secondary position, number and profile per player
- One person shows up once, even if they play and coach as well
- Call-ups by category or for the whole club, with confirmation
- Each role sees their own: the strength coach the load, the manager the game
- Join links never hand out management permissions
Fifty people, one call-up
You call up the whole category and each of them answers from their phone. With fifty-odd names on the roster, the gap between knowing who’s in on Saturday and not knowing is forty messages nobody counts. And whoever joins in January doesn’t have to read the whole group chat to find out when practice is.
- Anyone who can’t make it leaves a reason, and the staff decides if it’s excused
- Automatic reminder the day before for whoever hasn’t answered
- Sessions go in as a series, not one by one
- Changing the time or the field re-notifies everyone, with nothing to write
- Everyone subscribes to the calendar and sees only their own
The playbook, drawn and seen
Plays are drawn on a real football field, yard lines and end zones included, animated across frames, and shared with the category you assign them to. Whoever opens it on the bus watches it move, instead of reading a still diagram.
- Touch board: place, drag, draw and undo
- Frames that play back so you see the development
- Attach the scheme as an image, or the PDF you already had
- Each play reaches the category you choose, tagged with the positions it is for
- You can see how many people have viewed it, so you know it landed
Game day
The scoreboard logs what actually happens in a football game, with its quarter clock, and what supporters see is just the result. Family who couldn’t travel follow the game from the sofa, and that doesn’t open the line-up or anybody’s stats.
- Touchdown 6, extra point 1, two-point conversion 2, field goal 3 and safety 2
- Tackles, receptions, interceptions and sacks, if you want the fine detail
- Quarter clock, with pause, period change and overtime
- The score updates live on the phone of anyone following
- Line-ups and per-player stats stay inside the club
The report comes from the call-up, the clock from the server
The game is created from the call-up and the line-up arrives filled in with whoever confirmed, each with their number and position. The clock is counted by the database, so reloading the page doesn’t lose a second.
- Logging with no signal queues up and lands when the signal comes back
- Two people can log at once from the sideline, and neither overwrites the other
- Starting or stopping the clock twice in a row doesn’t throw the minute off
- Each player’s points feed the club’s scorers table
- A finished game locks, and correcting it means reopening it on purpose
A linebacker doesn’t load like a kicker
Routines are assigned to the team, the category or one person, and tests are compared against the benchmark for their spot. In a sport where a 130-kilo tackle and a cornerback share a locker room, the club average says nothing.
- Routines with sets, RPE, tempo and percentage of max
- Weights worked out from the one-rep max, rounded to the 2.5 plate
- Targets per position, not one number for the whole roster
- A position’s comparison isn’t shown when the group is small enough to identify someone
And who sees what is decided in the database
Each coach signs into their own category. Supporters see the score and the next fixtures. The president runs the club without opening anyone’s medical record or training plan. It isn’t a screen hiding buttons: the query simply doesn’t return that data.
- Permissions are granted per person, category and role, not in bulk
- Twenty-one capabilities, handed out and taken back one at a time
- Nobody can grant themselves something they haven’t been given
- The filter sits in the database, not on the screen: there’s no way round it
When it opens, set your team up here
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