Tracking a set of custom stats (or as we refer to them custom actions) allows you to build your own tailored set of stats for your players.  Statzpack lets you track a regular set of soccer stats – like goals, free-kicks, corners etc; but you can go further than this and record more performance analysis data.  When you add a game on the website you can opt to create your own set of custom actions.  We have built in a set of Default actions, but if you don’t want to track these then that’s no problem.  As you add a game just below the soccer field where you select your line-up you will see an option to create a custom set of stats. 

You can also make an action set that combines a mixture of default stats and your custom actions – say for example Goal/Attempt on Goal/Free-kick & Custom #1/Custom 2.  Make sure when add a set that you include Goal if you want to keep a score, or Substitute if you need to field different players.

You choose the soccer stats coach

 If you opt to add a new set of actions select the ‘Create New Set’ button. We’ve added a new set called Evaluation.   When you add a new set, you also be able to see every other custom stat statzpack users have added (Pre Defined Custom Actions) .

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What’s the difference between a direct and indirect free kick? How many strikers are in a 4-4-2 formation? And what’s this “injury time” business all about? Before you start tracking stats on your iPad.. .. ..

Against the run of play: When one team scores after launching a counterattack soon after it regains possession of the ball, that team is said to have scored “against the run of play.”

Attacking third: The third of the field where one team is trying to score on the opposing team’s goal.

Bicycle kick: A shot on goal taken by a player who has his back to the net and kicks the ball while both of his feet are in the air.

Booking: A term used to indicate when the referee has cautioned a player with a yellow or red card. A player is said to have been “booked.” Also known as a caution.

Cap: A recognition earned by a player whenever he plays in an international game for his country. A player becomes “capped” each time he plays for his country.

Caught in possession: A player who doesn’t move forward with the ball or passes to a teammate after receiving the ball, and who is then tackled by an opponent is said to have been “caught in possession.”

Caught square: When a through ball has beaten two or more opposing defenders because they were positioned square to one another (in a straight line across the field parallel to the goal-line) they are said to have been “caught square.”

Chip pass: A pass lofted into the air from one player to a teammate. Used primarily to elude a defender by kicking the ball over his head.

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From time to time when we talk to new customers and partners, we are often asked ‘so who uses yur product?’ or ‘where are your customers at?’.   When we were asked this last week by a new user in the mid west of the USA we decided to actually take a few minutes to list it out.  Well we all know that soccer is the truly global game, and the internet has no bounds so it really be no surprise (but it was..) to see that we have customers in the following countries: USA, UK, Ireland, Canada, Turkey, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, India, Italy, South Africa, Malta, Cyprus, New Zealand, Malta, Australia and Malaysia.  

Global Soccer App

We have users who are high school teachers, semi-pro coaches, professional analysts, parents, even international scouts using our product.  What amazes us and equally motivates us a company is the enthusiasm of the soccer coach – wherever they are, or whatever age group or level they are coaching and we try to plough that right back into our products.

If you’re a Statzpack user you can help spread the word and by making referrals you can get extra free time added to your subscription, check it out here.   Hello world. Greetings Statzpackers

Just to let you know that we have made some refinements to the Matrix Report function.  We improved the capability to define what actions you want to list and the export function to Excel lays out the data in two distinct sheets. To take a look, log into the website and select the Analysis Tab, and then Matrix Report.  Once again these changes were guided by feedback from our users and if you have any ideas let us know.  For example we are currently looking at the capability to allow coaches to complete player/team evaluations on the website, is this something that as a coach you desire? If it is – tell us.

Here is a sample of the look excel output.

In the beginning, there were no jersey numbers.  Simple.  In today’s game from the U10 youth level (or even below) to the FIFA World Cup that would seem extraordinary.  Numbering allows for better game and player management, quick identification and coach communication. Its part of the modern game.  

Though there was some use of numbering in the early 1900s, it was the English 1933 FA Cup final which is marked the real debut  of the use of shirt numbers.  Everton were numbered 1-11, and Manchester City were given the numbers 12-22.  In a strange twist, City decided to give goalkeeper number 22, and assigned the numbers in descending order.  In 1939 numbers on the back of players’ shirts became mandatory in the English Football League although many teams had used them before.

The move to a fixed number being assigned to each player in a squad was initiated for the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, where each man in a country’s 22-man squad wore a specific number for the duration of the tournament.  Thus creating the relationship between a player and a roster number.  Previous to this the jersey number had a specific relation to the position on the pitch – the obvious being the Goalkeeper was always assigned the No 1.

Though there are differing versions of number assignment, the traditional use of the numbers in a 11 a side team (on a 5-3-2 formation and we are talking in the 1960s) went something like this:

1 = Goalkeeper
2 = Right Fullback
3 = Left Fullback
4 = Centre Half/Back
5 = Centre Half/Back
6 = Centre Half/Back
7 = Right Wing/Midfield
8 = Centre Midfield.
9 = Centre Forward
10 = Centre Forward
11 = Left Wing/Midfield

In the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cups Argentina decided to allocate jersey numbers on an alphabetical basis to their players. This resulted in the great playmaker Osvaldo Ardiles donning the No 1 jersey, Maradonna ended up with No 10.   Superstition

In 1993, England’s Football Association switched to persistent squad numbers, abandoning the mandatory use of 1–11 for the starting line-up.  It became standard in the FA Premier League in the 1993-94 season, with names printed above the numbers. Most European top leagues adopted the system over the next five years and today few soccer teams from 10 year old up don’t have assigned jersey numbers to players.