We have a new version of our Apple iTunes App available to download.   We have made a few tiny tweaks and a name change to Statzpack Soccer.

This is NOT an update to the current Statzpack app.  It is a NEW app, with the exact same functions as the past one. 

To download it follow this link and it will open iTunes, http://itunes.com/apps/statzpack-soccer 

For a smooth transition, make sure if when you switch from the previous App to this one do the following:

1. Login and logout of your current App first.

2. Delete the current App.

3. Install the Statzpack Soccer App and log in as usual.

Guidelines to using Statzpack      

1. First off, if you dislike reading and prefer viewing there are tutorial videos available on each of stages are on Youtube.  Watch a couple and hear our very own Jenny, the voice of Statzpack.
2. SIGN UP.  First step is to sign-up to Statzpack as a Free Trial user here:  http://www.statzpack.com/soccer_web/soccer/amember/signup.php 
3. ORGANISATION NAME.  As you sign up when you enter your Organisation Name, use the name of your club, for example ‘Beach FC’ or  ‘Jersey United’.  Do not use for example ‘Beach FC U16 Boys’.  You can add team details later on.
4. SETTING UP:  After you log into Statzpack, the first thing to do is go to Team Management and add your team and player details. 
   Team Level:  Teams level names are based on their level or age, for example ‘U18 Colts’.  The Team Levels are based on gender, so there is no need to add the sex of the team in the name of the Team Level, so for example if your Team Level is a girls team, there is no need to add this, for example do not add ‘U18 Colts Girls’.  The system will note that this is a female team throughout and name it accordingly.   Nor should they be named based on the year  – say 2012, or a campaign.
   Adding a Campaign:  A Campaign refers to a string of related games, for example ‘Spring Season’, ‘North County League Fall 2012’ or ‘Invitational Tournament’. 
   Adding Players:  This is where you add your players.  When adding your players they must be assigned to a single team.  You can add one at a time, or import a list in .csv file format.
   If you get fed up with this process, email us at players@statzpack.com, attaching the player details in any format.
   Adding a Game:   You cannot add a game on the website without adding the previous data.  At this stage simply follow the drop down options, adding the game date, time, opposition name and your team selection.
   What stats to record?  You can record any action/stat you want, and you can make your own set of action, into a Custom Set.  For your first game stick with our ‘Default’ set.
    
   You can edit this game data before a game on the website and the app.   GETTING THE APP.  Depending on what device (iPad etc) you choose to use, the Statzpack app is free to download.

	APPLE:  In iTunes, or the App store simply search for Statzpack3, find the app and Install. Follow this link to get to iTunes:  Statzpack App Apple
	ANDROID:  On your Android device, again to the Android Market and search for Statzpack, click the ‘Install’ button.   You can find the app here also:  Statzpack App Android
	PC/MAC:  Go to the Statzpack homepage and you will see an icon to download the App. Or go here to get the Statzpack App PC/MAC.

USING THE APP 

A couple of things to note here.

For security purposes, before you use the App in any way you will have to log into to website first.

Plus, for the first login attempt you have to have a network connection.  The App will verify if you are a valid user, go to the server and sync any new games.   

As often you will not have wifi connection at a soccer game, open the app on your phone or tablet prior to the game with a good network before – perhaps even just after you have added the game on the website.  Check this overview of how this all works.  Once you are logged you will go to the Menu Screen.  From here you can see games you have added to record, any past match history.  You can review and edit the details of the games, for example player line-ups.

When you are tracking stats at the game if you press the score/clock bar at the top of the screen, you will see in flight stats.  If you make a mistake, you can undo the last action.  Set up a test out a couple test games. Get the feel for the app.  You can delete them afterwards.  If you ever need help, contact us at support@statzpack.com.

THE ANALYSIS 

Once you have recorded your game stats, the data will sync up the server where you will get ready made analysis and reports.   All this data can also be exported from the website to an excel spread sheet, using the Matrix Analysis function, under Analysis.  The GameShare page is an automatically produced webpage that can be shared with your players, parents, fans etc.   Check out more details on this feature here.

You can also give your players (or parents) access to see their own stats. Yes, players can get a secure access to see their data. Check out how to give them access and what they can see here.

IF YOU EVER NEED HELP?

At any time, if you need any help you can chat live on the website. If the icon is blue, we are available.

Or email us at support@statzpack.com

Watch at our videos:  Tutorial videos on Youtube

If you need it we can arrange a suitable time to call you phone or by skype too. 

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Download a PDF version – Guidelines to using Statzpack

And we have a winner!

Well done and thank you to DJ Bevino, Head Women’s Soccer Coach at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, who emailed us a couple of pictures of his team using Statzpack on their iPad. Styluses on their way to DJ, and a special consignment of English candy. Go FIT Soccer !!!!!

Learn how to evaulate player performance.  Get qualified with some help from Statzpack.  

Are you a coach who needs to evaulate player performance?   We are proud to announce a link up with the League Managers Association School of Football Management.  As part of their learning services portfolio the LMA have designed a unique educational product for soccer coaches, put together by renowned soccer educator Robin Russell of Sports Path.  The LMA School of Football Management Course 2: ‘Evaluating Performance’  is a premier learning program for soccer coaches who want to learn with some of the leading English soccer coaches. 

Since the launch of this course in January 2012 over 150 coaches have enrolled including over 40 Premier League and Football League Managers. In addition the Scottish FA Football Development Department has purchased places for all members of its staff for this course.  This is a course attracting coaches from across the globe.  

We can offer a special discounted price for this course to all customers of just $325. (UK £199, Euro Zone €240)
- plus if you sign up you will get a Statzpack annual subscription for free. Sign up NOW.

Through 30 Modules with over 300 Video Interview clips from 15 respected experts including LMA Managers, International Managers, Directors of Coaching Directors of European Youth Academies and respected Performance Analysts from leading UEFA Champions League Clubs.   This fully online and interactive course allows the coach to plot their own study timetable. If you use video, apps like Statzpack or even plain old paper and pen – then this course will enhance your skill base.   It is truly one of a kind.  There is no other course like this for soccer coaches to be found.

Who are the LMA?  

The League Managers Association (LMA) is the organisation which collectively represents all Premiership and Football League managers in English football. So its’ membership includes Sir Alex, Wenger and Hodgson. Good company.  It was set up in 1992 during the period when football in England was undergoing major changes, including the split of the Premiership from the rest of the football league, and the introduction of satellite television coverage of football by Sky Television.

The LMA collects and represents the opinions and interests of the managers of all 92 clubs in the above leagues. The LMA lobbies with the expertise of their members on various matters to football’s governing organisations. Representatives of the LMA now sit on various Football Association panels charged with helping to run the game in England.

WHAT ARE THE EXPECTED COURSE OUTCOMES?

 On completion of the course learners will be have improved their knowledge and understanding with regard to the following aspects of Performance Evaluation:

 WHAT to evaluate in match performance, HOW to evaluate match performance and HOW to USE Data and Information

 WHAT to evaluate in match performance

• Why use Evaluation? Coaches have plans for aspects such as games, training, talent identification and scouting. Are these based on evaluation of match performance?
• Establishing Objectives for your team
• How to decide how you want your team to play to meet these objectives
• How to develop Key Performance Indicators which reflect this style of play
• How to identify  Attacking and Defending Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)  for open play and for set plays which reflects your preferred style of play

  HOW to evaluate match performance

• Techniques  to evaluate  team performance
• Developing Individual Job Description for each position
• Techniques to evaluate the individual  performance and measure progress
• How to evaluate young players –sharing good practice and accepted bench marks
• Involving players in Evaluation

What coaches say about Course 2

John Pascarella, Coach, Sporting Kansas City, MLS, USA

“The course information is outstanding. It gives coaches some ideas on how to take your own style of play and then create KPI’s that apply to that given style. The benchmarks/statistics give us an idea of what to shoot for in relation to high level teams.

It has created some thought and ideas about what we want to do here in KC with the help of our IT/analysis people and the first step is generating some league-wide statistics to use as our benchmarks”

Steve Darby,former National Coach FA of Thailand

“Excellent material, valuable and relevant”

Gordon Hill,Director of Coaching,United FC, McKinney, Texas, USA and former player for Manchester United FC and England

“I would just like to say thank you, I thought the course was very informative and helped me in understanding more about how important Performance Analysis is. and what roles it plays in the modern game. I liked the speakers and got a feel of who played the game and who did not, but that did not matter as they all contributed to making it worth while, I got a lot out of it and found that giving objective feedback to a player who is trying to improve his performance feels good. and will continue to develop.”

Paul Brush, former Assistant Manager at Southend FC and Lincoln City FC

I had not had much access to “Prozone stats” so it was somewhat overpowering at first to see the amount of analysis readily available from the links.I had not known how easily accessible detailed information was.

The course has enabled me to digest new detailed information in layers and comfortably except relevant useful input from people who are not professional football managers and coaches. It has changed some of my thinking and made me look differently at certain match situations -sometimes moving back to the originality of a move /goal and sometimes to the consequences of incompleteness.

I am very glad to have completed this course. To me I see now that evaluating performance with clear relevant reliable statistical evidence will help me prioritize my planning and training so to enable my team and the individuals involved -including myself- to improve and exceed our agreed set targets

Jean Claude, Head Coach, North East Soccer Academy, Australia

“Half way through the 2nd coarse. It really is Excellent”

A sneak preview of our  upcoming Statzpack app, version 3.

We have updated the function to add a game on the app.  The new factility allows you too add players by name, and also add completely new players, opposition and choose your action set. Just like adding a game on the website, but on the app.

Watch a quick video of the new function here.  Adding a game on the Statzpack app

The ASL and Statzpack announced a partnership for the league to incorporate Statzpack into their program in 2012. The league managed out of Virginia provides top level clubs in the East coast region a high quality league to showcase both boys and girls supporting collegiate recruitment, incorporating clubs in 7 states including New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania.

‘We are delighted to start working with Statzpack. Their product will make our game reporting so much easier, and with our mission to promote as many of our players to the college scene, its’ ability to support the job of tracking and recording player performance is unrivalled’.

Kevin added ‘It is rare to find a reporting system that is so easy to use, but our clubs will be able to gather performance specific data to support our player development mission, but also help the teams with the routine administration tasks they have to fulfil’.

Mark Roberts, founder of Statzpack senses this will be the first of many relationships with youth soccer leagues in the US. ‘During the NSCAA convention we had a lot of positive dialogue with both youth and adult soccer leagues. Where we have long heard that there is an ‘App for that’ the exciting development announced by Statzpack is that you are no longer required to be the owner of an iPhone or iPad to track your soccer stats.  ‘In addition to the Apple devices, you can now use our product working on over 400 Android smartphones or tablets, for example Samsung, HTC or Toshiba, but better than that you can track your stats at the game using a regular windows PC or a MAC. It means that our system is not just affordable, but also very accessible and still easy to use’. Mark added. This announcement is likely to be one of many in the near future as the company continues to establish further links to leagues and association in the US.  Visit the Atlantic Soccer League http://www.aslsoccer.net

You can win one of our world famous styluses, by completing this simple task.

Send in a picture of you and your team using statzpack to Styluscomp@statzpack.com  Simple.

A quick look shows how much more of the screen you can see when using a stylus.

Over the past year or so there has been an increase in the availability of stylus’s for smart-phones. So what about a stylus for the iPhone?  Apple don’t sell them directly, but you can get your hands on them online for around $10-15 and there are various types and quality.

So with the help of our sports studies intern Aileen we carried out some research to find out ‘would the use of the stylus improve the Statzpack experience?’  The answer was.. YES!  In general when using a stylus approximately 25% more of the screen is visible.  The central advantage is the use of a stylus increases greater visibility of the screen and hence improves recording accuracy and speed.

We then tested 5 different types of stylus and we concluded that the best stylus to use with Statzpack was a basic soft touch stylus.  Not only can you see more of the screen it was the best stylus type for the action selection in our App.

Taken from the following article:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/idUS161951+13-Feb-2012+BW20120213

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Statzpack, an innovative measurement software that allows coaches and  players analyze and improve their soccer performance, recently helped a prestigious private school  in Washington, D. C. win its first ISLAA championship in 18 years.

The girls varsity team at Sidwell Friends, a Quaker school located in Bethesda, Md., and Washington, D.C., ended the season with a 7-0-0 record and an overall record of 13-1-1, for a season-high ranking of 28 in the United States. Coach Martin Dell and members of the team recorded every game using Statzpack and found the program helped improve their performance.

“We were very excited to use Statzpack to enhance the girls’ Varsity program and all the games were recorded by one of the two freshmen on the team,” Dell said. “I reviewed the stats at the half-time interval with my assistant coach and then also with the girls to give brief oversight of positives and negatives of the first half and how we could improve in the second half.”

Dell used the Statzpack app on an iPad, but he also tried the new version for home computers and the Android app during the season. He said the app helped him collect data that showed strengths and weaknesses he might have overlooked.

“The data also helped me work with specific development of the girls individually and as a team. I have a very quick forward who was shooting many times a game but her on target percentage was relatively low,” he said. “After sharing the data and my thoughts with the player and the team, we worked on her individual technique and composure and movement in front of goal as well as the team’s penetration in the final third to allow her to be in better scoring positions.”

Off the field, Martin was also able to share the data with players, parents and even local news media automatically with game summary reports sent via email. The data was also used for year-end reports for the school’s athletic director and league meetings.

Statzpack founder Mark Roberts said he was proud of the results.

“Coaches have a lot to think about during a game: their players, the other team, strategy and even the referees,” he said. “Statzpack helps a great coach like Martin Dell focus by making sure he doesn’t lose track of important details. It’s like having an assistant coach with perfect recall. And the team’s record shows the results.” 

We are pleased to announce that along side our Android version of our app, we have also released a version that works on both Windows PCs and Apple MACs.  This edition of the App sits on a platform called Adobe Air and has the exact same functionality as the Android and iOS (iPad/iPhone) Apps.  Whilst PCs are not as mobile as a tablet, like an iPad, they do make our service very accessible and in the right environment work just as well, if not better. 

As well as a much improved ‘add a game’ function, we have brushed up our UI (User Interface) and generally improved the overall user experience.

You can download any of our Apps for free by going to our homepage and clicking on the icon.