Football Stat sheet

[joe_schmoe]

The one's Ace just posted are the ones I had downloaded if anyone else was going to request them.

I like the one I use, but I need to revamp it and make a nice copy. When (IF) I do I'll post it somewhere.

 

[pressboxer]

I once asked a desker to help me make a custom stat sheet in Quark. Just .5 pt rules in a neat grid and categories clearly labeled. Once we got it perfect, I copied it like crazy. Usually the best system is your own.

I came up with my own system nearly 20 years ago and have taken the Quark file with me everywhere I've been since.

One thing I do is cutomize a header for the play-by-play plage with Visiting Team Nickname (record) at Home Team Mascot (record). I also put the date, name of the stadium and city on another line. It really stands out in 20-point bold Helvetica.

 

[Tom Petty]

BrianGriffin,
I use a similiar method, only with one pen. I use one of those multi-color pens, like the kinds Bic makes (red, blue, black, green), and a stenographer's notebook.
I have columns for ball position, down and distance, play and result.
I also add up the first half stats at halftime.
Unlike others on here, I can't use a computer program or even a big notebook because I'm on the sidelines taking photos and marking down plays. Ah, the joys of a small-town paper.

I simply cannot find the multi-colored pens any more. Who carries those these days?

dorks, and usually in their shirt pockets.

 

[BrianGriffin]

BrianGriffin,
I use a similiar method, only with one pen. I use one of those multi-color pens, like the kinds Bic makes (red, blue, black, green), and a stenographer's notebook.
I have columns for ball position, down and distance, play and result.
I also add up the first half stats at halftime.
Unlike others on here, I can't use a computer program or even a big notebook because I'm on the sidelines taking photos and marking down plays. Ah, the joys of a small-town paper.

I simply cannot find the multi-colored pens any more. Who carries those these days?

dorks, and usually in their shirt pockets.

A saw a pharmacist with one in his shirt pocket today, inside the pocket protector, of course. I thought about grabbing it and running off. But I didn't have a pocket or a pocket protector to store it in so I left it alone.

 

[Barsuk]

A good stat sheet one of my colleagues designed, and I retrofitted to Quark ...

Use 2 per game -- one for each team.

http://www.indianassa.org/files/FBstatslegal.pdf (prints on 8.5 x 14 legal-sized paper)
http://www.indianassa.org/files/FBstatsletter.pdf (the same thing scaled down for 8.5 x 11 paper)

That's solid. I might give it a try this year.

 

[crimsonace]

My experience with multi-colored pens is that they tend to run out quickly.

I just started buying 5-packs of pens instead.

 

[BrianGriffin]

My experience with multi-colored pens is that they tend to run out quickly.

I just started buying 5-packs of pens instead.

But they are chick magnets. Who cares if you run out of green ink.

 

[Barsuk]

Just bought a pack of three at Staples today. Football season can't get here fast enough. :D

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Like most of you, I have to keep stats during high school football games. But after 3 years of using graph paper, I'm looking for a sheet to keep track of rushing, passing and receiving.

I've Googled it and most of what I find is for fantasy football.

Doed anybody know where I can download a sheet for stats?

Thanks.

My shop has an unusual, but very effective way of tracking stats.

At the beginning of each season we get a pile of Account Book Journals like these: (http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/177212/Account-Book-Journal-11-x-7/)
We use them for running play-by-play and running team stats.
The pages are broken up by columns and each column is used for a different category as follows (in order as the columns appear left-to-right:

Ball position (If it's on Penn State's 20 you might write P20), fumbles/lost, Play description, first downs, Rushing attempts/yards, penalties, pass completions/attempts/yards/interceptions, and punts. That's eight categories and eight columns. If you can't visualize one of these pages, I'll tell you the play description column is the widest column on the page. The column for fumbles is extremely narrow, you don't need much.

You need two different color pens and each team gets a color. So the home team's plays may be in black ink, the visiting team in red ink. Since the specific stats are in columns, it's easy to keep a running total. If a team runs for three yards on the game's first play, then doesn't run again for 10 plays, all you have to do is look up the rushing yards column and find the last running play in that team's ink color. And you can keep a running total. If the first play is for 3 yards, then the second play is for 4, after the second run in the rush column you write "2-7."

At halftime, I usually pull out a reporter's pad, go down the play by play (In a 48-minute prep game, a quarter usually fills up about a page of the journal) and put together the individual stats. This takes 5 minutes tops. Often, I find a discrepancy between my individual stats and team stats, but usually, another 2-3 minutes of checking finds the mistake (I failed to record a rushing play in the running rush total in the ledger, for example).

Usually, when I go back to the office, I quickly add up the second half individual stats and add them to the first half, then again proof them against the team totals in the ledger. Another five minutes, tops.

The great thing about it is there are several ways to proof your stats as you go.

Something like this?

 

[sasser]

Have one I made maybe 10 years ago that all of our guys use.
It's progressive by carry, catch, etc and has grids for rushing yards, paassing yards, receiving yards, fisrt downs, fumbles/lost and penalties.
It's on 8 1/2x11 card stock with grids on both sides. Once possession changes, just flip it over.
Easy to keep and doesn't take up a lot of working space.
If you are interested, pm me or post where I can mail you a couple.
When we get low, I do a two-sided copy and put them on my desk.

 

[rwendt]

I realize this thread is 2yrs old but if anyone has some good sheets for rushing, passing, receiving, I'd be very appreciative

 

[Stitch]

crimsonace posted these one of the last times this came up. Similar to the ones I use, but mine are more horizontal.

Two versions:

Legal size:
http://www.indianassa.org/files/FBstatslegal.pdf

Letter size:
http://www.indianassa.org/files/FBstatsletter.pdf

 

[rwendt]

Thanks Stitch. The only problem I have with those two is I'm not sure there is enough room to write in the names AND I was kinda hoping for something a little bigger.

I kind of like this one
http://www.psal.org/psalsports/Football/psal_footscore.htm

But it's kind of small.

 

[Stitch]

Thanks Stitch. The only problem I have with those two is I'm not sure there is enough room to write in the names AND I was kinda hoping for something a little bigger.

I kind of like this one
http://www.psal.org/psalsports/Football/psal_footscore.htm

But it's kind of small.

You don't need to write in names. Just use the players' numbers.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Thanks Stitch. The only problem I have with those two is I'm not sure there is enough room to write in the names AND I was kinda hoping for something a little bigger.

I kind of like this one
http://www.psal.org/psalsports/Football/psal_footscore.htm

But it's kind of small.

This one looks like it takes up more than one page.

The thing I like about mine (which is similar to the ones linked, except mine is more horizontal legal sized) is that it can all fit on one piece of paper.

Put one team on each side. Put legal pad on a clipboard for PxP, stat sheet underneath the clipboard and very easy to walk the sideline with that set up.

 

[rwendt]

Thanks Stitch. The only problem I have with those two is I'm not sure there is enough room to write in the names AND I was kinda hoping for something a little bigger.

I kind of like this one
http://www.psal.org/psalsports/Football/psal_footscore.htm

But it's kind of small.

This one looks like it takes up more than one page.

The thing I like about mine (which is similar to the ones linked, except mine is more horizontal legal sized) is that it can all fit on one piece of paper.

Put one team on each side. Put legal pad on a clipboard for PxP, stat sheet underneath the clipboard and very easy to walk the sideline with that set up.

I don't suppose you'd be willing to send my yours?

 

[apeman33]

I have a sheet I made on Quark for 11x14 paper. It's become that big because of high schools and jucos that started thinking they need to pass 35 times a game. In fact, I've still run out of places to put passing in a couple of juco games because even at that size, I could only put 63 passes on it.

 

[spud]

A good stat sheet one of my colleagues designed, and I retrofitted to Quark ...

Use 2 per game -- one for each team.

http://www.indianassa.org/files/FBstatslegal.pdf (prints on 8.5 x 14 legal-sized paper)
http://www.indianassa.org/files/FBstatsletter.pdf (the same thing scaled down for 8.5 x 11 paper)

I've been using this one for a couple years. For the most part, it's great, but I have a couple gripes with it. For one, there's no real easy way to keep track of QB stats. On the legal size, the passing running total is too small, so I'll keep it on a separate sheet of paper, along with penalties/yards and first downs. Not too big a deal, but if it had passing totals laid out the same way the rushing and receiving ones are, it'd be perfect.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Thanks Stitch. The only problem I have with those two is I'm not sure there is enough room to write in the names AND I was kinda hoping for something a little bigger.

I kind of like this one
http://www.psal.org/psalsports/Football/psal_footscore.htm

But it's kind of small.

This one looks like it takes up more than one page.

The thing I like about mine (which is similar to the ones linked, except mine is more horizontal legal sized) is that it can all fit on one piece of paper.

Put one team on each side. Put legal pad on a clipboard for PxP, stat sheet underneath the clipboard and very easy to walk the sideline with that set up.

I don't suppose you'd be willing to send my yours?

I'd have to dig it out of a box first, which shouldn't be too difficult.

 

[rwendt]

Thanks Stitch. The only problem I have with those two is I'm not sure there is enough room to write in the names AND I was kinda hoping for something a little bigger.

I kind of like this one
http://www.psal.org/psalsports/Football/psal_footscore.htm

But it's kind of small.

This one looks like it takes up more than one page.

The thing I like about mine (which is similar to the ones linked, except mine is more horizontal legal sized) is that it can all fit on one piece of paper.

Put one team on each side. Put legal pad on a clipboard for PxP, stat sheet underneath the clipboard and very easy to walk the sideline with that set up.

I don't suppose you'd be willing to send my yours?

I'd have to dig it out of a box first, which shouldn't be too difficult.

[email protected] is my email when you find it. Thanks in advance.