Zartan wrote:morell wrote:Q. wrote:Which app is that?
But no seriously I am working on something which is pretty customised to what an amateur coach needs when on the sidelines. All of the current offerings I've seen are either designed around automating interchanges or tracking detailed statistics. Which is great and I am sure some would find that helpful, but that inherent complexity also makes them more expensive and difficult to use. I want something cheap, very simple and designed with amateur coaches in mind, not AFL ones.
@smdo33 is a bit of a technotard and couldn't tune an analogue TV, so perhaps doesn't understand some of the benefits such a tool would provide.
Great idea! I've always though there needs to be an app along these lines - the ones that are available are ok but really only small aspects are useless in the bigger scheme of things.
I would purchase your app morel - especially if it meant I could get away from carrying a big ugly whiteboard around and forever losing magnets or having to create new ones

Naively I am not sure about any sort of commercial or business model in terms of providing it to others at this stage as it's pretty unique to my personal annoyances. Which are:
Different magnet names for players - "Who is Browny? Nah that's Smithy". I had three magnets on the board with names from people not playing representing players on the field because there was no magnet made or the A's nicked them.
Stupid nicknames on magnets - just because when he signed up he said his nickname was "Tank" doesn't mean it still is 14 years later.
Double up names on magnets - we had two Nick's play and sure enough, two Nick magnets.
Messy left over "x's and o's" on the whiteboard - someone somewhere thought it was a great idea to explain the switch in a permanent marker.
Having to fumble about picking the magnets off when in a rush and trying to make multiple changes - I've got a smashed hand and zero dexterity, it's not easy.
But I still want the flexibility of the free form magnet board in regards to shifting positions and structures to try things and see how they look.