The product
The opponent brief
One report a week on your next opponent, across all three phases. Page one is the coordinator summary. The pages after it break down each phase, and the appendix lists every play behind every number.
What’s inside
Coordinator summary
The findings worth your time this week, one line each, with the count and evidence label beside every claim. Readable in five minutes.
Offense
Run and pass by down, distance and field zone. Success rate and explosive plays by situation. Third down, red zone, fourth down and two-point tries.
Defense
What they allow by down and distance. Third-down and red-zone stops. Explosive plays allowed, takeaways and sacks, and where drives end against them.
Special teams
Kickoff and punt coverage and returns, touchback and fair-catch choices, field goals by distance, blocks, fakes and onside history, and field position valued in expected points.
Film checklist
The questions only film can answer, each tied to the specific plays, so your quality-control staff can pull them straight away.
Appendix
Every source, every threshold and every supporting play, so any number in the brief can be checked.
Built for game week
The brief is built from recorded play-by-play of every game your opponent has played this season, then checked against fixed sample-size rules before anything reaches your staff.
Your staff tells us the opponent and the questions that matter. The brief answers them first.
What the brief leaves to film
- Formation, personnel, alignment, coverage and technique. Play-by-play doesn’t record them, so we don’t guess them.
- Called plays. A scramble recorded as a rush is reported as a recorded rush.
- Predictions. The brief reports what happened and what it could mean, labelled as an inference.
In development
Planned work, not a commitment or a date.
- Postgame decision review. Fourth downs, two-point tries and clock decisions from your own game, compared against a drive-value model, with the few worth a second look flagged.
- Your charted data. Tendencies built from the film tags your staff already keeps, held to the same sample-size rules.
See the format.
A full example page, built on a made-up team.