DoubleTake Play Book (PB) app is “Minority Report meets coaching! It is not just a static whiteboard or drawing tool…it is a multi-screen play simulation experience for the entire team! Not only is PB is available on your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ and Android Market for use on the court, field, pitch, rink, bus, plane, hotel … it is also available on a 55” transparent holographic touch screen for your locker room, coach’s office or gym!
Play Book includes the following sports: Basketball, Football, Baseball, Soccer, Lacrosse, Hockey, Ringette, and even Curling! More sports added regularly upon request.
- PB is a play simulator, play recorder and instant replay app for coaches and sports teams to take with them on the court or field! Throw out your old clipboard and start using your tablet app instead!
- PB is a multi-touch play builder/recorder! You can touch the screen to add Xs/Os, drag them around, record plays, and run instant replays during the game! You can record unlimited plays and take your play book with you on the court, field, plane or bus!
- Plays are stored centrally on a server … which mean the entire team can access the plays on the web, desktop, tablet or touch screen in the locker room! You are not tied to one device. You can access your plays on the web at http://www.playbook4web.com !
- PB is also available on large transparent touch screens in your locker room or coaches office! Imagine collaborating with coaches and players on the design of the plays and interacting with them like Minority Report in front of the whole team and staff!
- PB is kept pure and simple and easy to use. Record and Run Instant Play. That’s it. Fast.
Instructions
1. Register – Enter an email address and password and click the Register button. Check your email inbox. Click the link in the email to activate your account. Login. Your login info is saved, so when you return, just tap start!
2. Select a sport from the list of sports.
3. Tap Record, Tap Record a new Play.
4. Tap X or O or ball. Touch screen to using one or more fingers to add selected items to the court ,field, pitch, or rink.
5. After players are setup, Tap Record and drag each player around as if they were running the play. The movements will be recorded.
6. To Dribble or run the ball, double tap on the player you want to carry the ball. Drag the ball and the player will follow.
7. To pass, double tap on any player and the ball will be passed to that player.
8. To shoot, double tap the goal and the ball will move to the goal.
9. To preview the play, tap Play. The play will run.
10. To, setup the play again from the beginning tap Setup.
11. When finished, enter a name of the play and tap the check mark to save play. After play is saved, it will be added to your play list.
12. To run an instant replay, just tap the play in the play list! Tap the pencil/pen icon to draw on top of the play in red color.
Release 1.0.6
1. Fixed splash screen issue with 1.0.3
2. Added Baseball
3. Added Offline Plays option. You can now take your plays offline and run them when you are not connected to the internet.
4. Added Drag Remove to Recording. If you want to remove a player or ball, just drag it into the lower left corner inside the Remove box. gone!
5. Improvements to user accounts. Registration and email validation are now required for sign up. My Account button added for users to change their email address and password. Re-Activation is required if changed.
Release 1.0.3
1. Added Ringette sport
Release 1.0.2
1. Added Curling sport
Release 1.0.1
1. Adds “Dribble” or “run with the ball” feature. Just double tap on the player to get the ball.
2. Adds passing – just tap on the player you want to pass the ball to.
3. Adds shooting – just tap on the goal and the ball will go into the goal.
4. Adds Setup and Record modes. Allows you to setup your players to get ready to begin recording.
5. Adds “None” option to Setup to add nothing on tap. Tap none to ensure extra balls or players don’t get added by accident.
Hi Guys, Great start to application that can be so big in the baskteball coaching world.
A couple of suggestions to impove this appliacation would be to have the option instead of X & O’s you could use the number positions 1 to 5.
Also is there a way to add the 3 point line in?
Is there a way to show a defence screen?
Keep up the great work. Matt
Thanks for the feedback Matt. These are good suggestions. I’ll add it my list, but can’t commit to when at this time.
Only way to show a screen is to draw it when the play is playing using the marker on the Play View. But, that is not included in the recording. I’ll think about ways to make it something you can add.
Don
You knocked it out of the Park with this app, 5 stars. Just finished leaving comments on BB Apple Store Site, “Ringette Rocks” 2/25/2012.
Free Play Lines in offensive and defensive zones, Free Play dots would be nice touches. Possible to get a half rink? Also is it possible to copy a Setup multiple times for a basis to record various iterations of plays?
Thx,
Jay
Thanks Jay! Appreciate the 5 stars!
Not sure what you mean by the zones and dots. If you reply with a pic noting them, I’d be glad to add them. Half rink is not a problem.
Saving setups is a great idea! I’ll add it to our list too.
Don
Hi there,
First of all I love the new Play Book App. I think you can go far with this application……my sport is Ice Hockey and I have allot of great ideas to help you guys with this project. Please contact me as I think a few of my ideas will be universal which will be huge for this app. Also obviously without a offline option to use the board it renders it useless for most of us coach’s. I personally am having a problem with the start up where it doesn’t show me an option to work offline ? When wi-fi is shut off or not available it does say work offline but then the Take Plays Offline button and Load Offline Plays is greyed out ? HELP ! !
Sincerely,
Dave
Dave, here is how the offline access works:
1) While connected to internet, tap the Take Offline button. This stores your plays for offline use later.
2) When offline, tap Load Offline Plays.
You must be connected initially to take them offline. From then on, your current plays will be available offline.
Thanks for your ideas. Please post them as a comment.
Don
yes being to hit a clear button to just clear the red lines you draw from a main formation you may have saved
thanks for the fix it works now. love being able to take the plays offline. could you add a clear button for when you want to draw on a standard formation. currently you have to hit the back button to clear the board then re select the board you have setup.
Do you mean clearing the red marker drawings on the Play view? If so, that shouldn’t be a problem to add.
Good news! Version 1.0.6 was approved by Blackberry today. They confirmed that it fixed the startup issue some experienced with 1.0.3. Look for the update to show up today or tomorrow!
1.0.6 also includes new features, including offline plays and the ability to remove players and balls during setup. See release notes above.
Sorry for those of you Blackberry Playbook version users that experienced problems with 1.0.3 . My apologies.
Don
Love the app, but find that the x and o can be a little large compared to the field. Would also like to see half field screens for all sports
Thanks for the feedback. The size of the X/O is sized for the size of the finger so that it can be touched and moved around. Unfortunately, the playing area is limited to the available screen size, so it does make them a little too large.
We do have some half fields. Which sport are you needing half?
Half field for soccer would allow me to demonstrate corner kicks, free kicks and defensive positioning in more detail
Sounds good Tim. I’ll add Soccer half pitch as soon as I can.
Don
thanks for the quick feedback. hopefully they get it worked out early next week. i did notice when i go onthe web version the football icon is not avaliable for use and the clear board option
Justin, you should see the football icon show up now.
We did re-submit a 1.0.4 release today with the hope that re-packaging it and re-uploading it fixes the freeze.
In the meantime, an alternative workaround is to use your browser on the tablet and go to http://www.playbook4web.com . Take it full screen. This is if you want to be able to show the plays to your team and version 1.0.3 is freezing on you.
Hope this web workaround helps if you need the plays this weekend.
Don
Some users are reporting that the latest 1.0.3 release is freezing up. We’ve contacted Blackberry support. This release was tested and approved by Blackberry prior to release, so at this time we don’t know what is causing the issue. Unfortunately, Blackberry’s turnaround on approving new versions is a few days and they don’t have an option to backup to a prior release. And I don’t believe they provide weekend support. So, it may be Tuesday or Wed before there is a solution.
If you haven’t yet updated to 1.0.3, please hold off for a few days.
We apologize and will keep you posted here.
Don
http://www.playbook4web.com/ has been upgraded to match the new Play Book design. Access your plays on the web when you’re on your laptop or PC at work.
Don
Thanks Don. Wow I can’t believe how responsive you guys are!
I love the Social Networking idea.
Hi Don,
Yes I use a white board to show my kids defensive movements in bunt situations, for example, or how outfielders and middle fielders should cover for each other or cover bases depending on which bases have runners on them. Stuff like that.
What would be really cool is to also be able to tap into a library of standard defensive situations, or to be able to collaborate with other coaches to build such a library and share knowledge with each other.
Bill, Sounds good. We’ll try to add baseball soon. I love the idea of sharing plays! We’ll add that too. Social Networking would be good to pull into it too. Thanks!
Bill, did you see that we added Baseball in 1.0.6?
Are there any plans to add baseball/softball?
Bill, would you make X/O plays in Baseball? We didn’t think this type of play solution was used in baseball? We could add it if there is a need.
Don
Curling was submitted for release version 1.0.2 today. Look for it soon! Thanks for the feedback. Special shout of to Marc for his help with the design. You Curling fans out there give it a try and let us know if any changes are needed to make it better. I must admit, see the red and blue stones, instead of Xs and Os, is pretty cool in the replay animation!
Don
I have loaded the new release and I am very impressed. I have told a bunch of people about this app. thanks for the quick responses and fixes
Thank you James! We appreciate the feedback and referrals very much!
Don
James, yes! Curling is actually on our list to add! Your vote is counted. Hope to add it very soon. Thanks!
Is there any chance of getting a curling background. I have just downloaded this app and it looks fantastic. would be great for reviewing plays for team.
Thanks Chris. Yes, there will be an offline option early this year. We can add Field Hockey. Guess it isn’t like the Hockey rink we have now is it? Can you post a comment with a link to the rink layout for Field Hockey? We have about 5 different requests for added sports, so we’ll for sure add this one too.
Appreciate the feedback.
Don
Hi, here’s a hockey pitch:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.simplygone.com/siteimages/hockey.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.simplygone.com/coverage.asp&h=229&w=400&sz=35&tbnid=wKXfuWJieb0FwM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhockey%2Bpitch%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=hockey+pitch&docid=obk2k95OF_RfkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2ecXT7fwLM2O4gTfsciNDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDsQ9QEwAg
and here’s a Shooting D where a lot of routines occur:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=field+hockey+shooting+%27D%27&um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=625&tbm=isch&tbnid=PYVCIHhiHHEatM:&imgrefurl=http://www.filebuzz.com/findsoftware/Hockey_Game/1.html&docid=yvdF36qN5sHCZM&imgurl=http://www.filebuzz.com/software_screenshot/full/hockey_pro_2006-54484.png&w=800&h=600&ei=OegXT5-fIa2Q4gSalqiVDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=99&vpy=57&dur=4125&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=253&ty=141&sig=100543302107437995851&page=1&tbnh=135&tbnw=180&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
Thanks Chris, We’ll add Field Hockey soon. Appreciate the help.
Don
hi, i’ve literally just downloaded the app and have already made numreous drills. My sport is Field Hockey and i’ve had to make do with the lacrosse and soccer versions – which isn’t a problem (but do feel free to make one!) However i do agree with a previous comment in the necessary use of wifi as most uses for this app would be on the pitch, at training. will there soon be a way to use this app without the need for wifi in so areas?
Great program, but unless you have access to WiFi on the field or can tether, the app will be of limited value. I look forward to a version where I can save locally on my PB and sync to a Web account.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we do plan to allow for offline use in future versions. In the meantime, a small MiFi would do the trick or tether. The initial goal was centralized, cloud storage, but you can expect sync to be available Q1 2012.
Don