The Best Ways to Track Basketball Stats

Are you a basketball coach looking to implement a stat and data driven system this coming year?

Lets break down your options: 

Assistant Coach or Parent Manually Tracking

This is the most common form of stat-tracking at the high school level and below, and understandably so. A lot of head coaches utilize assistants as scorekeepers and stat trackers. By keeping track of these details in the midst of a game, assistant coaches or parents are also able to make notes and provide context along with the stats.

Pros:

• Cost-effective - assistant coaches are already a part of the team’s staff, or parents typically volunteer for the task.

Cons:

• Human error - this actually happens quite a lot. People get distracted, or they play favorites.
• Availability and consistency is one more thing to manage.
• If assistant coaches are focusing on stat-tracking, they won’t be able to focus their time on the players.

Parent Filming Games

On most teams at the high school, there are at least a couple of engaged parents who are willing to film games. Typically, they want to use this footage to help their children improve, but all help is welcome if you’re a coach. With this film, the coach has to spend hours for every game reviewing and stating the games.

Pros:

• Cost-effective
• If a parent films instead of an assistant coach, it allows that assistant to do their job and help you out.
• You are able to watch the footage after the game and make your own evaluations..

Cons:

• Parent bias - if the parent’s child is on the court, there’s a chance they will focus on them instead of the actual game.
• Watching footage and tracking stats can be tedious. You just spent the entire game coaching, now you have to watch it all back and stat the entire game all over again before you can really analyze the team's performance.

Using Stat Tracking Programs

Many high school coaches utilize stat-tracking apps, which can be a big time saver. Some of these apps are poor quality, others operate on a trial basis, and the high-quality ones can utilize the entire athletic department operating budget.

Pros:

• You don’t have to track stats yourself. This saves you plenty of time and presents a more polished product for you to evaluate effortlessly.
• Provides the opportunity to cut through the down parts of games and focus on important moments.

Cons:

• Many solutions require a coach or parent to push statistics into an app in real time
• If you want a polished product, it's going to cost you

SportsVisio

SportsVisio uses the power of a proprietary AI to capture statistics from game footage. It’s a whole new way to track your game, and it comes in at less than half the cost of your other options. Here's how easy it is to get your basketball stats: 

1. Record the game in any way that's easy for you (here is our complete guide)
2. Upload your game into our Manager app and turn our AI basketball robots loose analyzing your game.
3. Get your stats (and all of your clips) back the next day for review in the SportsVisio app.

Check out our pricing and get started with SportsVisio today.  If you want help getting started or selecting the best package for your school or team - contact us.

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