Sports Playbook Builder
Choose a sport for the field outline, place your players, then build each play as numbered steps. For each step, add movements: a run, pass, dribble or screen by one player, as one or more points. Each arrow is drawn on its own step and starts where that player is at that moment.
Positions are a share of the field, x along the length and y across the width, from 0 to 100, so a play keeps its shape on any field size or view. The fields are plain outlines with the usual lines, drawn for this tool: no league names, logos or official field art. Move players and points with the arrow keys in the play editor.
Downloads: PDF, Project file, PNG
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How to use the Sports Playbook Builder
- Pick a layout: Board-led overview (a landscape page per play), Play cards (six step cards a page) or Annotated overview (each field above numbered notes).
- Choose the sport and add players with a label, a number and a starting position from 0 to 100. Leave the play empty to use a player in every play.
- Add plays with a name, a view (full field or the right half) and steps.
- In the play editor, pick a play, a step and a player, then add a run, pass, dribble or screen and move its end point with the arrow keys.
- Create document, check the diagrams, then download the PDF or PNG pages.
Example
A 5-page landscape football playbook with two plays: an overlap on the right in three steps (a pass wide, the winger coming inside while the right back dribbles past, then a cross and a near-post run) and a give and go at the edge of the box on the right half.
What it does not do
- The fields are generic outlines in typical proportions, not to any league's exact rules or art. A plain rectangle is available for anything else.
- Positions and points are from 0 to 100 on each axis. A point outside the right half is refused for a half-field play; a player there is left off that play's diagram and warned.
- A pass moves the ball, not the passer; a run, dribble or screen moves the player to its last point for the next step.
- Play cards hold a short instruction (up to 220 characters); longer step text is refused by name. PDF, PNG pages and project file only.
- Up to 250 pages and 500 entries in any list.
Documents are made in your browser and are not uploaded or stored by Zerdly. Check the finished document before you use it.
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