Creating a game model and adopting it for a team

The game model describes how you want your teams to play. It lives in the club's catalogue, in the Library, and each team adopts a published model: it gets a copy of its own, which you can adapt without touching the original.

Creating the model in the catalogue

1. Open Game Models and select "New model".
2. Fill in the "Name" and choose the "Sport", the two required fields. The sport cannot be changed once the model exists.
3. If you want, write the "Game idea" and choose the "Players on court", "Formation", "Style", "Tempo", "Block" and "References".
4. Save. The model starts as a "Draft".

Moments, notes and principles

The "Moments of the game" come from the sport: they are set up on the sport page, under Settings › Sports. In the model, choose a moment and:

• Under "Tactical notes", select "Add note". A note without a title is not saved.
• Select "New principle" and fill in the "Name", "What you want to happen", "Behaviours you want to see" and the "Priority" ("Non-negotiable", "Important" or "To introduce"). "Position instructions" and "Triggers" are optional.
• On a principle, select "Draw a tactical scheme" to show it on the court.

Publishing, duplicating and archiving

• Select "Publish" when the model is ready. Only published models can be adopted by teams.
• In the list, each model's menu has "Duplicate" (creates a copy as a "Draft") and "Archive".
• An archived model drops out of the default list; choose "Archived" under "Status" to see it. To use it again, open it and select "Publish".

Adopting the model for a team

1. In Teams, open the team and go to the "Game Model" tab. On a tablet or a phone the moments of the game sit in a single column.
2. Select "Adopt from the catalogue".
3. Choose a published model for the team's sport and select "Adopt".

If the model is for a different number of players on court from the team's, the app warns you but still lets you adopt it. Each team has one model per season: in a new season, adopt it again.

Editing the team's copy

The "Game Model" tab only shows the model. To change it, select "Edit model": this opens the team's model page, where you edit the idea, notes, principles and schemes.

Changing or deleting the model

1. On the team's "Game Model" tab or on the team's model page, under "Other actions", select "Change model". On a phone, where there is no side panel, the action is under "More", in the bar at the bottom.
2. Choose the new published model and select "Continue".
3. Confirm with "Change model".