ANALYZE GAMES

 

 

 USING THE ANALYSIS GRID

Easy-Scout XP Analyzer has an enhanced version of the View Games "Grid" that is present in Easy-Scout XP.  Designed to work with more than one game at a time, the analysis Grid in Analyzer includes a number of powerful yet easy-to-use features and is capable of displaying plays from more than one game at a time. 

The form is structured so that the "controls" at the top of the Grid adjust the Grid's "contents" (plays) and how they are displayed and those at the bottom "process" those contents. 

To add a Filter "condition":

  1. Click the Field list and select one of the Grid's column names

  2. Click the Radio button for one of the "operators", such as Equal to, Contains, Greater than, etc.

  3. Enter or Select a Value for that operator.

  4. Click Results

  5. Repeat Step 1 to cascade Filter Results or Click Reset to remove the Filter(s) and start with the full Result Set.

There are a number of things worth noting about the Analysis grid (shown above):

  1. The title bar in the upper left of the Grid Window shows the names of the Games that are being analyzed in the Result Set. The width of the game list is limited and may concatenate the game list if a large number of games are being analyzed at one time.  The games are still in the grid, though even if the names of the games don't appear in the Window Title Bar (see the Game Name column)

  2. A "cascaded" “Search” or “Filter” is being applied to these games.  In the example above, the first part of the Filter limits the plays displayed in the grid to those on 1st Down (Down = 1) and the second part of the Filter further reduces the plays to those run from any Pro Set (Formation Name contains Pro).  We call this process of combining Filter "conditions" cascading.

  3. No Sort is also being applied to the Search results at the moment.  To SORT the plays in the Grid, simply “double-click” on any column heading. If we wanted to Sort by Play Name, we would just “double-click” on the Play Name heading. Clicking on the same column a second time changes the order from Ascending to Descending.

  4. To adjust the position of the columns in the grid, click and drag one or more columns to the left or right until the columns are positioned as desired. The column positions will be "remembered" by Analyzer.

  5. To adjust the width of a column, click and drag the line between the column heading and the field to its right. Changes in column widths will also be "remembered" by Analyzer.

  6. The buttons at the bottom of the screen will "process the search results".  The choices for processing the results are printing "filtered" REPORTS, saving a RESULT SET and creating an EXCEL worksheet. 

  7. The Close button will DISCARD the plays and return to the Previous screen.

The Analysis grid is an extremely powerful and flexible tool. With just a few clicks of the mouse it is possible to perform extensive "on-screen" analysis on single or multiple games.  Then, using one of the built in templates, this data that results from this analysis can be formatted and presented in a “paper-report” format or even exported to Microsoft Excel.  The result is a tool for the analytical coach that makes it possible to quickly isolate and review any play in any game as well as perform further analysis. 

REPORTS

Clicking Reports will open the Filtered Reports Manager .  This is explained in detail on its own help screen.

SAVE SET

Clicking Save Set will save the plays that are "in the grid" at that time to a file.  When saving a result set, you will be asked to provide a Result Set Name and Result Set Description.  These labels along with the names of the games that were used to create the result set will be displayed on the Select Games screen to make it easy to identify the contents (plays) that are contained in each "set".

EASY-EXPORT

The Easy-Export capability in Analyzer has multi-game capability - meaning it can create an Excel file with data from more than one game. Plus, Analyzer will remember the way you arrange the column headings and apply that to the order in which it creates columns in Microsoft Excel.  Coaches who are accustomed to using Excel for analysis or preparing charts and graphs, will find that Easy-Scout XP Analyzer makes that much easier to do.

Taken alone, the Multi-Game analysis and Easy-Scout Export are powerful new capabilities. These capabilities are significantly enhanced when combined with the printing process.

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