How to track Gaelic football stats from the sideline

Football games are often decided away from the scoreboard: who wins the kick-outs, who coughs up the ball, and how many chances turn into scores. You don't need a video analyst to see it. One person on the sideline with a phone can keep the numbers that matter.

Start with the scoreboard

Record every score and wide against the player: goal, point, two-pointer or free. That alone gives you each player's scoring, your conversion rate, and when in the game you score and concede.

Kick-outs

Kick-outs are the stat most worth adding. Record your own kick-outs won and lost, and theirs. A side winning 70% of its own kick-outs gets far more of the ball than one winning half. If you're losing them, look at where they're going: short, mid-range or long.

Turnovers

Note when you win the ball back (a tackle, a block, a forced turnover) and when you give it away carrying into contact or with a loose pass. Turnovers in your own half cost the most.

Keep it to two taps

While watching play, two taps per event is about the limit: who, then what. Anything more and you miss the next passage. A big Undo button matters more than any other feature.

Use it after the game

Look across several games, not one. Kick-out success, scores from turnovers and wides per game tell you what to work on at training. Share the positives with players; keep the failures for the coaches.

In My Coaching App

Live Scoring records scores, wides, cards, subs and fouls in two taps, works with no signal, and builds the match report and season stats automatically. The Play tab adds kick-outs won and lost, high catches, tackles and turnovers. Try the demo to score a game yourself, or read the hurling and camogie version.