Looking for Basketball Analysis Software?
Posted by David Keefe on Wed, Jan 19, 2011 @ 02:13 PM
Just had a really nice conversation with basketball coach from South Carolina. He has been "heavily" researching anaysis software for his basketball team and he wanted to talk on the phone before he made a commitment to upmygame online video analysis tools. I was excited to hear his questions and I was also excited to ask some of my own.
His first question was how the videos got in the hands of his athletes and would they be private? I explained that historically 70% of videos getting uploaded are uploaded by a coach (45% for today) and that when the coach uploads the video they enter their athletes email address (first time only) and that their athlete will be sent a link in the mail to take ownership of the video. If it is the athlete's first video they will need to register in the system to take ownership of the video. Any coaching sessions on that athletes video will result in another email notification to the athlete with a link to watch the coaching session. He wanted to know about privacy and I explained that all online video analysis coaching sessions could be made public or private. He also wanted to know a little bit about ecommerce and what types of things coaches were selling. I explained that some coaches sell coaching sessions to athletes that they have never met before and that this service is normally marketed by the individual coach. His final set of questions were about the tools themselves. He wanted to know what tools he would have access to. I explained that a coach could add lines, pencil diagrams, angles, text, audio, spline drawing and rectangles to one frame or multiple frames of the video. He asked if you could follow the trajectory of the ball and I told him you could not do that (I have researched it) but nobody has ever asked for it. I try to keep the application easy but if that was something he couldnt do his job without we could make it happen for him. One thing that I was very happy about wat that the coach understood that he got his own website www.myteam.upmygame.com and that it looked like his team website. This is a very cool feature that we offer and not everyone gets that right away. Coach liked all of my answer and said he would become a new customer.
Now it was my turn to ask some questions. I asked him "What were you looking for when you found upmygame?" He told me he was searching for "basketball analysis software". He told me he found upmygame on the 6th page of google. I was a little surprised that he would find upmygame for the keyword on google at all but it sounded good to me. Then he said "hmmm, maybe I didnt". What we found out was that he had found another basketball coach who uses upmygame software on the 6th page of google and had found us from that site. If you are a basketball coaching looking for online video analysis software and not the old expensive offline video analysis software or the kind that you do the edits offline and then publish online upmygame would like to serve your needs. Please ask away with all your questions and I would be glad to help. Hopefully by telling this story you can some idea about what upmygame does to help coaches do their job and they act like a partner. Our goal is to give you the tools to perform video analysis with your athletes and make it easy and fun to do. We know you dont have much time so we make it quick too!