Season Planner

Plans one team's season week by week, with the skills to work on each week.

Coach Guides Season Planner
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On This Page Opening the Planner Phases Milestones Weeks The Day Strip Coverage Skills View The Season Overview Related

Opening the Planner

Opens from the team page, Home or an event's Plan tab.

Team page
Open a team and select Planner.
Home
Click the team's This Week entry on Home.
Event Plan tab
Open the Week menu on an event's Plan tab. Click Open the Season Planner.
WhoWhat They Can Do
A role with Season Planner at Edit on the team Edit the planner.
Anyone else who can see the team Read the planner.

Click Print at the top of the page to open the season plan sheet. Click Print there to print, or Save PDF to save a PDF file.

The planner suggests and never restricts. Practices can run off theme. Coverage is a report only and never blocks an action.

Phases

A phase is a stretch of weeks with one goal, such as Fundamentals. The phase appears as a band across its weeks.

Name
The phase's name, such as Fundamentals.
Color
The color of the phase's band.
Starts, Ends
The phase's first and last days.
Goals
What the phase works toward. Goals appear under the phase name.
TaskHow to Do It
Add a phase Click Add Phase at the top of the page.
Edit a phase Click the phase name on the band.
Remove a phase Click Remove. The week themes stay.

Milestones

A milestone is a date to remember, such as a tournament or tryout.

Kind
Select tournament, tryout, break, evaluation or other.
Calendar
Milestones also appear on the calendar.
Break weeks
A week that is all break has no Theme button.
KindIcon
Tournament A trophy
Tryout Two people
Evaluation A star
Break A pause sign
Other A flag
TaskHow to Do It
Add a milestone Click Add Milestone at the top of the page or Milestone on a week row.
Edit a milestone Click the milestone.

Weeks

Gives each week of the season its own row, grouped under phase bands.

Check mark
Marks a past week.
Highlight
Marks the current week.
Example A phase band and the current week. The week shows its theme, its focus tags with their coverage and a tournament on its day strip.
PracticeGame Off Ice or OtherCanceled
Oct 5 to Nov 1 Puck support and breakouts
6Oct 5 to 11
Breakouts
BreakoutsPassingGap ControlEdges2 of 3
TournamentFall Classic Oct 10 to 11

Click Theme on a week row to open the week form.

Theme
A short headline for the week.
Focus Tags
The skills for the week's practices. The list offers every skill on your drills, library plans and added skills.
Notes
Anything else about the week.

Coverage counts a focus tag only when a block carries the same word. Breakout and Breakouts are two different skills until you merge them.

Did you mean
Appears under the form when no drill or plan uses a tag. Click the suggested skill to use that skill instead.
Coverage counts it once a block carries it
Appears for a new skill with no close match. Tag a block with the skill to count it.

On a phone, two or more empty weeks in a row fold into one line. Click Show Weeks to show those weeks. The current week and a week that starts a phase never fold.

Completed weeks fold into one band at the top. Click Show Weeks to show them. Before the season starts and after it ends, every week shows.

Weeks that are all break fold into one band on every screen. The band names the break and its dates. Click Show Weeks to show those weeks.

Break days
Show a hatch. Point at a day to see the break's name.
Break chip
Shows on the first week the break touches.
Weeks that stay a row
A break week with an event, a theme or another milestone. Also the current week and a week that starts a phase.

The Day Strip

Shows the week's events, colored by type to match the legend.

Days outside the season
Stay blank.
Days inside the season
Click a day to add an event on that day. The new event saves as Planned.
With a keyboard
Press Tab to reach a day. Then press Enter to add an event.
Under the strip
Each day with events, then each event's times and title. Click an event to open its page.

Coverage

Shows which of the week's focus skills the practices include. Coverage compares the week's focus tags with the skills on its practices and training sessions.

Example A week with four focus tags. Three are covered so far. One is not covered yet.
Breakouts
BreakoutsPassingEdgesGap Control3 of 4

A session counts a skill from any of these.

  • A block's skills.
  • The skills of a block's drill.
  • The session's own focus tags.
Green tag with a check
A focus tag the week's sessions covered.
Green outline with a check
A focus tag a future week's planned sessions include.
Dashed red tag
A focus tag the week's sessions do not include yet.
N of M
Follows the tags. Point at the count to read the full sentence below.
N of M covered
On a past week, how many of its focus tags its sessions covered.
covered so far
The same count on the current week.
planned
The count on a future week, from its planned sessions.
is not covered yet
Follows each focus tag the current week still lacks. A past week reads is not covered.
is not planned yet
Follows each focus tag a future week's plans lack.
added by hand
Blocks with no library drill behind them. Add skills to those blocks for coverage to count the blocks.
Extras
Tags on the week's events that fall outside its focus.
No count
A week with no practice or no focus tags shows no count.

Skills View

Shows how many practices worked each skill each week. Click Skills to open the view.

Rows
Each added skill and each tag on this season's plans gets a row.
Current week
The current week's column is highlighted.
Example Two skills across four weeks, with each week's practice count and marks.
Skill Sep 28 Oct 5 Oct 12 Oct 19
breakouts Done, 1 3 Missed Revisit
gap control Introduce 2 planned
Number
The practices that week whose plan works the skill. A practice counts once, however many of its drills work the skill.
Color
Blue is 1 practice. Red is the busiest week of the season. The steps between run from blue to red.
Dashed cell
A week ahead. The number counts the practices whose plans already carry the skill.
Introduced, Revisited
A planned week the skill has not reached yet.
Done
A planned week the skill ran in. The count is inside the mark.
Missed
A planned week that passed without the skill.
A past week counts the tags on each practice's blocks and drills and its Focus. A week ahead counts block and drill tags. Canceled practices never count.
ControlWhat the Control Does
Add Skill Adds a skill row, as the steps below describe.
Remove Deletes an added skill and its marks after you confirm.
Filter box Type part of a skill name to narrow the rows.
Skill heading Click to sort the rows.

To add a skill row, follow these steps.

  1. Click Add Skill.
  2. Enter the skill the same way as a drill skill, such as breakouts.
  3. Enter the introduce and revisit weeks as Mondays. Separate revisit weeks with commas.

The Season Overview

Totals one team's season from its sessions and their reviews. Click Overview in the view switcher to open it.

Sessions
Practices, trainings and games that started this season. Canceled sessions never count.
Reviewed
Sessions with a completed review.
Worked, Mixed and Did Not Work
How many reviews gave the session that overall rating.
Minutes Planned
The drills' minutes in the plan at the start of each session.
Minutes Ran
The minutes the drills ran. A drill marked Not Run adds none.
Skills
Each skill with the sessions and minutes that worked it. Not Run counts the sessions that missed it.
Drills
Each drill with how often it ran, its ratings and why it did not run.
Change Next Time
Each review's change, newest first. Click a date to open the review.
Who can see it
A role with Event Reviews at View. Families never see it.

A session with no review counts its plan. The coverage bar and the Skills view count what ran the same way.

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