Upload a PowerPoint — choose PPTX Converter on the signed-in home page, review the visual deck guide, and continue to the protected upload screen. Every play slide needs one large rectangle shape marking the field. With no section separators, all recognized plays become offense; use OFFENSE and DEFENSE separators for a mixed deck.
Play Editor — draw plays right in the browser at /editor. No PowerPoint needed: drag the player chips, draw routes and zone lines, add text, and generate from there.
Either way, generation runs in the cloud and produces the same four print-ready PDFs:
🏈Offense Coach Card Full-page 4×4 grid, 16 plays per page. PPTX uploads can continue across pages.
🛡️Defense Coach Card Full-page grid of your defensive formations (up to 6).
⏰Offense Wristband Cut-out card groups sized for QB wristband insert windows, eight plays per output page.
⏰Defense Wristband Same-size defense reference cards for player wristbands.
Each play tile is about 1.07 × 1.02 in. The dashed cut-out group that holds the tiles is about 4.40 × 2.09 in.
Editor quick start
Add a play — click + Add play under OFFENSE or DEFENSE in the sidebar. New plays start with the standard formation already placed.
Move players — with the Select tool, drag any chip. Routes stay attached to their chip when it moves.
Draw an arrow route — pick the Arrow tool, click near the chip the route starts from, then click each waypoint. Press Enter or double-click to finish; Esc cancels without saving the route.
Add a block — pick Block and click where the block happens. The editor draws a T-ended block from the nearest player; each click adds one block.
Lines — the Line tool works the same way (click waypoints, Enter or double-click to finish) and defaults to a dashed zone-line style with no arrow.
Text — pick Text and click the field. Enter saves, Shift+Enter adds a new line, and long text wraps on the card automatically.
Ball — click the field to place a football marker.
Erase — click any route, line, label, or ball to remove it.
The hint line under the field always shows what the current tool does.
Editing
Select & reshape — with Select, click a route or line to select it, then drag its round handles to reshape it.
Add a bend — double-click anywhere on a selected route or line segment to insert a new handle there.
Remove a bend — double-click an existing handle to remove it.
Restyle — while a route or line is selected, the style controls apply to it directly: color swatches, Solid/Dashed, route end (Arrow / Ball / Block / None), and corners (Smooth / Sharp).
Edit text — double-click a label with Select to change its wording.
Delete — press Delete or Backspace to remove the selection.
Undo / redo — Ctrl/Cmd+Z undoes, Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y) redoes. History is kept per play.
Editor playbook & numbering
In-playbook toggle — the checkbox on each sidebar row controls whether a play prints. Unchecked plays stay on the bench: kept in your account, shown faded, but left out of the PDFs.
Sticky numbers — a play keeps its number (offense 1–16) or letter (defense A–F) once assigned, even as you bench or reorder other plays — so wristbands you printed earlier stay valid.
Renumber — when you want a clean sequence again, the Renumber button reassigns numbers in sidebar order.
Editor print caps — a browser-editor generation includes at most 16 offense and 6 defense plays at once. PPTX uploads have a separate multi-page offense limit of 64.
Storage caps — your account can keep up to 64 offense and 24 defense plays total (in playbook + benched), so you can archive plays between seasons.
Generating & printing
Check the outputs you want (any of the four PDFs), then hit Generate. Jobs usually take about 1–2 minutes; the page polls automatically and shows download buttons when everything is ready.
Coach cards are full-page grids — print one set per coach. Uploaded offense decks use 16 plays per page and continue automatically when needed.
Wristband sheets print six identical 4.40 × 2.09 in cut-out groups per page, with dashed cut guides around each group. Each output page holds the next eight offense plays.
Print at 100% scale and laminate before cutting. Turn off “fit to page” so the wristband inserts keep their exact size.
Print at 100% scale. Check the print dialog for “actual size” and turn off scaling or “fit to page.”
Laminate the full sheet before cutting. Let it cool and flatten first if you use a heat laminator.
Cut along the dashed guides. Scissors work, or an optional compact trimmer such as the
Fiskars SureCut portable paper trimmer
can make clean, straight cuts without taking much storage space.
Load the holder. Slide each finished insert into a panel with the 4.40-inch edge following the window’s long edge.
The holder and trimmer are optional examples. Accessory links are for reference only; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the sellers or manufacturers and receive no commission.
Account & safety
Recovery code — save it!
When you create an account you get a one-time recovery code (looks like XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX). Save it somewhere safe — it is the only way back into your account if you forget your password, and it is shown only when issued.
Password reset
Forgot your password? Use your email plus your recovery code to set a new one. Each successful reset issues a fresh recovery code — save the new one, the old one no longer works. You can also rotate your recovery code anytime while signed in.
Backups
You can export your whole playbook as a JSON file at any time, and import it back later. It’s a good habit before big edits — and it’s how you move plays between accounts.
Deleting your account
Account deletion permanently removes your account and stored playbook, and requires your password to confirm. Export a JSON backup first if you might ever want the plays back.
PPTX upload format
The PowerPoint pipeline is deterministic: no LLM interprets your football notation. It reads the slide objects, locates a field rectangle, renders the visible slide, and crops that rendering to the rectangle. For clean results it expects:
Modern PowerPoint file — upload a .pptx, not a legacy .ppt, PDF, Keynote file, or shared link.
One play per slide — keep the play name, number, players, and routes together inside the field.
Field rectangle — make the field one large, ungrouped PowerPoint rectangle at the top level of the slide. Its object name or PowerPoint language does not matter. If a slide has several rectangles, the largest one is used.
Offense-only decks — if the entire deck has no recognized OFFENSE or DEFENSE separator, every slide with a field rectangle becomes an offense play.
Mixed decks — use a nearly empty slide containing OFFENSE or DEFENSE before each section. Once any separator is present, play slides before the first separator are ignored.
Capacity and pagination — uploads support up to 64 offense and 6 defense plays. Offense coach cards paginate every 16 plays; offense wristband sheets paginate every 8.
Slides containing PRINT IMAGES, APPENDIX, or TEMPLATE are skipped automatically.
See the visual PPTX conversion guide for original example slides, a pre-upload checklist, and the most common failure cases.
If a slide is skipped unexpectedly, confirm its field is a separate rectangle shape rather than a group, background image, table, or decorative border.