Why All Coaches Should Use Sports Coaching Software

Accurate team selection, efficient scoring, and timely athlete feedback—each is essential to coaching success, and all are amplified with sports coaching software.

SkillShark brings all of these elements together in one powerful platform, helping coaches run seamless mobile evaluations, confidently draft teams, understand player development, and provide meaningful player feedback.

Let's explore each of these elements in more depth, illustrating how SkillShark's sports coaching software makes player evaluations simple & stress-free.

 
Select Well-Rounded Teams

Base team decisions on data, not guesswork or opinions. With SkillShark, access player rankings & comparison reports minutes after an evaluation is complete. In no time, you can confidently identify top performers and draft accurate teams:

• 1) Player rankings- Rank players from highest to lowest to gain accurate insights into which player(s) are the top performers. You can either view how players rank overall or within a specific skill. I.e., View rankings across dribbling, shooting, or passing in soccer.

• 2) Player comparisons- Stuck on deciding between a few top players when making final draft picks? Compare up to 5 players on any skill to get a clear understanding of how they fare against each other.

  • For example, let’s suppose you are stuck choosing between three players for the final on your soccer team. By reviewing SkillShark’s player comparison reports, you can quickly see which athlete stands out in the key skills that matter most for that position.
    

Track Player Development

Evaluations don’t just end at tryouts. Conducting mid-season evaluations, clinics, or year-end evaluations is simple with SkillShark’s digital evaluation tool.

Use these evaluations as checkpoints throughout the season to monitor player development and share feedback, helping athletes understand where they’re performing well and where they can improve.

 Cut Down Evaluation Time

Make team placement decisions in hours, not days. The process with pen-and-paper evaluations goes a little something like this:

• Enter scores into Excel.

• Spend hours (or days) configuring reports.

• Analyze player data & derive insights.

• Finally, make team placement decisions.

Not to mention the potential for errors in this process—from lost scores and misentered data to inaccurate reports being generated.

With SkillShark, you can save time and effort on evaluations. As scores are entered in the backend, they’re automatically compiled into real-time reports. Once an evaluation ends, simply select the report type and the players & skills to focus on. Accurate insights, in report-ready format, are provided at your fingertips.

We have 1000 kids, 87 different sessions, and close to 100 hours of evaluations that take place. I wouldn’t even be able to calculate the time SkillShark has saved us. Evaluators find it easy, coaches are happy, and I now have concrete data that I can show a parent if questions come up. It’s a great program.

James Mays, Technical Direcotr — PA Minor Hockey

Provide Meaningful Athlete Feedback

70% drop out of sports by age 12 due to one reason: lack of feedback.

As a coach, you have a multitude of tasks to juggle, including game preparation, practice planning, and developing players’ skills. However, without effective feedback, athletes are unable to identify which skills need development or understand how to improve them. This can lead to frustration and uncertainty, potentially discouraging them from returning the following season.

With SkillShark’s pre-generated athlete report cards, provide pro-level feedback to each athlete in minutes:

• Score athletes using any mobile device. As scores are collected, all data is safely stored on the back end.

• When ready to send feedback, select the athlete(s) and send a copy straight to their inboxes.

• Report cards include: scores, comments, videos, developmental resources, benchmarks, and best scored metric.
  
  

SkillShark has significantly streamlined our processes, helping save time with data collection while providing instant athlete report cards after each session. SkillShark is hugely beneficial for our athlete development, as we can easily track their progress and identify areas for growth.

Phil Jevtovic, Senior Manager — Basketball Canada

Wrapping Up

Sports coaching software is more than just a tool to enter scores; it enables coaches to select well-rounded teams, track player progress, and provide in-depth & actionable feedback. The best part is that it significantly reduces evaluation time, allowing you to focus on what matters most—coaching.

Interested in seeing how SkillShark can provide your sports organization with a seamless, stress-free evaluation experience? Book a walkthrough with one of our product experts.