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 easy & 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 wraps up. 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., 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 between three players for the remaining position on your soccer team. After looking at SkillShark’s player comparison reports, you can easily identify which player excels across each of the core skills (forward-specific).

Track Player Development

Evaluations don’t just end at tryouts. Conducting mid-season evaluations, clinics, or year-end evaluations is quick and effortless with SkillShark’s digital evaluation tool. Use these evaluations as checkpoints throughout the season to track player progress.

Use progress reports to share feedback with players, helping them understand what areas they are excelling at and what areas need improvement.

 
Cut Down Evaluation Time

Make team placement decisions in hours, not days. The process with spreadsheets 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 room for error in this process is huge: from lost scores, mis-entered data, or inaccurate reports generated.

With SkillShark, cut down the process immensely: both time and effort. As scores are entered on the back end, all data is configured into real-time reports. After an evaluation ends, all you need to do is select the type of report and which 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 proper feedback, athletes don’t know what skills they should work on and how they can improve. This leads to feelings of frustration and uncertainty, which may discourage them from returning the following season.

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

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

• When ready, select the athlete(s) you would like to view the report card for 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? It cuts down evaluation time immensely, so you can 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.