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February 2021 Release Notes, Part 2

It's been a busy month! This week we released our second release for the month. This one includes updates to the Team Schedule, Roster, and the introduction of Team Settings. Team Schedule Calendar View This will be the most obvious enhancement for our Complete Team and Collegiate subscribers. From the desktop, this will now be your new schedule view to get a more complete picture of the month ahead. This view will also allow you to view your schedule history. RSVPs can be done from the event summary. Event Detail When you select an event, you will be taken to the new event details screen. This will outline specifics of the event: Date/Time, Location, Practice Objectives. Everyone will be able to RSVP from the action bar at the bottom, while coaches will be able to trigger an immediate Event Reminder or make edits to the event. By flipping over to ATTENDANCE, coaches will see a brief summary of RSVPs for their team, a list of who has RSVPed, and who has not. In addition, coaches wi
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January 2021 Release Notes: The App is LIVE.

  Save Time and Keep Your Team Accountable. Lacrosse Lab helps coaches run a more productive team. One where you spend less time standing around and more time practicing. With our play designer, team schedule, and roster management, coaches can offload many of the setup and administrative tasks to happen before practice so that their players come prepared and ready to play.
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February 2021 Release Notes

 On Saturday, February 6, we released our second set of enhancements of 2021. This one was almost entirely driven by user requests. Here's a quick look at the changes: 1. Player and Move Detail - this was a really popular request of our most prolific play creators. The Player and Move Detail options have now been moved to the Design Toolbar. They will contextually appear when you've selected either a player or a move. See the Move Type and Add Role pop-ups in the screenshots below. 2. Share Folders - With this enhancement, you can now share entire folders from My Playbook to Team playbook.  3. Rearrange Plays/Folders - You can now re-order your plays and folders within your playbooks to stay organized and prioritize for your players. Use the "Move Up" and "Move Down" options in the play or folder drop-down.
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Eight things we've learned as entrepreneurs.

This is not a traditional post, but we wanted to take some time to share some of our learnings. A lot of our customers are small business owners, so maybe this brief change-up will be useful. We've been working on this project for a few years and have grown quite a bit in that time. We're sprinting in our execution and still finding time to balance our hard work with a lot of time for reflection. While these thoughts are written in the context of a software startup, they're lessons that can be applied to any type of business, even Club Lacrosse and AAU Basketball. Here are a few things that we're attributing to our success: 1. Be obsessed with product design. Iterate constantly. Be agile. All those buzzwords, seriously. Nothing that we've built is off-limits for a revamp; it can all be improved. We circle back to things that we built 3 years ago at least every couple of months to make sure they still align with the vision or our next round of enhancements. Also, mak
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Is 6v6 Part of your Lacrosse Practice Plan? Drop it for Small-Sided Games.

There's one truth in lacrosse that generally holds true:  The more skilled and athletic team will generally be the victor.  Team schemes can only get you so far. This is especially true when there is not enough skill or talent to execute those schemes. To help our players develop, we need to prioritize drills that maximize development in skill and lacrosse IQ. What's wrong with 6v6? We'll just come out and say it: It's terrible for developing skill. Only one player has the ball at a time getting work carrying the ball, throwing the ball, or shooting the ball. We'll admit, 6v6 can be good for developing IQ, but is there anything that can be learned in 6v6 that can't be learned in other, more efficient ways? Small-Sided Games We believe strongly in the use of small-sided games. Small-sided games reduce the number of players on the field and can layer in additional constraints. Your options for small-sided games are endless and they do a few things much better than
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Release Notes: August 9, 2020

It's quietly been a busy summer for us. On Sunday, we pushed out another release, largely driven by customer feedback. Going forward you will now see: Autosave  This has been a long time coming but is our favorite feature in this release. Lacrosse Lab and Hoops Lab will now automatically save plays throughout your play design process. No more lost plays! Email Team  Sometimes you just need to send a simple study reminder to your team. Now, when you select EMAIL TEAM from the Team Roster page, you can write your email within Lacrosse Lab/Hoops Lab and embed play links to be distributed to your team. All contact emails will be pre-filled in the email dialogue box so that you can customize your distribution list. Help Section  While you're designing plays, you can hop over to our YouTube channel for quick tutorial videos on some of the play design features. If there's a feature that we haven't built yet or you have a question, feel free to leave us feedback. We read it all
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