I’ve never been a fan of FAQ’s since my question apparently is rarely frequently asked. I don’t like having to leave the page I have a question on to search through a giant FAQ section that isn’t necessarily easy to navigate. Many of you have already taken advantage of the help box on every page. Hit help, type in a question, and I’ll respond to you as soon as I possibly can.

Now, since it turns out many of you do actually frequently ask the same questions (set yourself as a parent by clicking ‘my locker’), we’ve updated the help system, on a page by page basis.

Confused about something? Click help, and most of the confusing stuff about that page is there (seems so simple doesn’t it?). But, if you’re still confused, don’t hesitate to type it into the help box, and we’ll send you an email asap.

Check it out. Click on the stats leaderboard on the main page, your locker, or ‘manager tools’ then ‘update game stats’ to check out the new system.

Per team requests, we made the upload more traditional and logical, built up new leaderboard functionality, and made team stats ‘lockable’ in case coaches only want to have players view their own personal stats reports.

Stats now integrate correctly with your game results too.

A few things of note: You can drag and drop players from your bench to the ‘field’ to enter stats for them. If they aren’t in the field but should be, it’s because they didn’t add their position. They can do this by clicking ‘my locker’ then ‘updates picture, position, and number,’ that way, goalies don’t appear in the primary column of field stats and vice versa, but if a goalie gets hurt and a random player steps up you can move him/her into the goalie stats field.

If you’d like to see a demo shoot me an email.

If you were on Athleon today from about 3:58-4:02 Pacific Time, you may have received a nice little error message when trying to navigate the site. Thank you to those of you who let me know this…we’re uploading the new stats system, and had a few minutes of downtime.

It’s back up now, thanks for bearing with us. Will write more on the new stats system later today.

“Believe, deep down in your heart, that you’re destined to do great things,”

-Joe Paterno, Head Football Coach, Penn State University

As you dive deeper into Athleon, you’ll find more and more features. One of which, Athleon workout tracking, is a first version feature. We’re looking to launch version 2 later this spring.

What that means is it’s far from perfect, but more than functional enough for you to use. One glaring problem that coaches ask me about a lot is customized pieces of workouts. Yes the ‘bench press’ is common, but the ‘towel dumbell fly on a stability ball’ is not (and probably not on our site).

I know you have your own workout routines. We have a database of over 200 lifts, conditioning programs, and plyometric exercises for you to choose from…and I know that’s not NEARLY enough. Rather than spending the time continually adding every workout we can possible imagine, we wait for you to tell us what you want.

It happened today, I just added a bunch of wall drills for lacrosse training that coaches requested. Have a sport specific drill you want up? Maybe just some sort of crazy hanging leg raise with a suspended twist ab flux that you want your players to do? Just send me the name, a short description, and the parameters (sets, reps, weight….time etc. etc.) and, assuming it’s not TOO strange, I’ll add it for you asap.

We’re doing a 180 on our stats system per user requests, and are excited about where it’s going.

HOWEVER, when developing it, we used some coding language the broke a few buttons on our website, namely those in our workout feature. So, if you’ve tried to upload a workout in the past day, I’m sure it was very frustrating when you got stuck with no way to upload the workout to your team.

It’s fixed now. Sorry for the problem. If you see any other things like this please let us know asap so we can fix it for you.

Had a few questions about which sports were and weren’t currently available on the Athleon Playbook creator.

As of Valentine’s Day, 2008:

Hockey, Lacrosse, Basketball, Water Polo, Soccer, Volleyball, and Rugby are up and ready for you to create plays on.

Football, Field Hockey, Roller Hockey, and Club Ultimate will be up as requests for playbooks in these sports come in. (Football, we’re holding off on you until we get the playbook beta ready for release).

If you want playbooks in a specific sport please send me an email