The Playbook is your program's library of plays and drills. It seeds with a starter library you can use as-is, customize, or replace. Anything in the playbook is available to the AI staff — Coach X cites plays in game briefs, Coach Bloom assigns drills in dev plans, and so on.

Plays vs. drills

Two tabs at /playbook:

Plays (/playbook/plays) — half-court and full-court sets, ATOs, BLOBs, etc.
Drills (/playbook/drills) — practice drills for skill work, conditioning, situations

Each library has the same shape: a filterable index, two view modes (grid and table), and a creation form.

Browsing and filtering

Both indexes share a consistent filter bar:

Search by name or description
Type / Category filters (Play Type for plays, Drill Category for drills)
System Fit — offensive and defensive system tags
Skill Focus — what skills the play or drill develops
Use Cases (drills only) — Team practice or Player Development

Active filters appear as removable chips so you can see what's narrowing the list.

A banner appears if your library is still entirely seeded (you haven't added or customized anything). Customizing — even small edits — makes generation feel a lot more like your program.

Creating a play

Click + on the Plays tab. Fields:

Name, Description
Play Type (required) — chip select
System Fit / Defensive System Fit / Skill Focus — multi-select chips
Action Sequence — step-by-step builder; add as many steps as you need, drag to reorder
Diagram — opens the diagram editor (see below)

Creating a drill

Click + on the Drills tab. Fields:

Name, Description
Drill Category (required) — Footwork, Ballhandling, Shooting, etc.
Intensity (required) — High / Medium / Low
Use Cases (required) — Team and/or Player Dev
Skill Focus, Offensive / Defensive System Fit, Position Focus — multi-selects
Diagram — opens the diagram editor
Coaching Cues — list of teaching points

The diagram editor

Plays and drills can carry a basketball court diagram. The editor opens in a modal and offers:

Court types — full court, half court, or skill-court layouts
Players — add offensive (O+) or defensive (D+) markers
Movement — Cut, Pass, Dribble, Screen, DHO (dribble handoff)
Annotation — text labels and zone highlights
Props — cones, coach marker, shooting machine
Edit controls — selection tool, undo, redo, delete

Drawing snaps to nearby players automatically — click to start a line, click (or double-click) to end. A help popover (?) walks through every tool. Save closes the editor and attaches the diagram to the play or drill.

Multi-frame diagrams

A diagram can be a single still or a sequence of frames showing how a play unfolds. The frame strip below the canvas lets you:

Click a thumbnail to switch to that frame
Duplicate frame — copies the active frame as the next one in the sequence (a good starting point for the next step)
Delete frame — removes the active frame (disabled when only one frame remains)
Add frame — appends a new blank frame at the end

When viewing a multi-frame diagram outside the editor, Previous frame / Next frame controls and the thumbnail strip let you step through the sequence.

Diagrams flow into the appendix sections of practice plans and game briefs, so anything in your library prints cleanly with its diagram attached — multi-frame diagrams render every frame in order.

Playbook