Play Diagram Compilation Tool for Automated Playbook Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
The preparation of game plan playbooks for sports teams is a time and labor-intensive process due to the need to select, locate, customize, and assemble hundreds or thousands of play and formation diagrams, often requiring cutting, pasting, resizing, and reformatting within visual graphic diagramming tools like Visio or PowerPoint.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that integrates a visual graphic diagramming tool with a play diagram compilation tool, providing a graphical user interface for page layout and diagram compilation functions, allowing for the selective insertion of play diagrams into a tile-based page layout template without requiring the opening of electronic files, facilitating the creation of a user-friendly game plan playbook.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional manual methods are used to assemble play diagrams into game plan playbooks, then customization and formatting control are maintained, but the process becomes extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-organizing play diagrams into a structured electronic library with metadata, categorization, and indexing before playbook assembly is needed. This allows rapid retrieval and insertion during playbook creation without manual searching or formatting work.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates digital copies of play diagrams that can be inserted into playbooks without opening or manually reproducing the original files. The compilation tool maintains references to the source diagrams while allowing bulk insertion and automatic formatting, dramatically reducing assembly time.
2Ease of operation
If individual play diagrams are manually located and inserted into playbooks, then diagram integrity is maintained, but the complexity of managing hundreds or thousands of diagrams increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The diagram compilation tool serves as an intermediary layer between the electronic library of play diagrams and the final playbook documents. It provides a user-friendly interface that handles the complexity of locating, selecting, and inserting diagrams while maintaining diagram integrity through automated processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The compilation tool provides universal functionality for managing large collections of diagrams through standardized operations such as bulk insertion, automatic formatting, and template application. These multi-functional capabilities simplify the user experience while handling complex underlying tasks.
3Stability of the object's composition
If play diagrams are customized and reformatted for each playbook, then visual consistency is improved, but the time and labor required for reformatting increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes formatting templates and style guides in advance that define the visual consistency requirements for playbooks. These pre-configured templates automatically apply consistent formatting, sizing, and layout rules when diagrams are inserted, eliminating manual reformatting work.
Solution Approach 2:
The compilation tool automatically adjusts diagram parameters such as size, position, and formatting based on pre-set templates and consistency rules. This automated parameter adjustment maintains visual consistency across all diagrams in the playbook without requiring manual intervention for each diagram.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for providing integrated play diagram compilation visualization and assembly that includes a visual graphic diagramming tool having a visual workspace for creating play diagrams and an add-on play diagram compilation tool that provides a graphical user interface in combination with the visual workspace of the visual graphic diagramming tool.