Progress on The "Opening Plays Script" Book Project

(updated)

Q: What are the difference between a checklist and a script?

A:  While the implementer of a checklist operates on the premise of near-predictability while focusing on greater efficiency, consistency and safety, the strategist uses a script of pre-scripted tactical plays to capitalize on a grander opportunity while assessing the tendencies and the deficiencies of the opponent's defense. 


Status
We are still working on the Scripting Book project. 

Due to other priorities, we have not finished "the second to the final" draft of the book.
  

Following is an abridged listing of what the book will encompass:

• the strategic basics of the opening plays script;
• the technical basics of the opening plays script;
• the different type of opening plays;
• how to assess the competing defense;
• how to transposed the assessed data into the various types of opening plays; and
• how to influence the opponent's defense with the opener script. 

We would not consider writing this book is rocket science or brain surgery unless you are a Dodger fan.  However, the time and the effort that it takes to delineate the specificity for developing the multi-facet opener plays is always the challenge.

The True Motive Behind Scripting The Starter Plays

One of the grandest traditions in the game of coaching football is the practice of scripting one's offensive starter plays, for the purpose of identifying the motives and the methods of their opposition. 

The originator of this moderately simple but innovative practice was Bill Walsh, the architect of the West Coast Offense and the former head coach of the San Francisco Forty Niners between 1979-1989.  

Beside the implementation of the script, Walsh also innovated the short-range passing attack portion of the West Coast Offense and the ratiocination for building a world class organization.

Under the leadership of Coach Walsh, the San Francisco Forty Niners won three Super Bowl Championships.  Some members of his football family have also won Super Bowls and many college bowls.

Click here on the brief history and the technicalities for scripting the starter plays

The Psychology of Scripting the Starter Plays
Before knowing the true motive behind scripting the starter plays, the smart strategist must know the following target points for scripting the starter plays: 

• the technical weaknesses of the opposing defense (field players and sideline players);
• the confirmation of the tactical deficiencies of the opposing defense; 
• the identification of situational proclivity of the defensive playcaller;  
• the approach for staging the opposing defense for adjustment plays and 
• the staging of plays that would exploit their true inefficiencies.

By performing the above five points, the successful strategist is able to influence the opposing defense to be reactive.   

With the right play and the proper execution, this "real time" process enables the offensive coordinator to know when to call the game-changing play.  

(More to come.)

The Intricacies of Scripting Plays  
To properly develop the script of starter plays, the offensive coordinator must have the drive to knowing each and every technical deficiencies of the defense and possessed the mindset to measure and manipulate the defensive play caller and the defensive team who are operating on the field.  

When the script is working, the offensive coordinator and his scouting team begin to notice the confirmation of the targeted defensive player's base tendencies in various tactical situations (i.e., the "down and distance" situations, etc.) and their reactions to certain offensive formations, alignments, shifts and motions.

The Question of the Day

One of the unique challenges of running a scripted play while adjusting to the constant shifting of the defensive line and the constant threat of delayed blitzes and multiple blitzes from different directions. As a strategic thinker, do you know how to capitalize on that?

Side Notes
Connecting the principles from the Sunzi's essay to the process of scripting is a metaphysical challenge for the amateurs. Having the drive to seeing the Big Tangible Picture while possessing the technical foundation of strategic thinking is the key to building a good starter script.

The alpha fundamental to becoming successfully competitive is to properly assessing the strategic situation while performing one or more of the following points:

• Building the starter script and the master script of plays on the strengths and the weaknesses of players on both sides
• Implementing the starter script properly;
• Knowing when to adjust to and from the starter script; and 
• Convincing the offensive team to believe in the tangibility behind it.

The Final Note
We will publish our "Scripting" book sometime in the future.

Strategists! Celebrate The World Creativity Day. (It Is Now World Creativity and Innovation Week)

(updated: 04.19.15)

There is no more World Creativity day.  . . .  It is now World Creativity and Innovation week.

There are various different ways  to create and innovate.  It is quite depended on the way the innovators think.   . . .  Changing their experience to perceive the information is  always a challenge especially when they think that their perception is correct.

In complex situations, we preferred the practice of viewing "The Singularity of Big Picture" by comprehending the "periphery of the connectivity" that lies within it.

Q: Does that point makes sense to you?

In some instances, creativity could be inspired by positive and negative events.

The real challenge is to create a sound and solid idea  under the stress of time and resources.


Side Note 
It is always fun to create and innovate an new idea. If it does not connect to a current or future need.  The "pseudo" innovative strategist is wasting the employer's time, resources and efforts.

Identifying the marketplace needs should always be the first step.  Determining whether one has the leadership,  the tactics, the resources, the technology and the strategy to innovate an well-thought out product that meets the marketplace is the real challenge.

Too many companies have wasted an abundance  of resources, creating stuff that does not meet the marketplace.  The presumption is that there is a minimum of 9000+ of failures for every one macro success.  ( I am surmising that the number of failures is higher.)

Without ever knowing the range of current and future needs and wants of the marketplace, they operate on the  notion that "we will build it and they will come."    Unless your company is positioned in the top 1% of the marketplace, the risk of succeeding is quite low.


The Compass Process of Seeing the Big Tangible Picture In a Problem
The following set of five steps  is based on the presumption that the problem is complex and difficult to solve.

1. Defining what is the problem
2. Identifying the general factors that operates within the the system that connects to the problem;
3. Determining the particular strategic state of the system;
4. Understanding the configuration within each factor;
5. Determining the capability within the "connective" configuration of the factors
6. Experimenting with the periphery of each component with the option of performing a succession of calculations.

More to come