Coaches
Set up your team and install your plays
Everything a coach does, from the first sign-up to seeing who knows the playbook.
Create your account
Sign up with your email, choose “Coach or team staff”, then “Set up a new team”. Name the team, say whether your players are girls, boys or mixed, and pick your title: head coach, assistant coach or team manager.
Add your plays
Open the library on the Plays tab and add the plays you run. Rename any of them to what your team calls it. That name is used everywhere your players see it.
Set priorities
Sort plays into Must know, Know it and Extra, and mark one or more as this week’s focus. Players see the focus at the top and know where to start.
Share your team code
Your 6-character code is on the Plays tab. Players and parents enter it after they sign up. That only asks to join: you approve each person on the Roster tab before they see anything.
Coach the steps
Open any play and study it step by step. Add a note to a step, answer questions in each step’s discussion, and pin the drawing that explains it best.
Track who knows what
The Roster shows XP, runs and mastery for every player. A spot is mastered when a player finishes it with every read right on the first try.
Tips
- Add your schedule on the Schedule tab. Players and parents answer whether they are coming. See “Use the team schedule” below for every step.
- Download any play as a PDF play sheet for practice or the bench.
- Turn the team chat or the play chats on or off from the Plays tab.
- Invite assistant coaches and managers from the Roster with a one-time staff invite code.
Team managers
Run the team alongside the coach
Team managers get the same staff tools as the coach, with their own title.
Join with a staff invite
Ask the head coach for a staff invite code (they make one on the Roster tab). Sign up, choose “Coach or team staff”, then “I have a staff invite”, and enter it. It works once and runs out after 7 days.
Or set the team up yourself
If you are the one getting things organized, set up the team and choose “Team manager” as your title. You become the team admin and can invite the coaches.
Handle join requests
Everyone who enters the team code waits on the Roster tab. Let in the people you know, turn down anyone you do not, or block someone so they cannot ask again.
Keep the schedule
Add practices and games, see who is coming, and keep scores. Everyone gets reminders in the app before each event. The schedule guide below has every step.
Tips
- Team admins can make other staff admins, change titles and remove staff. A team always keeps at least one admin.
- Every approval, removal and block is written to the access history on the Roster tab.
Players
Learn every play, from every spot
A few minutes a day on your phone and you will know where to be before the coach draws it up.
Join your team
Sign up, choose “Player” and enter the 6-character code from your coach. You will be in as soon as the coach approves you.
Pick a play and a spot
Start with the plays marked Must know and this week’s focus. Choose your spot (1 to 5), the defence, and which side of the floor.
Make the reads
Each step shows what the defence is doing and asks what you do. Get it right and the court plays it out. Get it wrong and it tells you why, then you try again.
Study the play
Below each play, every step is drawn out with the right read for all five spots. Use it before a run or after a mistake.
Ask and draw
Not sure about a step? Open its discussion, ask the team, and draw your question on the court.
Tips
- Learn every spot, not just yours: the first perfect run at a new spot earns the most XP.
- Run a play every day to build your streak.
- Change the speed to Slow while you learn a play, then Fast once you know it.
- Add MyBasketballIQ to your home screen from your browser’s share menu so it opens like an app.
Parents
Follow your child’s team
Parent and guardian accounts are read-only, so you can keep up without adding to the noise.
Ask to join
Sign up, choose “Parent / Guardian” and enter the same team code the players use. The coach approves you.
Answer for your child
On the Schedule tab, tick your child (or each of your children) under Your children, then tap Going, Maybe or Not going on each event. The schedule guide below shows every step.
Read along
You can read the team chat and every play discussion. You cannot post, and nothing posted can be quietly removed.
Practise together
Run the plays yourself to help your child learn them. Parent runs are not scored.
Schedule
Use the team schedule
Practices, games and who is coming. How staff, parents and players each use the Schedule tab.
Staff: add events
On the Schedule tab, tap Add event. Pick practice, game, tournament or event, then the date, start and end time, where, and when to be there early. Games and tournaments also take the opponent and home or away.
Staff: repeat a practice
Under Repeat, choose every week for 4 to 26 weeks. Each week is its own event, so you can change or cancel one without touching the others.
Staff: read the roll call
Each event shows how many are going, maybe, not going or have not answered. Tap See who for names, reasons, and who answered. You can set an answer for any player from that list.
Staff: cancel and score
Cancel event marks it cancelled for everyone and keeps the answers. After a game starts, tap Enter score to record the final score.
Parents: answer for your children
Under Your children, tick your child or each of your children and tap Save. Then tap Going, Maybe or Not going for each child on every event, and add a reason if you like.
Players: answer for yourself
Tap Going, Maybe or Not going on each event. For Maybe or Not going you can pick a reason and leave a note for your coach.
Everyone: add it to your calendar
At the bottom of the Schedule tab, tap Get my calendar link, copy it, and add it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Your calendar updates when events are added, moved or cancelled.
Tips
- Only coaches, staff and school administrators see reasons and notes. So do the player and a parent who answers for them.
- Pick when to be reminded: the day before, two days before, two hours before, or not at all. Reminders show in the app, on the bell and in your calendar.
- Players and parents can change an answer until the event starts. After that, staff can still change it.
- A coach can turn calendar links off for the whole team. Links already made come back when it is turned on again.
Drills
Plan practice with drills
A drill library matched to your plays, and practice plans built from it. How staff, players and parents use the Drills tab.
Staff: say how many players you have
On the Drills tab, enter the number at practice, or tap Next practice or Whole roster. The list keeps the drills that work with that many.
Staff: find drills for your plays
Drills that prepare the team for its own plays come first, each showing which plays. Use Goes with to see the drills for one play, and How to run it for the set-up, steps and coaching points.
Staff: start a practice plan
Tap New practice plan, or Plan this practice on a practice in the Schedule tab. Pick the practice it is for and how long it runs.
Staff: build it
Tap Build it for me for a warm-up, skill work for your plays, team work and a finish. Or tap Add to plan on any drill. Change the minutes, the order, the play each block is for, and add notes.
Staff: save and print
Save the plan, then Download as PDF for a run sheet with how to run each drill. A practice on the schedule shows a Practice plan button once it has one.
Players and parents: read the plan
Open the Drills tab, or tap Practice plan on a practice in the Schedule tab, to see what the team is working on and how each drill runs.
Tips
- Every drill lists the fewest and most players it works with. A drill that does not suit the number you planned for is flagged in the plan.
- Mark a play as this week’s focus on the Plays tab and Build it for me plans around it first.
- Everyone on the team can read a plan. Only coaches and staff can write, change or delete one.
Players
How XP works
Players earn XP every time they finish a run. The points reward getting reads right and learning new spots.
| Read right on the first try | +10 |
|---|---|
| Read fixed on a later try | +3 |
| Finish the play | +20 |
| Perfect run (every read right first time) | +30 |
| First perfect run at a new spot | +50 |
The first three runs a day at one spot on one play earn full XP. After that, runs at that spot earn a quarter, so the leaderboard rewards learning every position rather than repeating one. Train on back-to-back days to build a streak.
Help
Troubleshooting
I entered the team code but cannot see the team.
The coach or a team manager has to approve you first. You will see “Waiting for the coach” until they do. The screen updates by itself.
It says “Too many tries”.
To keep teams safe, codes can only be tried a few times in a row. Wait a few minutes, check the code with your coach, and try again.
I am on more than one team.
Tap the logo to go Home. Every team you are on is listed there with its new messages. Tap a team to switch to it.
How do I leave a team?
Open the menu under your name and choose Leave. A team admin has to hand on their admin role to someone else first.
Can the plays say “he” or “they”?
Yes. The coach sets the team to girls, boys or mixed, and every play and message reads “she”, “he” or “they” to match.
Ready when you are.
Free for every team. Set up takes about five minutes.