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Key solutions for team admins
Save Admin Time
Simplify responsibilities and minimise workload by delegating game roles and data collection.
Reduce parental angst
Minimise Game-Time Disputes with real-time access to detailed reports, enabling open and transparent conversations with parents and coaches.
Oversight of data
Access detailed reports to monitor and identify potential issues quickly – allowing for prompt and effective resolutions.
Keep kids in the game
Reduce player drop-out rates, with oversight of player game time and club environment, ensuring that all junior players have a fair-go.
Retain coaches
Allow coaches to enjoy and focus on coaching with Delegated Game Roles, streamlining their responsibilities.
Implement policy
Simplify game-time compliance and policies, by tracking, monitoring and managing player game-time across every game, and season.
Key Features
Simplify Junior Policy compliance
Experience the convenience of managing Junior game-time policy obligations with intuitive tools that streamline compliance, so you can concentrate on the game, not the parents and the policy.
In-game alerts
Guided player rotation and substitution to achieve Minimum Game Time.
Team organisation
Setup a player colour-coding system to make executing rotations more efficient.
Monitor player time
Track of time in position, zones, injury, assessment, disciplinary and opposition.
Club/league oversight
Manage, monitor and implement policy and facilitate oversight of team data across a season.
Parental Angst
Say goodbye to post-match disputes
Game-time disputes can be challenging for sports admins, coaches, volunteers, and parents alike.
Playing time for junior players is often a source of contention, causing frustration for everyone involved. Perceptions of unfairness—whether real or not—can further complicate matters.
Rookie Me Play and Hub bring transparency and accountability to the process, providing clear oversight of player game time for every period, game, and across the entire season.
This clarity enables quick and transparent conversations between coaches, parents, and administrators, making it easier to address and resolve concerns effectively.
Oversight and Insight
Centralised Data and Insights for Clubs
Presidents, coaching coordinators, football managers, and administrators can access weekly and seasonal reports with just one touch.
Rookie Me Play’s award-winning technology collects a wide range of game-day data—time, scoring, stats, notes, and more—using multiple synced devices.
This data is seamlessly centralised on Rookie Me Hub, offering a single, reliable source for post-match oversight and season-long analysis.
Rookie Me Hub empowers informed decision-making and productive conversations, backed by real data, to drive better outcomes for teams, clubs, and leagues.
Player Engagement
Improve Player Retention
Sports organisations invest heavily in recruiting new players but often face challenges in retaining them.
Global research reveals a 30% annual drop-out rate in junior and youth sports. Players who are frequently benched or limited to specific positions can lose interest, feeling excluded or inadequate.
Rookie Me Hub tracks playing time across every position for the season, promoting player equity and ensuring fair opportunities for everyone. By fostering an inclusive environment that prioritises participation, Rookie Me helps keep more children engaged in the game.
Users of Rookie Me Play have reported remarkable success, reducing annual player churn to well below 20%.
Coach Engagement
Eliminate coaching distractions
Retaining great coaches is no easy task, and coach burnout is a real challenge.
Coaches often lack the time, resources, and support to gather meaningful data, forcing them to rely on memory and guesswork for player and team decisions.
Rookie Me Play solves this by streamlining game-day data collection into a single centralised platform: Rookie Me Hub. This frees coaches to focus on their core role—coaching.
Clubs and leagues can further support coaches by providing tools, real-time data access, and player management features. With comprehensive post-match and season analysis, organisations can demonstrate their commitment to coach development and long-term success.
Volunteer Engagement
Save volunteer time
Outdated pen-and-paper methods create inefficiencies and lead to scattered, inconsistent data.
Rookie Me Play’s award-winning innovations simplify game-day data collection—covering time, scoring, stats, notes, and more—using multiple synced devices.
All data is centralised and accessible post-match through Rookie Me Hub, providing a single, reliable source of truth for game-day and season insights.
With Rookie Me Hub, teams and clubs can make informed decisions and have productive conversations backed by real data, ensuring a smoother and more efficient experience for everyone involved.
Player Welfare
A proactive approach to player well-being
Injury tracking
Measure injury and assessment times, to provide valuable insights for injury prevention and performance optimisation.
Fatigue management
Player threshold alerts, ensure proactive fatigue management, signalling when to substitute players for peak on-field performance.
Player effectiveness
Measure zone time, and time played in different positions to gain a comprehensive understanding of each player's impact on the field.
Player development
Identify strengths and weaknesses, by accessing cumulative data across the season, facilitating data-driven improvement strategies.
Culture
Promote a culture of confidence and camaraderie
Rookie Me Play contributes to team culture by promoting player participation, by not focusing on the importance of the scoreboard. Rookie Me Play facilitates team collaboration and delegation, contributing to a cohesive and confident team environment.
Compliance
Implementing policy
Managing and implementing fair-game-time policies across teams, clubs, and leagues can feel overwhelming.
While many sporting organisations aspire to promote equity and integrity, turning these values into actionable, measurable practices can be challenging.
Rookie Me Hub simplifies this process with comprehensive data tracking. By recording and aggregating game data across the season, admins gain valuable insights and reports to support policy implementation and compliance.
With customisable thresholds, clubs and leagues can easily pinpoint areas for improvement and ensure adherence to established standards, making fair game time achievable and manageable.
The Science
Backed by research
Research Point 1
Lack of game time for a player is a Top 5 contributing factor for disengagement with Australian rules football.¹ The primary reason for participation in alternative sports was based on the opportunity for more game time, more touches during the games and greater scoring opportunities.¹
Research Point 2
It is well established that playing multiple sports from a young age leads to a wider skill set, by extension the rotation of players through multiple positions on the field will likely result in a more well-rounded footballer²,³.
Research Point 3
Stint duration of an individual athlete results in an exponential decay in running intensities i.e., the longer a player is on the field, the greater the decrease in their running output⁴. There is also a strong correlation with overuse injuries and training exposure / volume of exercise, highlighting the need to properly manage an athlete’s playing and training time⁵,⁶.
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View research references
- Agnew, D., Pill, S., & Drummond, M. (2016). Investigating the elements that encourage or inhibit the participation of children and youth in Australian Football. Annals of Leisure Research, 19(1), 27-46.
- Wiersma, L. D. (2000). Risks and benefits of youth sport specialization: Perspectives and recommendations. Pediatric exercise science, 12(1), 13-22.
- LaPrade, R. F., Agel, J., Baker, J., Brenner, J. S., Cordasco, F. A., Côté, J., ... & Provencher, M. T. (2016). AOSSM early sport specialization consensus statement. Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine, 4(4), 2325967116644241.
- Dillon, P. A., Kempton, T., Ryan, S., Hocking, J., & Coutts, A. J. (2018). Interchange rotation factors and player characteristics influence physical and technical performance in professional Australian Rules football. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 21(3), 317-321.
- Ek, A., Kowalski, J., & Jacobsson, J. (2022). Training in spikes and number of training hours correlate to injury incidence in youth athletics (track and field): a prospective 52-week study. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 25(2), 122-128.
- Martínez-Silván, D., Díaz-Ocejo, J., & Murray, A. (2017). Predictive indicators of overuse injuries in adolescent endurance athletes. International journal of sports physiology and performance, 12(s2), S2-153.
Kickstart your season
Available on iPhone and iPad.
Cloud-based with offline support.
Intuitive and guided player alerts.
Monitor injury, assessment and disciplinary time.
Track time played for the opposition.
Manage minimum game time and equal game time.
Manage player fatigue.
Track over 100+ players and team stats.
Customise your own stats.
Private and collaborative note-taking.
Plan mode with queued rotations.
Manageable from Field/Pitch/Court and List view.
Manage the game clock, with time-on capabilities.
Share the load with game role delegations.
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Our Lite plan is always free to use. Premium subscriptions can be purchased in app, or via Rookie Me Hub, to elevate your game-day experience.
