Format: a physical stencil, shipped to you.

You are drawing a look on the whiteboard before practice and half your circles came out as ovals and the line splits ended up wherever your hand landed. It gets the point across, mostly. It also takes longer than it should and it looks like it took longer than it should.

The stencil gives you clean, consistent shapes for offense and defense, so a formation or a front takes seconds and comes out the same every time you draw it. It works on a call sheet, a scouting report, a practice plan, or a handout you are putting in a player's hands.

Who it is for: any coach who still draws football by hand. Offense, defense, special teams, any level.

What it is not: it is not software and it is not a play-drawing app. It is a physical tool for paper and whiteboards.

What to do next

• Formations worth drawing with it: 98 Shotgun Wing Formations
• More formation answers: 90 Power Gun Formations
• Somewhere to put them: Play Call Sheet