SoloStats Touch Volleyball 4+

I use SoloStat123 and SoloStat Live; so I’m an ardent SoloStat fan. I believe you don’t know what you don’t know unless you measure it. SoloStat is great for matches, but I tried using it for practices, and it just didn’t work; so I gave up. Something was needed for monitoring practices. Frequently I would go to the Apple Store to search for an app for rating my players in drills and games, especially mini-games, etc. But nothing. Finally now there’s SoloStat Touch Practice. And it’s just that—touch the player and the skill rating. Just two touches and the stat for that skill is collected. Kool. Easy. If you’re rating one player over and over, it’s just one touch—the particular skill rating. On the phone it’s super easy and non-intrusive. You don’t need a bulky iPad, ugh. In fact I rarely use my iPad, as I do nearly everything on my phone. I’m a power user.

SoloStat Touch fits the bill for practices and does it very well. It very easy to setup and to use right out of the “box”. In a very short time you’re up and running collecting detailed stats on your players at tryouts, practices or in scrimmages.

If you decide to narrow your evaluation at tryouts or practices to a few players and a few stats to evaluate, you select just the players and the skills you want to evaluate. The order you select the players is the order that they appear in your template and similarly with the rating. You can quickly select a single player in your subset to focus on one at a time by pinning the rating selection to just that single player. So all you do is stat the skill ratings. After you've selected enough stats on that player, deselect her and select another player to evaluate. It's seamless. This is great for a player repeating the same skill sets. For example, during a match a non-playing teammate could just evaluate the receive ratings of her team. Or a mom would stat her libero daughter passing and digging during a match.

You can built a bunch of templates with relevant skills and players that you can duplicate and modify as necessary for another group of players and skills. Or you might duplicate a template to repeat the same skills on a different occasion; so that you can to view how her numbers are improving over time. Unfortunately one can't copy a template to another roster group. However, I find that if I took a screenshot of my skill rating template, then I can easily and quickly recreate the same layout with an entirely different activity selection or team/roster.

With WebReport the stats are accumulated over some or all of your statting seasons, as you may select which sessions to include in the accumulations. The app does all the heavy lifting.

It's intuitive to use—I hate reading directions. I prefer to figure it out. With this app it’s super easy. Also I like an app that if I haven’t used it in a long time, it’s easy to figure out how to use it again without resorting to heroics to get back on task. However after you've mastered the basics it’s recommended that you read the instructions to pick up some nuances that you may have missed or that may make stat taking easier.

I highly recommend Touch Practice. Now there is something that makes statting tryouts and practices, easy. Go for it. VBNE1?

We were waiting for an app just like this. Solo Stats Touch is a great tool. It gives us the opportunity to measure and evaluate progress in our practice gym and it allows us to do it in real time!

This app is the glitchiest stat app ever. Huge delay between taps on screen before cursor reappears, save option has no response, back button works never. Basically it seems like this is in the App Store, but not yet done being built. Crap app for now at least, stay away, don’t waste your time loading your team info, it will just freeze on you.