A tag dimension is one question about a play. A tag value is an answer. Down is a dimension; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th are its values. Every play can carry values from as many dimensions as apply.
The system dimensions are there from day one, but most start empty on purpose — your situational language is yours. Add the values you actually say out loud on Tags.
The ones coaches ask about
- Distance Bucket — the distance-to-go ranges you group calls by, e.g. short (1–3), medium (4–7), long (8+). Set them to the buckets your staff uses.
- Personnel — your grouping notation, usually the running-back-and-tight-end count: 11, 12, 21, and so on.
- Situational — open-ended labels for anything the fixed dimensions don't cover: 2-minute, backed up, four-minute, goal line.
- Offensive / Defensive Formation Faced — the look this play is designed against. This is what lets you pull up everything you have versus a 4-3 on a Tuesday.
Finding plays again
The Plays list filters by side, type, formation faced, and situation. For anything else — including dimensions you invented yourself — use Filter by any tag, which filters across every dimension at once.
Tagging pays for itself three times: filtering the library, auto-filling call sheets, and the self-scout report. An untagged play only ever does the first thing a play does.