Timely Information for Takedown Scoring and Stats Users

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Budgeting for Next Season

Plan and budget for these items to get more value out of your Takedown investment.

With the scholastic season in the rear view mirror, many teams are already planning for next season. Here are some investments to consider.

External Camera

A game-changer for video. Read about our experience here.

Cost: $100 - $500

Camera Mount

Whether you use the iPad or an external camera for video recording, some sort of stablizing mount is very helpful. Choices include a tripod, monopod and/or a table stand. See examples. Good selection on Amazon.

Cost: $50-$100

External Battery

A life-saver when your iPad’s battery is running low. See example. Great selection on Amazon.

Cost: $50+

Apple AV Adapter

Easiest and cheapest way to use Takedown’s Scoreboard feature. Available for Lightning and USB-C iPad connectors. Don’t forget to get an HDMI cable — Amazon is a good source.

Cost: $50 - $70 for adapter, $10-$20 for HDMI cable

iPad

Upgrade or add another iPad to your Takedown deployment. Amazon and eBay are good sources for used iPads.

Cost: $200 +

Protective iPad Cover

If you drop an unprotected iPad from shoulder height onto a solid floor, the screen will likely crack or worse. A folio cover is cheap insurance. Find a new one on Amazon or eBay.

Cost: $20

Video Subscription

Add a video subscription to your Takedown scoring subscription and reap the benefits of an efficient video workflow.

Cost: $150 annually

Digital Display

For Takedown’s Scoreboard feature, you need an HDMI-equipped display. Schools typically have an inventory of these displays and your school’s gym might already have a compatible wall-mounted display.

Cost: $125 and up, depending on display size.

Bluetooth Scale

Use Takedown’s free paperless, wireless weight recording feature to conveniently track athlete progress toward their weight objective. Takedown is compatible with the Befour PS-6615 scale.

Cost: $700 for scale

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Easy Scoreboard

Use Takedown’s Scoreboard feature to generate a wrestling-specific, high quality, zero-effort scoreboard.

Using the Apple Lightning AV Adapter, it’s easy to create a high quality, wrestling-specific scoreboard.

This support document shows you how.

The two primary applications for this feature are:

Fan scoreboard
Table top scoreboard for wrestlers, coaches and officials

This feature is most often used for a home dual meet though it can be used at any dual meet or tournament.

Scoreboard is another zero-operator feature meaning that no incremental effort is required to generate the scoreboard content. Setup your display, score the wrestling and the scoreboard is auto-generated.

Nice, huh?

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Use Takedown Scoring and Stats and Get These Things for Free

Most of us love "writing the book." When you "write the book" with Takedown, life is better and you'll do less work. Here's why.

I had the pleasure of scoring Boise v. Purdue dual meet last Friday evening.

This was a last minute assignment, but no matter. From scratch, setup took about ten minutes and most of that time was spent scouring the Internet for suitable team logos (thank you, Amanda).

After the last match, I emailed the scorebook and box score to each team’s Sports Information Directors and posted the relevant reports to social media. Both officials praised the scoreboard layout and functionality.

Below are the benefits of scoring a dual meet (or tournament) with Takedown.

Of course, these reports are much more powerful as more events are scored. Trends and tendencies become obvious, post-event analysis is data driven rather than belief based. Your fan base is happier, it's easier to update your website or compose an email update. All the content you need is automatically generated and immediately available. No logging into websites or copying from paper to a spreadsheet.

Score your events with Takedown, instead of with paper and pencil, and get all of these goodies:

Scorebook

Readable, durable, accurate, complete, shareable and branded.

Box Score

Easy to read, available in multiple formats including the text format preferred by newspapers and media outlets.

Scoring Detail

Wrestler scoring, for-against.

Riding Time

Riding time by wrestler, by period and total, for-against.

Short Time Scoring

By wrestler, for-against, 20/15/20/5 seconds remaining in period. This is the 10 second report.

Shot Success Rate

Shots by wrestler, for-against and success rate (takedowns / shots).

Wrestler Profile

Every metric for a wrestler on one page. What college coaches should ask for when recruiting high school wrestlers.

Leadboard

Ranked wrestlers in 19 categories.

Win/Loss Record

By wrestler, duals and tournaments, total and pins.

Seeding

By wrestler, each match, opponent, outcome, event with sorting options.

Schedule

Updated with results.

Takedown LIVE

Fan-focused, real-time scorebook and video on your Apple or Android mobile phone or tablet Free.

Live Results on Twitter

Auto-posted, end-of-period or end-of-match. Team score included. This is a sample of 50+ auto-posted tweets for this dual meet. These results were posted to our Twitter timeline as a matter of convenience. Teams post their results to their own timelines.

Scoreboard

Professional , wrestling-dedicated, referee and athlete friendly. Wired or wireless. Optionally deploy a mirrored, second screen for your announcer.

Mirrored secondary scoreboard for announcer

Use Takedown to "do the book" and derive a wide range of benefits for coaches, athletes, managers and fans.

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Takedown Scoring and Stats Release 2.1.1

Scoreboard customization is now available. Add logos, team scores...

With release 2.1.1, users can customize the Scoreboard to optionally include:

Team logos
Team score
Wrestler name and record
Opponent name

Here's what these options look like in operation:

Also, Takedown Scoring and Stats can automatically generate the end-of-period buzzer when the match clock winds down to zero.

Here's a Tutorial on configuring these options (includes the buzzer sound, so adjust your speaker volume accordingly):

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Save Money, Impress your Fans with Scoreboard

Turn any digital display into a great looking scoreboard. Perfect for scoring tables or fans in the seats.

Professional and Automatic Wrestling Scoreboard

Takedown Scoring and Stats can turn any digital display into an inexpensive, professional looking, wrestling-specific scoreboard. Here's what it looks like in operation:

To learn how to setup a scoreboard, click here.

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Takedown Makes the Big Time

Stanford University versus Northwestern University Wrestling Dual Meet

Fun time yesterday at Stanford University's Burnham Pavillion watching Stanford v. Northwestern dual meet. Stanford uses Takedown to score their matches and generate performance statistics. Yesterday, they kept their expensive pedestal scoreboard in the closet and instead used Takedown's inexpensive and automatically generated scoreboard on their 90" wall-mounted flat panel display.

Here it is in action. With :49 left in the first period, no score in the 184 pound match.

Another match, first period with 2:09 to go, NWU up 2-0 with :38 of riding time advantage. NWU is on top ( as indicated by the chevron under the NWU score).

And, here's the Stanford wrestling manager using Takedown. See the green cable? That's the full extent of the setup -- run an HDMI cable from your iPad to your flat panel display. Stanford's display is huge, but the setup is the same no matter how large (or small) your panel. Also, instead of having one person run the scoreboard and another person doing the scoring, only a single person is required since the scoreboard content is automatically generated by Takedown.

Stanford also used Takedown to stream the action to their 6,000+ Twitter fans:

Twitter Feed - Stanford University versus Northwestern University Wrestling Dual Meet

The outcome for the Cardinal wasn't great but Takedown had an outstanding debut on the big stage.

What about your program? If Takedown works for two premiere Division I NCAA wrestling programs, think it'll work for your high school or middle school program?

Be the coolest team in your conference, download Takedown from the App Store today and throw your paper scorebook in the trash.