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Game Prep: First
Football Laptop Playbook & Analysis
System
Today, every NFL player, head coach,
assistant coach, scout, analyst and
official is given a laptop playbook when
they sign a contract with their team or
the League Office. The first NFL
application of a laptop playbook to
integrate game video, practice video,
statistical data, coaches notes, play
diagrams, playbook information, game
plan information and scouting reports
was created by Kai D. Patterson.
Recently Microsoft paid the NFL over
$400 million to provide
Microsoft Computerized Playbooks,
when the NFL previously paid Kai
Patterson for his computerized playbook,
which he invented. See:
Purchase Confirmation
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First Version of Game Prep
Kai Patterson at Giants Stadium
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Kai Patterson founded KDP Digital Systems,
Inc. and developed the first football
computer and video game analysis system
called Game Prep, which was purchased by
the NFL. Game Prep was
revolutionary because it enabled a
professional, college or high school, to
integrate their information on a desktop
or server, and upload the information to
laptops for coaches, players, and scouts
that analyze personnel and opponents.
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Game Prep enabled
coaches to select any play, formation or part of a
formation, by down, distance, position on the field,
clock time, quarter, series or hash mark. Game
Prep enabled opposing formations, or opposing schemes to
be viewed against each other and split screen video to
compare both schemes at the same time.
Game Prep was developed with the
assistance of several NFL Players, NFL Coaches and
League Executives. Game Prep was ahead of its
time, before modern day coaches became computer savvy
and enabled all functions to also be executed with 5
keys for simplicity. Joe Morris, Otis Anderson,
Stephen Baker and Joey Smith assisted Kai Patterson in
the development of Game Prep by providing him with an
in-depth understanding of the game.
"Game Prep was marketed to the NFL
when most coaches, owners and players were not used to
using a computer to analyze their opponents, and plays",
says Kai Patterson. "The concept was initially
resisted by several teams, until the New York Giant's
Director of Information Systems, Jon Berger assisted Kai
Patterson by introducing Game Prep to several coaches
and coordinators. Cam Cameron, who was the
quarterback coach of the Washington Redskins, was the
first coach to use Game Prep and assisted in the
development of its diverse coaching tools.
"I owe the success of Game Prep to
several investors and people in the NFL, but I am most
grateful to Gene Washington for purchasing Game Prep for
the NFL League Office to analyze penalties, fines and
on-field misconducts", says Patterson. His company
KDP Digital Systems, initially received requests to
purchase Game Prep from NFL teams, before the NFL's
Competition Committee halted the sale of the application
to evaluate its fairness advantages. Dr. Lem
Burnham, who was the NFL's Director of Player Programs
also
endorsed Game.
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"The NFL's evaluation almost
bankrupted the company, until Gene Washington placed an
order for the League Office that enabled Patterson to
generate a sale to the NFL, while the application was
being evaluated. Less than six (6) months after
receiving Game Prep, the League Office approved the sale
of the application. Patterson used Game Prep's
technology to create
Real-T-Tech
to generate additional revenue
to save KDP Digital Systems, which also led to the
creation of the first virtual tour real estate
application.
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Special Thanks to Those Who Assisted in Game
Prep's Development and Success
In addition to
thanking Peter Jordan who served as the Chief Operating
Officer, and Joey Smith who served as the Director of
Analysis, a special thanks goes out to all of the many
individuals who assisted in the implementation of Game
Prep. "I must mention that Joe Morris is one of
the most intelligent individuals I have ever worked
with, and was very reliable". "I also must also
give Stephen Baker credit for helping me derive the
concept, and thank Otis Anderson for attending numerous
presentations to market Game Prep", says Patterson.
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Endorsement: Letter by NFL's Director of Player Programs
to endorse Kai Patterson's NFL Computerized Playbook,
and Game Analysis System, which was the first system to
integrate, statistics, diagrams, tendencies and video to
evaluate video by "down & distance" against opponent's
schemes, formations, blitzes, blitz pickups, blocking
schemes, patterns, and plays.
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