A proposal to deploy PitchTrack at Plateau United for the coming NPFL season: a three-lens fixed camera rig on your touchline, a match report in the coach's hands the next morning, and per-player physical output across the whole campaign — run end to end by us, as a managed service.
Deliverable 01 — the match report
One page per match, written to be read by a coach rather than an analyst. It answers the questions a manager actually asks after a game — who had the ball, where the game was played, how hard each side worked, and where the shape broke — and it withholds any figure it could not measure rather than estimating one.
Possession across the match and in rolling windows, carrying a confidence interval rather than a decimal that implies precision nobody has. In the published report the two sides finished level — 50.1%, interval 47.8–52.4.
Territory per side in metres, the centroid each team defended around, and the zone-control map below. Not a heat map of one team — a comparison of both, square by square.
Where each side sat across the width and the length, how the block shifted between halves, and how hard each side worked to hold it — distance, high-intensity share, top speeds.
Zone control — one square per patch of pitch, shaded towards whichever side occupied it more. Not a heat map of one team; a comparison of both.
Read straight off it: the red side owned the middle third and the far flank, while the blue side held both touchlines and the corners. Squares with too little data to call are left unshaded rather than filled in.
The hardware
A sealed head on a mast behind the touchline, recording all three lenses to a card on board. No camera operator, no tracking shot, no laptop at the pitch. It is switched on before the warm-up and collected after the whistle; everything else happens back at base.
Runs off a small generator or a battery pack over a 1.5 mm² supply run. It does not need mains at the pitch.
None required on match day. Footage is written to the card on board and carried back; nothing is uploaded from the ground.
A full match is about 63 GB across three lenses. Cards are sized with headroom and swapped between fixtures.
Two of ours on match day — one to set up and aim, one to run the capture. Your staff do nothing.
Deliverable 02 — per-player analytics
The team report needs no identities. Player numbers do — and identity is the hard part of tracking football from a fixed camera, because a player who walks behind another comes back out as a stranger. Our answer is to stop naming tracks and start naming shirts: an operator names your eleven once, and the software keeps each shirt pointed at whoever is currently carrying it.
Left, every body found and followed — four already named, the rest still waiting for one, and anyone on the grass who is not playing marked as such and left out of the numbers. Right, the same players top-down on the pitch in metres, with the ground each has covered drawn around them. Corrections the operator makes carry forward and back through the match.
A hosted club dashboard, one login per member of staff, with a lite view for the head coach and an analytical view for the fitness staff. The same numbers, two depths.
This step has a human in it, and will for this season. Slide 07 is the full account of what that means and where it is still weak.
Next step
The pilot rig is already built and the crew is already trained. Nothing here needs a long procurement.
Half a day, no cost, no commitment. We measure the ground, confirm where a 5 m mast can stand, and tell you honestly whether the stadium geometry gives full pitch coverage. If it does not, you find out before you have paid anything.
Send us the confirmed fixture list and we replace every assumption on slide 09 with the actual number of home matches, the actual away travel, and the actual dates. The price moves to firm.
Pick any home fixture. We capture it, process it, and put the full report and the player numbers in front of your technical staff before you sign anything longer.