Your whole game on one timeline

Film tools mostly organise by player. Here is everyone's line, click a name to see their clips. It makes sense, because that is how a box score is shaped.

It also hides the thing you most want to find.

Games go wrong in stretches, not in plays

Very little that decides a game is a single possession. It is four possessions where the offence stopped moving, a quarter where the same player got beaten backdoor three times, a run that started with one bad decision and snowballed.

Sorted by player, that pattern is scattered across five different lists and invisible in all of them. The information is present and unreadable.

Sorted by time, it is obvious the moment you look, because the red marks cluster in one five-minute window.

So Reel sorts by time

Every decision sits at its real timestamp along the length of the game, colour-coded by whether it was a good read, a neutral one or a mistake. Clicking one jumps the film to a couple of seconds before it happened, so you watch the play rather than scrub for it.

• Filter to just the mistakes, to find what to work on.
• Filter to just the good reads, which is the honest version of a highlight reel.
• Jump to any moment without scrubbing through a two-hour upload.

It only shows what it could read

The timeline contains what was logged, which is not every possession. Stretches where the camera lost the floor, or the footage was too tight to tell who was who, are simply not there.

Which is the honest caveat on all of this: the timeline is only as complete as the footage underneath it, and that part is up to whoever is holding the phone.

Paste a link to a full game and the timeline builds itself alongside the report.