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Group #14 - theCombine

COMBINE BACKGROUND

The National Football League Scouting Combine began in 1982

Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that 5.2 million people watched the 2010 NFL Combine

Football players perform drills, tests, and interviews for NFL scouts

PROBLEM

How to make a personal experience for the audience?

Virtually no combine simulations available to the public

Average person does not have available resources to recreate these drills for themselves

PricePhysical Space

OUR SOLUTION

Create an application to bring the combine experience to everyone in a way that is personal, fun, sociable and most importantly, efficiently available

OBJECTIVES OF OUR IOS APPLICATION1. Technically Sufficient

a) Prevent the application from crashingb) Loading takes minimal amounts of timec) Results are accurate

2. Visually Appealinga) Easy to readb) Color scheme

3. Sociala) Link to website where videos and thoughts can be sharedb) Upload results directly to Twitter

4. Personally Motivatinga) Track recordsb) Comparisons to professional/collegiate athletes

SWIFT XCODE “Swift is the result of the latest research on programming

languages, combined with decades of experience building Apple platforms.”

Specifically designed for creating iOS applications

Parameters similar to Objective-C, but cleaner syntax

FLOW DIAGRAM(Loading Screen)

Main Menu

Vertical JumpBroad Jump 40 Yard Dash Mental Aptitude

TestBench PressCalculator

Settings

Drill Descriptions Link to test

On website

StopwatchDrills

StopwatchJump

SensorGPS

TrackerPush-Up toPress Calc.

Compare toAthletes (Link)

Share toTwitter

THE APPLICATION – MENU

Side bar lists options

THE APPLICATION – 40 YD. DASH

Place Pin Tap “Go” GPS times how long it took for the

user to travel between the two points

THE APPLICATION – VERTICAL/BROAD JUMP

Tap “Go” 5 second delay to give user time to place

phone in pocket App. measures and outputs result from

user jumping

THE APPLICATION – STOPWATCH DRILLS

Drills include shuttles and 3-Cone drill Tap “Start” Timer counts until user taps “Stop” Tap “Stop” again to get rid of the

previous recording

THE APPLICATION – LINK TO WEB

Social community Mental Aptitude Test Player Comparisons The website will include tweets about

our application

THE WEBSITE

The comparison to other athletes and the community for users to come together and socialize can be found here:

http://thecombineonline.com

ISSUES ENCOUNTERED

Accelerometer/barometer difficult to accessSolution: Continuing work on vertical and broad jumpSolution: Use GPS tracking to record results from the 40

yard dash

Difficult to create a database to store recordsSolution: Allow users to share directly to Twitter which will

serve as a catalog to store user results

BUSINESS POTENTIAL

Possible marketing to the National Football League

Possible marketing to Under Armour, the current owners of the rights to the NFL Combine

Outside advertising on the application itself