Connecting Players to Professional Athletes to Receive Evaluations

• US 20140081435A1
• Filed: 09/17/2012
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Coached By Pros, LLC
• Original Assignee: Coached By Pros, LLC
• Inventors: Wagner, Jadon
• Application Number:
  US13/621,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20140081435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/91
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations

Abstract

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for connecting players to professional athletes to receive evaluations from the professional athletes regarding the players'"'"' abilities within a sport. The present invention can be embodied as a website that allows a player to select one or more participating professional athletes to review video of the player, and receive evaluations from the professional athletes regarding the abilities of the player. In this way, a player can receive an evaluation from an expert at the player'"'"'s position or role within a sport. Such evaluations can be used by the player to continue improving his abilities, as well as to promote the player to recruiters at higher levels within the sport.

Claims

1. A method, performed by a server computing system, for connecting players to professional athletes to receive evaluations, the method comprising:

receiving, by the server computing system, profile information of a player of a sport, the profile information including one or more videos of the player playing the sport;

providing the profile information to a first professional athlete in the sport;

receiving, from the first professional athlete, an evaluation of the player based on the first professional athlete viewing the one or more videos of the player playing the sport; and

providing the evaluation to the player.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, to the player, a plurality of professional athletes that are available to provide an evaluation; and

receiving, from the player, a selection of the first professional athlete to perform the evaluation.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the profile information includes a position in the sport played by the player, and wherein each the plurality of professional athletes that are available to provide an evaluation are selected to be displayed to the player based on a position that the professional athlete has played in the sport at a professional level.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the position that the professional athlete has played is the same as the position played by the player.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the availability of a professional athlete to provide an evaluation is based on a number of evaluations the professional athlete has provided during a specified time period.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information further comprises one or more of:

the player'"'"'s school;

the player'"'"'s graduation date;

the player'"'"'s height;

the player'"'"'s weight;

the player'"'"'s position in the sport;

the player'"'"'s jersey number;

or

the player'"'"'s grade point average.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, by the server computing system, a profile page from the player, the profile page including the profile information, the profile page further providing access to the evaluation.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the profile page further includes statistics of the player.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluation includes feedback for a plurality of areas of the sport.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluation includes a score for a plurality of areas of the sport.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluation includes a rating for the player.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the rating is based on a score for a plurality of areas of the sport.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile information includes a position in the sport played by the player, and wherein providing the profile information to a first professional athlete in the sport further comprises:

generating an evaluation form that includes a plurality of areas relevant to the position played by the player, and user interface elements for providing feedback for each of the plurality of areas.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the feedback further includes a score for each of the areas.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the evaluation form further includes one or more user interface elements for providing a rating for the player.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the feedback further includes video commentary of the first professional athlete.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the feedback further includes links to instructional content regarding a particular area in which the first professional athlete determined the player can improve.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluation includes a rating of the player, the method further comprising:

determining that the rating exceeds a specified threshold; and

providing the evaluation of the player to a recruiter at a higher level of the sport based on the rating exceeding the specified threshold.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the specified threshold comprises a percentile rank of the rating against ratings of all players of the position that have received evaluations.

20. A computer storage media storing computer executable instructions which when executed implement a website for connecting players to professional athletes to receive evaluations, the website implementing a method comprising:

receiving profile information of a player of a sport, the profile information including one or more videos of the player playing the sport, and a position that the player plays in the sport;

identifying one or more professional athletes that have played the position at the professional level;

displaying the identified one or more professional athletes to the player;

receiving, from the player, a selection of a first of the one or more professional athletes;

generating an evaluation form that includes the one or more videos of the player, and a plurality of areas relevant to the position for which the first professional athlete is to provide feedback;

sending the evaluation form to the first professional athlete, including displaying the one or more videos to the first professional athlete;

after the one or more videos have been displayed to the first professional athlete, receiving, from the first professional athlete, feedback based on the player'"'"'s performance in the one or more videos, the feedback analyzing the player'"'"'s performance in the plurality of areas;

generating an evaluation from the feedback; and

displaying the evaluation to the player.