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Advanced Play Calling

If you want a more advanced system to call plays, you can use the actual numbers attached to the routes on the passing tree to call your receiver routes (refer to passing tree for routes and the numbers associated with them). You are still calling your receiver routes from left to right. Instead of designating the receiver and the route he/ she will run, you call out a sequence of numbers that tells the receiver which route to run.


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Now this play would be called:
Trips Right – 999 – Center Arrow

Instead of:

Trips Right – Left Fly – Middle Fly – Right Fly – Center Arrow


The key to using this numeric system is to ensure that each receiver knows their position within the formation.
  • The first number is the left receiver
  • The second number is the middle receiver
  • The third number is the right receiver


Important Reminders:
  • • You will continue to call the routes (without using numbers) for the running back (when necessary), and the center.
  • • If you are using a two-receiver formation, then the play call should only be two digits rather than three.


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