Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker | 200 Matches, Performance Analysis & Mini MOT™ | Beyond the Board
🎲 PROFESSIONAL BACKGAMMON CHECKER TRACKER
200 Matches | 14 Strategic Categories | Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis | Mini MOT™
🏆 IT'S TIME TO REVOLUTIONISE BACKGAMMON ANALYSIS!
Bringing Backgammon Performance Analysis into the 21st Century.
Imagine combining the statistical precision of financial market analysis with the strategic understanding of a professional backgammon coach.
Introducing the Beyond the Board Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker.
A comprehensive quantitative and qualitative performance analysis system designed to transform how players measure, understand and improve their checker play.
Created by Connor Dickinson — England International, BMAB Master and professional backgammon coach, this innovative Excel-based training system goes far beyond simply recording mistakes.
It combines detailed statistical analysis, visual performance indicators, structured coaching insights and a personalised development appraisal.
Track Your Errors. Discover Your Patterns. Transform Your Performance.
🎉 SPECIAL WEBSITE LAUNCH OFFER
£29.95
Special introductory price — planned standard price £39.95.
Celebrate the launch of the Beyond the Board Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker with this special introductory offer.
Get the complete quantitative and qualitative performance analysis system, including the Mini MOT™ personal development appraisal, for just £29.95.
Purchase securely through Payhip, with digital delivery of your Excel workbook after successful checkout.
🔵 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS — THE POWER OF NUMBERS
Don't Just Count Your Mistakes. Discover Exactly Where They Occur.
Some backgammon analysis platforms provide basic error counts.
They might tell you that you've made 20 middlegame errors, 10 backgame errors or 15 errors in prime-versus-prime positions.
But what do those numbers actually tell you about the distribution of weaknesses across your game?
The Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker takes your analysis further.
It calculates both the total number of recorded errors and the precise percentage attributable to each of its 14 strategic checker-play categories.
For example, your performance profile might reveal:
- 🔵 15% of your recorded errors occur in Backgames.
- 🔵 12% occur in Prime vs Prime.
- 🔵 8% occur in Holding Games.
- 🔵 7% occur in Blitz positions.
These figures are illustrative. Your own percentages are calculated automatically from your recorded data.
Rather than simply knowing how many errors you've made, you can see exactly how those errors are distributed across your game.
Fourteen Categories. Fourteen Percentage Breakdowns. One Complete Performance Profile.
Every strategic category is represented in the tracker's colour-coded graphical analysis.
The bar charts reveal:
- The total number of recorded errors in each category.
- The percentage of your overall recorded errors attributable to that category.
- Which strategic areas account for the greatest share of your mistakes.
- How your error distribution changes as you record more matches.
See your entire checker-play performance broken down into meaningful numbers, percentages and visual comparisons.
🚦 Traffic-Light Analysis — Not All Mistakes Are Equal
A complementary mirrored bar chart takes your performance analysis one stage further.
Using a clear traffic-light system, it distinguishes between three levels of checker-play error:
- 🟡 Yellow — Small Technical Mistakes: Minor inaccuracies that may indicate opportunities to refine your technique.
- 🟠 Orange — Mistakes: More significant errors that can reveal weaknesses in your strategic decision-making.
- 🔴 Red — Blunders: Serious errors that may be costing you valuable equity and deserve particular attention.
This allows you to distinguish between strategic categories containing numerous small inaccuracies and those where more costly errors are occurring.
A category with relatively few errors may still deserve considerable attention if those errors are predominantly blunders.
Understand not only where your mistakes occur, but how serious they are.
🧠 QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS — THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING
Statistics Tell You What Is Happening. Qualitative Analysis Helps Explain Why It Matters.
Numbers are powerful, but they cannot tell the whole story.
This is where the Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker moves beyond conventional statistical reporting.
Its integrated Mini MOT™ performance assessment system combines your recorded performance information with structured, category-specific coaching insights.
Drawing upon an extensive range of possible assessment combinations across the 14 strategic categories, the Mini MOT™ produces educational feedback reflecting your recorded performance profile and assigned category ratings.
Rather than simply displaying a collection of numbers, it helps you interpret your results in practical backgammon terms.
🏆 Your Personal Backgammon Performance Appraisal
The qualitative analysis helps you:
- Identify strategic strengths and weaknesses across the 14 checker categories.
- Recognise recurring decision-making patterns.
- Understand the strategic principles associated with your areas of difficulty.
- Interpret your statistical results through structured coaching insights.
- Establish clear priorities for future study and development.
Your performance. Your patterns. Your coaching insights.
🎯 THREE AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT — YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Knowing Your Weaknesses Is Only the Beginning.
The ultimate purpose of performance analysis is not simply to identify mistakes.
It's to help you become a better backgammon player.
The integrated Mini MOT™ identifies three priority areas for improvement and provides practical coaching recommendations for each.
For example, if Late Game Contact is identified as a development priority, your appraisal can highlight the strategic decisions associated with that category and suggest what to concentrate on during future study.
Rather than simply telling you that you struggle with holding games, backgames or prime-versus-prime positions, the assessment helps explain which aspects of those situations deserve attention.
This creates a structured development appraisal designed to help you focus your training where it matters most.
From identifying weaknesses to understanding them — and from understanding them to purposeful improvement.
🏆 TWO POWERFUL APPROACHES. ONE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM.
📊 Quantitative Analysis — MEASURE
How many errors have you made? Where do they occur? What percentage falls within each strategic category? How serious are those errors?
🧠 Qualitative Analysis — UNDERSTAND
What do your results suggest about your checker play? Which strategic principles require further attention? What recurring patterns can you identify?
🎯 Personal Development Appraisal — IMPROVE
Which three areas should you prioritise? What should you practise? How can you approach your future training more effectively?
Together, these three stages transform recorded match errors into meaningful performance insights and a focused development plan.
📦 WHAT'S INCLUDED?
- Professional Microsoft Excel workbook (.xlsx).
- Capacity to record up to 200 backgammon matches.
- Detailed checker-play error recording.
- 14 strategic checker-play categories.
- Automated error totals and category percentage calculations.
- Colour-coded performance bar charts.
- Mirrored traffic-light error severity chart.
- Comprehensive performance dashboard.
- Graphical performance analysis.
- Integrated Mini MOT™ qualitative assessments.
- Structured, category-specific coaching insights.
- Three personalised areas for improvement.
- Practical development recommendations.
- Category reference guide and instructions.
- Reusable workbook for ongoing personal performance analysis.
🟢 HOW DOES IT WORK?
Step 1 — Purchase Your Tracker
Complete your purchase securely through Payhip for the introductory price of £29.95.
Step 2 — Download Your Excel Workbook
After successful checkout, Payhip provides access to your digital product files.
Download the Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker to your computer.
Step 3 — Record and Categorise Your Errors
Analyse your matches using your preferred backgammon analysis software, such as eXtreme Gammon (XG).
Enter your match information and classify your checker-play errors using the tracker's 14 strategic categories and severity system.
Step 4 — Explore Your Performance
As you record your data, the workbook calculates error totals, category percentages and graphical performance summaries.
Explore your quantitative analysis alongside the integrated Mini MOT™ qualitative assessments.
Step 5 — Identify Your Areas for Improvement
Use your performance appraisal and three development priorities to guide your future backgammon study.
Analyse. Measure. Understand. Improve.
🎲 WHO IS THIS TRACKER FOR?
Whether you're an improving club player, an ambitious tournament competitor or an experienced player looking to reduce your Performance Rating (PR), the Professional Backgammon Checker Tracker provides a structured approach to understanding your checker play.
It is particularly valuable for players who analyse their matches using eXtreme Gammon (XG) and want to turn those findings into meaningful development objectives.
Rather than allowing valuable information from your analysed matches to disappear into individual reports, you can build a cumulative record of your strategic performance.
Don't just play more backgammon. Learn more from every match.
🔴 IMPORTANT PRODUCT INFORMATION
This is a digital Microsoft Excel workbook, not a physical product. Desktop Microsoft Excel is recommended for full functionality.
The workbook is supplied through Payhip as a digital download after purchase.
The tracker analyses information entered by the user. It does not independently analyse backgammon positions or replace specialist software such as eXtreme Gammon.
Percentages represent the proportion of total recorded checker errors attributable to each category. They do not necessarily represent the likelihood of making an error whenever that type of position occurs.
Qualitative assessments are educational appraisals based on recorded data and assigned category ratings. Their reliability depends on the accuracy and quantity of the information supplied.
Checker-play analysis only. Cube decisions are not assessed in this edition. For a more comprehensive understanding of your backgammon performance, look out for the forthcoming Beyond the Board Backgammon Cube Tracker.
🎲 BEYOND THE BOARD
Think Deeper. Play Smarter. Improve with Purpose.
Designed by Connor Dickinson
England International | BMAB Master | Backgammon Coach