The SIDO Framework: August 2023

Master the blueprint for building and running the best esports team your way.

Parth Naidu

The SIDO Framework for Esports Coaching and Management

The S.I.D.O. framework will give you the tools to scout talent, integrate roster and staff, develop players, and optimize your team for performance.

Your Esports Performance Framework

Coaches that want to design a structure that breaks down the long-term vision for a team and its players into a manageable day-to-day.

Leaders that want to build a program tailored to their specific needs and get the best performance from their staff and players.

Specialists that want to have a meaningful impact in their role by finding the best way to contextualize and apply their knowledge.

Who this is for

Key Outcomes

You'll develop ways to scout players for their potential compatibility. You'll also learn about the phases teams have to go through before they can reach their performing stage and how to most efficiently get there.

You have talented players but they aren't clicking.

You'll be able to set up practice to separate the goals you want players to learn from the chaos of practice. You will be able to link what you want to train with the best time and structure with which to get the most value.

Practice never goes the way you planned.

You'll walk away with a performance model built from your values that helps you prioritize what problems to tackle first and where you should allocate resources.

You feel overwhelmed by the number of issues you need to solve.

You'll learn about how the industry operates, who the stakeholders are, and what the KPIs are for the various staff roles. You will be able to use this to navigate the best way to have an impact.

You're still deciding where you fit into the ecosystem.

Meet your instructor

We start with some background on the esports industry, the key stakeholders, and how it functions at the pro level and semi-pro level. Then we consider how teams are structured, flaws in the current system, and what's on the horizon.

Esports Basics

We will build a model of player performance and distinguish between in-game metrics and other relevant player traits. Then, we'll go over strategies to test against them in tryouts and interviews.

Scouting

We'll explore the Tuckman Model of Team Development and how to apply the concepts to a newly formed team. Building on this, we'll discuss how to most efficiently align roster and staff on strategic and operational roles and responbilities.

Integration

Development requires an understanding of a person's current status, their desired level, and ways to help them bridge the gap. We're going to do this by sketching a sample curriculum, creating formative assessments, and strategies for how to swap between developmental mindset to a performance mindset.

Development

We'll introduce Cognitive Load Theory and discuss it's impact in esports and use it to create a periodization schedule. Next, we'll consider ways to maximize in-game performance by looking at team style and the power of constraints as well as health, psychology, and other intangibles.

Optimization

Every aspect of the performance framework is interconnected. We're going to take a step back and consider how an entire program can be tailored to your ideas, budgets, and other constraints.

Connecting the Modules

Course syllabus

6x Topic Sessions: Cover a specific topic from the course syllabus for 90 min followed by a 30 min Q&amp;A and discussion on its application for the students in the cohort.

6x Sessions

In order to accommodate students from various time zones and work schedules, the sessions will take place from 9-11am PST. A video library of course topics will be available after the session if you are unable to attend any in person.

Saturdays + Sundays

Course schedule

This course focuses on live workshops and feedback sessions tailored to you.

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