Drawing a good looking football field and formation

[dwmyers]

I've been playing with Image Magick recently, and realized that I could use it to generate football fields, football formations and do so programmatically.

You can install Image Magick on almost anything. The "language" required to make this work are Windows batch files. I used a batch file (3 actually, one for the field, one for the offense, one for the defense) to generate the image below.

Yes, there is an article on the topic. And from the article, a couple questions I'd love to know the answers to..

Remaining issues: are the hash marks given in the links above at the beginning of the distance from the sideline, at the middle of the distance from the sideline, or at the end of the distance from the sideline? I know it’s at most a 2 foot error, but I’d like to know. Likewise, does anyone know the best font for the numbers one might write on a football field? They’re 6 feet fall, 4 feet wide, and placed so the tip of the number is 9 feet deep into the field.

 

[Route 66]

One of your Corners is giving way too much of a cushion for the WR.

 

[dwmyers]

One of your Corners is giving way too much of a cushion for the WR.

I know, Wade must be coaching the defense .