Systems and methods for tracking tag management

A tag manager for configuring an athlete tracking system that tracks a plurality of athletes with a plurality of tracking tags, comprising:

• a processor;
• a wireless transceiver configured for communicating with the tracking tags;
• a memory storing (i) a roster list of the plurality of athletes, (ii) a first list of tag IDs corresponding to a first collection of tracking tags allocated to a first location on the athletes, and (iii) machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, control the tag manager to:
• generate the first list of tag IDs by reading, via the wireless transceiver, the tag IDs from the first collection of tracking tags,
• read, via the wireless transceiver, a tag ID of a tracking tag associated with one of the athletes, and
• associate, in the roster list, the tag ID with the first location on the one of the athletes when the tag ID is in the first list of tag IDs.

A tag manager for configuring an athlete tracking system that tracks a plurality of athletes with a plurality of tracking tags, comprising:

• a processor;
• a wireless transceiver configured for communicating with the tracking tags;
• and
• a memory storing (i) a roster list of the plurality of athletes, (ii) a first list of tag IDs corresponding to a first collection of the tracking tags allocated to a first location on the athletes, (iii) a second list of tag IDs corresponding to a second collection of the tracking tags allocated to a second location on the athletes, and (iv) machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, control the tag manager to:
• read, via the wireless transceiver, tag IDs of corresponding tracking tags within a range of the wireless transceiver, and
• when only two tracking tags associated with one of the athletes have been read:
• associate, in the roster list, first and second tag IDs, of the two tracking tags, with the first and second locations, respectively, on said one of the athletes when the first tag ID is in the first list of tag IDs and when the second tag ID is in the second list of tag IDs.

A method for managing tracking tags of an athlete tracking system that tracks a plurality of athletes with the tracking tags, comprising:

• reading, with a wireless transceiver, a tag ID of one of the tracking tags;
• inserting the tag ID into a roster list of the plurality of athletes to assign the tag ID to one athlete, of the plurality of athletes, associated with said one of the tracking tags;
• and
• communicating with said one of the tracking tags, via the wireless transceiver, to configure said one of the tracking tags with a ping rate stored with the one athlete in the roster list.