This page provides an overview of the Player Management, Profiles, Official and Private Players in the Trackman Portable B1.

In order to gain access to the B1 app, you need to have an organization setup through your 
account manager.

Introduction

The Player Management system contains a list of player profiles you can use to attach meta-data to ball tracking events during your practice sessions. The list is private to your organization and can be managed by an admin, analyst, coach or scout role (see User Management, roles, permissions for more details)

You can view the player list both via the Trackman Web Portal and within the Trackman Baseball App via the Menu->more->"Player Management" in upper right corner.

Player Profiles

Each player has a profile with meta data which is used when you tag ball tracking activity during a practice session with your player or client. The data used in the App and to populate player and coach reports and/or data export feeds. The system differentiates between 3 types of players and depending on type you may be able to edit none, some or all elements of a player's profile:

• Roster players:
  • Trackman uses various official sources (MLB, college team websites, etc) to update rosters for pro teams and top colleges on a regular basis during Baseball season.
  • When players are traded, drafted, released or assigned, the Trackman database will be updated including which team/school the player is assigned.
• Official Players:
  • Trackman maintains a database of known players from pro teams, colleges, large amateur/scouting events and some high schools around the world. Player meta data is updated regularly and made available to various Trackman Baseball products.
  • In the Trackman Portable system, you can search this database and then add an official profile to your list of players. This not only saves you time entering/updating information, but also benefits you and the player by assigning data captured across various activities (games, bullpens, showcases) and times (high-school, college and pro) to the same player profile.
  • Lastly, official players are linked to their official playerID (MLB, NPB, college roster ID) which is available to you both in the App, in reports and/or data exports so you can use that PlayerID to link with other data you have on the same player from other 3rd party sources.
• Private Players:
  • If you are conducting a practice session with a player not know to Trackman, then  you can create a new profile you can use in the current and future sessions to ensure all data is linked to the same player.
  • Such profiles are private to your organization; if you create a "Max Slider" profile, no other organizations will be able to see or use the profile.
  • Such profiles will get a Trackman unique playerID which you may use to uniquely identify such player.

Example: An official profile for David Price (MLB ID included) appeared on the Red Sox roster in 2019 and the Dodgers roster in 2020.
Facilities working with him in the offseason could also add him to their player list — visible only to that facility and the player.

To grant a player access to their data, invite them to your organization by adding their email address to their player profile. For more details see User Management, roles, permissions and player data access.

Adding Profiles to your Player List

If your organization is using our Trackman Stadium system, then the player list in the Trackman Portable system will be pre-populated with the rosters for your school, college or pro team. You can not remove any players from your list but you can add new (official or private) players to your list - see below.

Please contact Trackman support if you believe a pre-populated roster list is incorrect/outdated. 

If your organization is a standalone facility, a school, college or pro team that does not have a Trackman Stadium (game) system then your Trackman Portable system will have no pre-populated player profiles and the player list will be empty on day one.

You can search-and-add any official Trackman player or you can manually create new players. Search-and-add players via the Player Management menu tapping the "+ ADD Player" button and entering the (partial) name and then tapping "Add" for one of the matching players in the search result:

If your desired player is not appearing in the search results, then you can create a new player. Note that first-name, last-name, DOB and handedness are all mandatory elements.

Syncing Player Updates in the Trackman Baseball App

After updating your player list in the WebPortal, make sure to synchronize the changes to your iPad:

1. Connect the iPad to the internet.
2. Restart the App — a “Synchronizing Players” message will appear at the bottom of the screen.
3. When complete, open the menu (⋯) in the upper-right corner and select Player Management.
4. Review your player list to confirm the updates.

Adding Players

• You can search and add players from the Trackman database while online.
• Note: This is not available when offline or connected directly to a Trackman B1.

Creating Ad-Hoc Players

Player profiles cannot be edited in the App, but you can create a private ad-hoc player when starting a new session (green button, upper left).

On the line-up screen, you can:

• Select from synchronized profiles, or
• Create a new ad-hoc player

New ad-hoc players created on one iPad will only appear on other iPads in your organization after all devices have synced with the cloud.