How to use OnDeck Digital!
Notes for baseball operations and development personnel
You probably just partnered with OnDeck Digital and need some clarification on its functionality. Let's get started.
Not every evaluation goes the same exact way.
OnDeck Digital therefore has three primary ways to watch the HD video from all covered leagues and tournaments:
- By Game
- By Player
- By Advanced Search
Check Out A Specific Game
You remember scouting a game at the Cape with a unique component to its play. Jump into that game again and confirm your notes.
Look at a Player
This is the norm. You know which players you want to evaluate. Just jump straight to them and see all the games they played in.
Use Our Advanced Search
Look at specific batter pitcher match-ups. How does Phil Bickford do against Ian Happ? Lets see just the throws over 96 mph - which pitchers are ripping those out? Want to see just hits of Chris Shaw when the ball was put in-play? Pose a question and let OnDeck provide you an answer with the supporting video to back it up.
First Page After Login
Use this to search for a player.
Use this to view all games.
Use this to see all your playlists.
Use this to see some help docs.
Use this to access your account.
User this to select a tournament.
User this for an Advanced Search
How to watch an entire game.
Check out this entire game if you ever wanted to.
Our Video Player and Other Features You May Like
Context for this pitch
(who is batting and pitching, pitch velocity, etc)
Select from Multiple Camera Angles or use the Merged View
Slow Motion
Create playlist and/or favorites
Let us know there is a problem with Video tagging or quality
Select Another Clip
Green Balls Mean Put In Play
So a lot is going on.
What've we done so far?
So far we showed how a couple menu items and how you can watch an entire game in condensed clip format. But what about that player view? How does that work?
- You can browse players per team.
- You can start typing a players' name and let autocomplete help you search for somebody
When you've selected that player, up come just the games he played in.
Instead of scrolling across that entire games grid searching for games that the player you care about might have played in, just have us show you what matters to you.
Let's come back to the lite-search later
And instead for now, lets focus on what it looks like when you click on a game from this Player view vice last time from the games view.
The Video When You've Searched for a Player
I am hoping that most of this looks familiar. It's the same exact layout, with the same exact features, but look at the bottom of the screen.
Every clip that'll be played is just of the player you were searching for. You can watch every at bat in a row of the criteria you wanted to see.
What about that Lite -Search thing you alluded to
Lite-search differs from Advanced search in that you just want to drill deeper into our database to find clips on one player. For that one player look at some characteristics [more on advanced search later].
So you can watch every pitch by itself
Or pull all these clips into one video player stream to play one after another
Advanced Search
Much of this has come at the requests of our earliest MLB adopters. We appreciate the feedback and like rolling out new ways to analyze video and data.
The Advanced Search Console
Search for clips with this pitcher
Search for clips with this batter
If you didn't plug in a pitcher and batter then this allows you to search more broadly, maybe see how Bickford does against all right handed batters vice just Happ.
Check out all the clips in a row.
or check them out individually
Save Clip Reels or Group Specific Plays (Happ - Positive, Happ - Negative, Bickford Strike Outs, etc)
Up above you can see the playlists you've already created. These playlists can be exported and downloaded. Save the top playlists to a computer if you like in the event of an emergency on game draft day. The video is yours.
You can add videos to a playlist by clicking the star button and selecting an existing playlist or creating a new one.
What's a playlist do for me?
This is the primary deliverable for most teams research projects. If an analyst is asked to tack down clips which show worst pitching performances of a player, have them save that work to a playlist. Come back later and compare that analysis to validate assumptions or prove a point. This allows scouts and analysts to back up a story.
Watch entire playlist with all the clips in a row like a big movie.
If you really need to download the playlist to a single file instead of just watching it online, click this button. Depending on the number of clips it could take between 1 minute and several hours.
Downloads
Its convenient to watch the clips at OnDeckDigital.com because of the searches, playlists, social sharing, etc. But sometimes you just want the advice of a colleague who is computer savy. Mail them a DVD with some clips or send them an email with a clip.
Thanks For Your Time
Please let me know if I missed anything that you care about by emailing support@ondeckdigital.com
How to use OnDeck Digital [MLB Evaluator Edition]
By Scott Hutchins
How to use OnDeck Digital [MLB Evaluator Edition]
Notes for baseball operations and development personnel.
