Portal HQ

The Transfer Portal has completely changed the landscape of college baseball and softball recruiting, but most programs still evaluate these prospects with fragmented tools and incomplete data. Now, with the introduction of Portal HQ, you can evaluate players in the Transfer Portal with the same tools you use to scout players during the season.

Portal HQ brings all the transfer portal recruits and organizes them in our system, while instantly connecting them to advanced statistics, data, video, and custom reporting!

Stop buying multiple subscriptions and piecing together information from multiple sources—learn how to leverage all the tools available to you in 6-4-3 Charts to find your program’s next difference-makers in the portal!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Look At Portal HQ

Transfer Portal Evaluation Workflow

Creating Custom Reports
Starting in Portal HQ
Easy-Access Interactive Stats
Video Analysis with 643 Synergy
Ball Tracking Metrics with Trackman SYNC
Custom Reporting

A LOOK AT PORTAL HQ

Portal HQ provides your program with a seamless connection between the Transfer Portal and 6-4-3 Charts’ deeply integrated platform and tools. Learn more below about how this Portal HQ will transform how you recruit the portal!

PORTAL HQ FEATURES

FILTERS

1. INFO FILTERS – Division, Handedness, Class, Position

2. LOCATION/DATE FILTERS – Hometown, Date Entered

3. HITTER STAT FILTERS – Sport, Stat Year, Minimum PA, BA, SLG, wOBA

4. PITCHER STAT FILTERS – Sport, Stat Year, Minimum BF, BAA, K%, BB%

643 SYNERGY CONNECTION

Synergy-connected video and data visualization on players in the Transfer Portal is now one click away with Portal HQ!

Just find the player you want to view in Portal HQ and click the Synergy logo next to their name. You’re then automatically taken to that player’s profile in 643 Synergy. Here you can view everything about the player within the various Synergy-enabled tools:

TRACKMAN SYNC CONNECTION

TrackMan-connected ball tracking visualization (and associated Synergy video) on players in the Transfer Portal is now one click away with Portal HQ!

Just find the player you want to view in Portal HQ and click the Trackman logo next to their name. You’re then automatically taken to that player’s profile in Trackman SYNC. Here you can view everything about the player within the various TrackMan-enabled tools:

ADD TO CUSTOM ROSTER

Once your Custom Roster is created, it has never been easier to fill it in with your targeted Transfer Portal recruits.

Just click the ➕ button next to their name and select the custom roster!

STAT TABLES

The Portal HQ tool has comprehensive career stat tables for hitters and pitchers in the portal.

Apply filters and then sort whichever column you’d like to easily narrow down the kind of recruits you’re looking for!

Transfer Portal Evaluation Workflow

6-4-3 Charts will transform your transfer evaluation workflow by bringing the transfer portal list, comprehensive statistics, video analysis, ball-tracking data, and custom reporting together into one platform.

Whether you’re screening dozens of initial players or making final decisions between your top prospects, the 6-4-3 Charts’ tools highlighted below provide deeper insights and streamline your entire recruiting workflow.

1. Create Custom Roster(s)

The Custom Rostering tool is your secret weapon for transfer portal evaluation, allowing you to organize potential recruits into specialized groups for side-by-side analysis:

- • Create targeted rosters like “Power Hitters” or “LHP Relievers.”
- • Access your custom groups across all 643 tools
- • Compare candidates using the same metrics you use for opponent (or self) scouting
- • Update rosters as you narrow down targets

Start your portal recruiting here, then leverage all of 643’s tools. More below on that 👇

2. Start Finding Portal Players in Portal HQ

How to use Portal HQ is outlined for you in the section above. But if you need a refresher on finding transfer portal recruits in Portal HQ, check out the video below!

3. Easy-Access Stats & Data in Interactive Stats

The Interactive Stats tile puts every statistical angle of transfer portal candidates at your fingertips, allowing for both broad analysis and pinpoint evaluation of specific skills. With data going back multiple seasons, you’ll have the complete story on every recruit:

- • Access career and year-by-year stats for all DI, DII, DIII and NAIA players in one place
- • Utilize Stats+ for interactive statistical tables.
- • Compare candidates against your current players, as well as conference and division standards, with the Stat Comparison tool
- • Identify statistical patterns that might predict future performance (coming soon!)

From basic stat tables to advanced performance visualization, these integrated tools provide the foundation for smart transfer portal decisions. Below are a few suggested use cases for the Interactive Stats tools when starting your evaluation of transfer portal recruits! 👇

Stats+

Stats+ is the first place to look for traditional and advanced statistics tables on your custom transfer rosters. You can use the interactive stat groups and split filters to see who has the edge in various statistical categories and situations. Then, when you have the stat table you are looking for, you can export it to CSV or PDF to use outside the platform (if needed).

4. Video Analysis with 643 Synergy

The 643 Synergy integration truly changes transfer portal evaluation by connecting every statistical data point to actual game video, giving you both quantitative measures and qualitative context in one seamless experience.

- • Watch any play from a prospect’s career with just one click on any stat or visualization
- • Apply powerful filters to focus on performance against specific competition or situations
- • Create and share prospect playlists with your staff for consistent evaluation
- • Analyze mechanics, approach, and intangibles that numbers alone can’t capture

With these video-enabled tools, you’ll make transfer decisions with complete confidence, seeing exactly how prospects perform in the situations that matter most to your program. Below are a few suggested tools/use cases for using 643 Synergy while evaluating Transfer Portal recruits. 👇

Pitch Highlighter - The All-Everything Tool

Pitch Highlighter

The Pitch Highlighter tool in 643 Synergy delivers a complete picture of a transfer candidate’s performance with interactive visuals tied directly to video clips. See exactly how prospects perform against different pitch types:

- • Analyze K-zone and spray chart data with interactive, cross-filterable visuals
- • Instantly watch corresponding video by clicking any data point
- • Compare performance to D1 averages with color-coded percentile rankings
- • Identify pitch-specific strengths and weaknesses through detailed tables

With just a few clicks, transform raw data into actionable recruiting insights by seeing exactly how prospects handle different pitches in game situations.

Defensive Runs Saved + Defense

Defensive Runs Saved

The Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) leaderboards in 643 Synergy allow coaches to use our proprietary metrics to find [undervalued] defensive talent in the transfer portal. Search any player by name to discover their true defensive impact:

- • See quantified defensive value across multiple skill categories
- • Identify defensive specialists whose gloves might compensate for offensive limitations
- • Discover dual-threat players whose defensive prowess complements their offensive production.
- • Compare catchers’ framing runs, stolen base prevention, and overall defensive impact

This objective defensive metric helps you find transfer gems whose defensive contributions might be overlooked by programs focused solely on offensive statistics.

Defense Evaluation Tool

After searching through the DRS leaderboard, you can head over to the Defense tool in 643 Synergy to watch all associated defensive plays from any player on your custom roster.

Set filters to quickly see ‘rangey’ plays a SS made up the middle…or errors on routine groundballs.

5. Advanced Metrics & Tools With Trackman SYNC

Trackman SYNC takes your transfer portal evaluation to professional-level depth, revealing player qualities that traditional stats and video alone can’t capture. Where other programs might miss hidden talent, with Trackman SYNC, you’ll be able to identify recruits with undervalued potential:

- • Leverage objective ball-tracking data
- • Identify players whose underlying metrics may suggest they’ll outperform their current stats
- • Evaluate specific position groups with specialized tools

The Trackman SYNC tile provides specialized evaluation tools for every position. Below are a few suggested use cases (by position) for evaluating Transfer Portal recruits with Trackman SYNC. 👇

Hitters - Pitch Highlighter

Pitch Highlighter (For Hitters)

The Pitch Highlighter tool in Trackman SYNC gives you insight into a potential transfer’s hitting capabilities beyond basic stats:

- • See where a hitter excels or struggles with interactive zone charts. (Connected to Synergy video)
- • Analyze performance against specific pitch types with bat-to-ball metrics (Like pitch velocity in the example to the right)
- • Compare contact quality metrics to division averages
- • Identify chase tendencies to predict how they’ll adapt to your conference

The color-coded percentile rankings quickly show how a hitter stacks up—red for strengths, blue for weaknesses.

Pitchers - Pitcher Arsenal

Pitcher Arsenal

The Pitch Arsenal tool reveals the true quality of a transfer pitcher’s repertoire beyond basic velocity and statistics:

- • Visualize movement profiles and release points to understand pitch deception
- • Compare pitch characteristics to D1 averages with percentile rankings
  - – Watch the associated Synergy video for the data points
- • Analyze pitch tunneling to project development potential
- • Evaluate stuff and command metrics to identify undervalued arms

Find pitchers whose underlying metrics suggest they could thrive in your program.

Catchers - Catcher Framing Tool

Catcher Framing Tool

The Catcher Framing tool provides insights into a transfer catcher’s receiving skills that traditional stats miss completely:

- • See strike rates in each shadow zone compared to D1 averages
- • Quantify run value with Framing+ metrics that account for the situation
- • Identify specific areas of strength or weakness around the zone
- • Compare performance against right and left-handed pitchers
- • Print a quick framing PDF report to add to your file on the recruit

Use this tool to identify undervalued catchers whose framing skills could significantly impact your pitching staff’s performance!

6. Custom Reporting For Comprehensive Prospect Profiles

Custom Reporting in 643 Charts elevates your transfer portal process from scattered analysis to streamlined, comprehensive evaluation:

- • Combine all platform data sources into unified reports
- • Create templates tailored to your program’s specific evaluation criteria
- • Generate professional documents for staff meetings and presentations
- • Use the new dashboard tool to interact with your custom reports, right in the 643 platform

Below are a few suggested use cases for Custom Reports, Tables, and Dashboards while evaluating transfer portal recruits! 👇

Position-Specific Reports

Position-Specific Custom Reports

Custom Reports in 643 bring all your transfer portal analysis together in one place, allowing you to create position-specific templates that highlight the metrics that matter most for each role:

- • Design pitcher templates with arsenal analysis, sequencing data, and stuff metrics
- • Create catcher reports that emphasize framing, pop times, and offensive production
- • Build middle infielder evaluations focused on defensive metrics and situational hitting
- • Save templates for consistent evaluation across all your transfer targets

Once designed, apply these templates to any player in seconds—perfect for standardizing your recruiting process and efficiently presenting findings to your coaching staff. No more cobbling together screenshots and stats from multiple sources!

Multi-Player, Single-Page Comparative Reports

Multi-Player, Single-Page Reports

The multi-player custom reports feature allows you to place up to six candidates on a single page for direct comparison. This powerful tool streamlines your decision-making process:

- • Compare key metrics across multiple transfer targets in the same position group
- • Place potential transfers alongside current roster players to identify upgrades
- • Present comparison visuals, including stat tables, heat maps, and spray charts
- • Create standardized evaluation pages by position for staff meetings and discussions

This at-a-glance comparison format helps your staff quickly identify the best fits among similar candidates.

Multi-Player, Single-Page Comparative Reports

Dashboards

The [new] Dashboards tool in Custom Reports transforms your reports into dynamic, video-enabled recruiting tools that dramatically streamline your transfer portal evaluation process:

- • Click directly on any data point to instantly watch the corresponding Synergy video
- • Create stat-modifier dashboards that highlight “plus” pitch profiles (94+ mph fastballs, 2500+ rpm breaking balls)
- • Box-select specific zones in heat maps or spray charts to analyze targeted performance areas
- • Compare multiple candidates on a single interactive page for efficient staff evaluation

This powerful visualization tool seamlessly connects numbers to video, letting your staff instantly validate statistical insights with real game footage without leaving your custom report. It’s perfect for those quick transfer recruiting meetings!

Evaluating A Player's NIL Value With Data

Everyone remembers this quote from the movie Moneyball: “Your goal shouldn’t be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs.”

Of course, they were talking about the MLB’s Oakland A’s, but college baseball today isn’t much different. With the transfer portal and NIL, the offseason often feels like free agency, with the top collegiate players going to the highest “bidders.”

6-4-3 Charts has a tool that can help guide the path to “buying” more runs and wins, while optimizing your NIL spend. Our Wins Above Replacement (WAR) Leaderboard.

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Interested in getting access to Portal HQ and other 6-4-3 Charts' tools?
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643 AWRE

AWRE + 6-4-3 Charts: Do More With Your Video

AWRE is an emerging baseball and softball multi-angle video platform that transforms player development, streaming, and instant replay.

And now, with the 643 AWRE integration, users can visualize AWRE data and interact with AWRE video in the 6-4-3 Charts interface. AWRE video is connected through the tools in the 643 AWRE tile (see below), and with those tools, video and data come to life to form actionable insights for coaches and players.

We can also automatically connect AWRE clips with all your uploaded Trackman SYNC data (available with a Trackman integration). With this option, you can interact with AWRE and Trackman data (in tandem, side by side, etc.) like never before.

The 643 AWRE Tile

The 643 AWRE tile is now available in the 6-4-3 Charts interface for PLUS users with the AWRE Integration. The 643 AWRE tile allows you to access tools to watch all your videos efficiently and visualize associated data without leaving the 6-4-3 platform. (And much more!)

Playlist Manager

The 643 AWRE Playlist Manager is where you can organize your videos into different categories. You can quickly populate your playlists while watching videos using the different 643 AWRE tools (or in Trackman SYNC). Once you have your playlists, you can sync them to your team’s Player Portal so all your athletes can access the playlists of AWRE videos they need to watch!

Pitch Highlighter

The Pitch Highlighter module is a great place to start when first interacting within the 643 AWRE tile. The two main interactive graphics show: the strike zone (left) and balls in play on the spray chart (right). All data points on the visuals can be box-selected or individually clicked to watch the corresponding AWRE video from all available angles.

Both of these visualizations can be filtered and interacted with to better understand what pitches are working for your pitcher or are getting barrelled by hitters. And if you want to dive even deeper, you can filter the matchup data by conference or specific opponents.

Don’t forget about the cold, hard stats! The Pitch Highlighter tables are a great place to evaluate a player’s performance and see how they compare to their peers. The following tables are each broken down by pitch type:

Performance Metrics Table: Shows basic counting and average statistics, including BA, SLG, wOBA, and BAPIP.
Batted Ball Profile Table: Breaks down the data on balls in play by pitch type. It shows where the batter is hitting the ball on the field (Pull, Middle, Oppo) and what kind of contact they are making (FB, LD, PU).
Plate Discipline Table: Details how where pitches are located and how disciplined hitters are against different pitch types. It’s particularly interesting to look at the different Whiff and Put-Away Percentages to see if the pitcher gets their outs via the heat or the breaking ball!

Three additional features to point out with these tables:

You can export them to PDF or CSV or copy them to your clipboard.
You can click on any cell and watch the corresponding AWRE video. (See video above)
You can easily see player strengths and weaknesses by referencing the coloring for stats. The red indicates that the player is really good in that stat category. The darkest shades of red represent the highest percentiles. The blue indicates that the player is poorer than average in that stat category. The darkest shades of blue represent the lowest percentiles. Percentiles are calculated using league averages (D1 Baseball & D1 Softball).

Zone Illustrations

The Zone Illustration tool is powerful for evaluating strengths and weaknesses around the zone. A quick scroll through the zones will give you a clear picture of where in the zone a hitter tends to swing, make contact, miss, get on base, and make elevated contact. And conversely, where a pitcher locates pitches, misses bats, targets in counts, and misses the zone.

With the AWRE tile, you are just a click away from watching all the videos associated with a particular zone illustration or a zone within a zone!

Overall, Zone Illustrator is useful for helping you develop a quick plan for your pitchers and hitters to attack the zone.

Zone Illustration Layout Options

Traditional

9-Box

Quad Box

Vertical Thirds

All Sprays

All Sprays is a great tool for uncovering tendencies in your hitters. And because you are in the 643 AWRE tile, all the spray charts have corresponding, multi-angled AWRE videos attached.

Want to see all of a batter’s two-strike hits to left field from the behind-home view? Just quickly add a few filters and you can do that in All Sprays! All the spray charts (like the ones you see below) will dynamically adjust for whatever filters you put in place.

All Sprays + Point Chart

Power Sprays

Site Specific Sprays

Split Sprays

Two Strike Sprays

Miscellaneous Sprays

Game Replay

Do you want to keep it simple and just watch a full game? Or maybe you want to see a certain batter vs a certain pitcher? You can do all that (and more) in the Game Replay module! This is a great place to check out the day after a game from a full review of the action.

Pitch Sequencing

What type of pitch is your pitcher throwing in a 0-1 count against right-handed hitters?

The Pitch Sequencing tool allows you to answer this type of question by taking a deep dive into the tendencies of any pitcher by count, result, and pitch type. Then, with the LHH vs RHH filtering option, you can create a game plan for your pitcher so they are not too predictable on the mound.

Associated AWRE video coming soon to the Pitch Sequencing tool!

The Pitch Sequencing tool comes with four associated, exportable tables:

At/Thru Count Averages: Breaks down the number of PA, BA, OBP, SLG, BABIP, and wOBA for each count (At and Thru).
Pitch Selection: Shows the percentage of time each pitch type (Fastball, Breaking, Offspeed) is thrown in different scenarios (Even, After Strike, First Pitch, etc.)
Sequencing Performance (on 2nd Pitch): Breaks down the pitcher’s use of pitch combinations (Fastball/Fastball, Slider/Fastball, etc.) and the effectiveness of the sequence.
Pitch Type by Count Matrix: Shows how often each specific pitch type is used in each specific count.

Heatmaps

The Heatmap tool is indispensable for self-scouting your pitchers and hitters. With 6-4-3 Charts, you can set up a couple of filter options, and you’ll quickly identify where your pitchers can execute their pitches and where your hitters do damage.

Pair the insights you gained from the Heatmaps with those from the Zone Illustration module, and you’ll have an extremely detailed zone report on any pitcher (or hitter)!

Plus, as you could have guessed, you can view all mapped AWRE videos from the Heatmap. Just box-select the area of the zone you want to view and watch all the associated AWRE videos!

NEW FALL 2024 – Heatmap Coloring Options

Traditional

Rainbow

COMING VERY SOON!

Filters

Filters are available in all sections of the 643 AWRE tab. The filters are designed to help you narrow down the data so you can see exactly what you want to see. Basically, if there’s a scenario in a game, you can filter down the data to it.

Plus, you can save your filters for easy access the next time around!

The Game Information filters allow you to first narrow down the date range you’d like to report on. Then, you can further filter the data by the general situations of the game, including base state, inning, number of outs, and handedness of the pitcher or batter.

The Outcome and Pitch Information filters are where you can start getting extremely granular with your filtering. Filter by the outcome, zone, BIP type, pitch type, and count to see how your selected player performs in specific situations.

With the Matchup Information filter, you can limit your results to a certain opponent or player. This is perfect for quick game or series prep!

Watch From All Camera Angles

You can view all your camera angles anywhere there’s AWRE video available in the 6-4-3 Charts platform! Easily toggle between camera angles during plays and seamlessly pick up where the play left off when you make the switch.

AWRE + Trackman + 6-4-3 Charts

When you combine AWRE’s video-capturing abilities, Trackman’s ball-tracking abilities, and 6-4-4 Charts’ data visualization capabilities, our platform truly becomes a one-stop shop!

With AWRE and Trackman Integrations, users can visualize all their ball tracking data (from Trackman) and watch the corresponding video (from AWRE) in one place, using 6-4-3 Charts.

Learn more about your data visualization capabilities with our Trackman Data Visualization tools and the Trackman SYNC Integration.

Interested in getting the 643 AWRE Integration for your program?
Reach out to us!

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Add-Ons

6-4-3 Charts: Add-Ons & Integrations

Starting in 2023-24, Prep Baseball Report will supply its player data to 6-4-3 Charts’ existing database of college data, creating a more complete picture of a player’s career arc through statistics and video.

[Available with the Prep Baseball Integration]

Prep Baseball Report

More third-party add-ons coming soon! Follow 6-4-3 Charts on Twitter to see our latest product updates.
[Or shoot us a note with any add-ons/integrations you’d like to see on the 6-4-3 Charts platform in the future.]

Learn more about our main features & packages!

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643 Synergy

Synergy Video + 6-4-3 Charts: A Winning Combination

With the Synergy Data Integration, users can interact with Synergy data and video in the 6-4-3 Charts interface. Synergy video is connected in the 6-4-3 Synergy, Interactive Stats, and Trackman SYNC Tiles according to the user’s data access.

The 643 Synergy Tile

The 6-4-3 Synergy tile is available in the 6-4-3 Charts interface for users with the Synergy Integration. The 6-4-3 Synergy tile allows you to watch all your videos efficiently without leaving the 6-4-3 platform.

Within the 6-4-3 Synergy Tile:

View interactive visualizations like zone illustrations, spray charts, heatmaps, and more, all linked to the associated video.
Filter video by date, base state, outs, count, outcome, pitch info, and more.
Explore interactive tables and visualizations to see associated video instantly using one-click view and box selection.
Build playlists from selected videos and organize them in folders within the 6-4-3 Synergy Playlist Manager
Send playlists created in 6-4-3 directly to the Synergy Editor as part of our existing partnership with Synergy.

Pitch Highlighter

The Pitch Highlighter tab is a great place to start when first interacting within the 6-4-3 Synergy tile. The two main interactive graphics show pitches (left) and balls in play (right). All of the data points on the graphs can be selected or grouped to watch the corresponding Synergy video.

Both of these displays can be filtered and interacted with to get a better understanding of what pitches are working for a pitcher. And, if you want to dive even deeper, you can filter the matchup data by conference or specific opponents.

Plus, you can watch all the videos associated with selected multiple or individual data points.

The Pitch Highlighter tables are a great place to scout a player’s performance and see how they compare to their peers. The following tables are each broken down by pitch type:

Performance Metrics Table: Shows basic counting and average statistics, including BA, SLG, wOBA, and BAPIP.
Batted Ball Profile Table: Breaks down the data on balls in play by pitch type. It shows where the batter is hitting the ball on the field (Pull, Middle, Oppo) and what kind of contact they are making (FB, LD, PU).
Plate Discipline Table: Details how where pitches are located and how disciplined hitters are against different pitch types. It’s particularly interesting to look at the different Whiff and Put-Away Percentages to see if the pitcher gets their outs via the heat or the breaking ball!

Three additional features to point out with these tables: 1) You can export them to PDF or CSV or copy them to your clipboard. 2) You can click on any of the cells and watch the corresponding Synergy video. (See video below) 3) You can easily see player strengths and weaknesses by referencing the coloring for stats. The red indicates that the player is really good in that stat category. The darkest shades of red represent the highest percentiles. The blue indicates that the player is poorer than average in that stat category. The darkest shades of blue represent the lowest percentiles. Percentiles are calculated using league averages (D1 Baseball & D1 Softball).

Zone Illustrations

The Zone Illustrations tab is a powerful tool for evaluating a hitter’s strengths and weaknesses around the zone. A quick scroll through the zones and you’ll get a clear picture of where in the zone a hitter tends to swing, make contact, or whiff. And, in the Synergy tile, you are just a click away from watching all the videos associated within each zone.