Help & Docs
Feature-by-feature guides to the Underdog platform — what each surface does, who can use it, and how to read the numbers. Pick a topic, or use the navigation on the left.
Getting started
What Underdog is, who can do what, and how to find your way around.
Roster & squads
Build your panel, group players into squads, and keep availability current.
Athletes
CoachesThe roster: add players, bulk import, and the per-athlete drill-down.
Squads
CoachesGroup players into squads and track engagement across field, gym, jumps and wellness.
Concerns
CoachesAutomatic flags for injury risk, fatigue, engagement and data quality.
Wellness
CoachesDaily player check-ins and the squad readiness dashboard.
Injuries & Availability
CoachesLog injuries, track return-to-play, and see where the knocks are landing across the squad.
Jump testing
CoachesImport jump tests, read CMJ / RSI trends, and the squad leaderboard.
GPS & speed
Everything that comes off the GPS units — sessions, runs, and speed development.
GPS sessions
CoachesBrowse tracked sessions, read the headlines, and open a session in detail.
Runs explorer
CoachesSearch every sprint and high-speed run across sessions and athletes.
Speed Progress
CoachesTrack max speed, speed endurance and repeat-effort capacity over 12 weeks.
GPS data review
CoachesAllocate or dismiss GPS data the importer could not place automatically.
Video analysis export
CoachesSend a session’s sprints, intervals, phases and highlights to Sportscode, Nacsport, Dartfish or Catapult Vision.
Metrics reference
EveryoneDefinitions for every derived metric: MSS, HSR, sprints, RHIE, HRR60, ACWR.
Conditioning
Turn running test results into individualised cone-lane sessions, delivered and verified.
Conditioning
CoachesThe Profile → Prescribe → Deliver → Verify loop: build individualised running sessions and print the lane sheet.
Running fitness tests
CoachesCapture MAS and VIFT pitch-side from the coach app — the 2 km TT, 1.2 km shuttle and 30-15 IFT that feed conditioning.
Conditioning: evidence base
CoachesWhere every conditioning formula, anchor and zone comes from — the research and S&C sources behind MAS, VIFT, ASR, HIIT and %MAS prescription.
Load management
Keep each athlete in the sweet spot — not too much, not too little.
Gym
Plan, prescribe and review strength work.
Planning & reporting
Schedule the week and turn the data into something you can share.
Schedule
CoachesPlan training, matches and gym sessions on the calendar.
Game Demands
CoachesPlan each session — or a whole training week — as a dialled percentage of what a match costs.
Game Demands: evidence base
CoachesWhere the % -of-game model and the planner presets come from — the research behind MD-minus planning, the taper, and what’s a house heuristic.
Reports
CoachesGenerate printable PDF summaries for sessions and athletes.
Administration
Org settings, integrations and usage — mostly admin-only.
Player app
The mobile (/me) experience players use on their own phones.
The player app
PlayersHome, training, matches and the daily wellness check-in.
Logging gym work
PlayersHow players record a gym session on their phone.
Fuelling & weight
PlayersYour profile, the weight trend, and how to fuel well to build and hold healthy weight.
Coaching on mobile
CoachesThe coach hub inside the player app, including view-as.