Baseball is a really great sports for kids to have fun outside and be physically active, and is also a very popular choice for parents who are looking for a nice outdoors activity that they can do together with their kids. From hitting a pitch to catching and throwing a ball with precision, playing baseball can help kids to develop great hand-eye coordination. Moreover, it’s also a really good way for parents and their kinds to spend time together and strengthen their relationship. Still, it can be hard at times for kids to improve their baseball game, and that struggle could potentially ruin the fun that comes with throwing, hitting, and catching the ball. Whether you’re simply looking to make baseball time more fun for your kids or even if you’re looking for a more engaging and more encouraging way to help them improve their baseball skills, the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball can take your child’s baseball playtime to a whole new level.
The Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball is a smart App-enabled baseball for kids ages 6 to 14 that can detect throws, catches, misses, and ground balls, and can also accurately measure pitching (throwing) speed, height, precision, airtime, transfer speed, throw power, glove movement, and overall consistency via the Backyard League App, which is packed with interactive baseball games related to baseball drills that kids can play solo, with friends, or even compete in a virtual league in which they can challenge other players around the world, while also featuring real-time coaching audio feedback plus great sound effects and music, and boasting Bluetooth Connectivity up to 70 hours battery life.
By combining baseball and gaming together, this smart App-connect baseball perfectly bridges physical play with virtual gameplay together into an awesome and truly interactive baseball experience, ultimately turning your kids’ screen time into an exhilarating outdoor fun time that’ll keep them playing outside longer.
Now, let’s have a more detailed look at the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball and check out everything that this smart App-connect baseball has to offer your kid(s).
DESIGN & SPECS
Starting with the ball’s size, the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball is designed with the same dimensions of an official baseball, measuring exactly 9 inches in diameter and weighing only 5 ounces.
The Playfinity Backyard League also has a really cool and stylish design, sporting a Bright White body with Bright Orange and Dark Blue accents in the form of stitching, logos, and stylized texting, looking just as cool as a professional baseball, if not cooler.
Not only does is the Playfinity Backyard League designed to have the exact regulation size and weight of a professional baseball, but this smart baseball also packs a very high-quality and robust construction, for which its core is made of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) and its outer layer is made of a premium Faux Leather, allowing it to be played with and also feel just like an official baseball, as well as offering players a very nice and solid grip.
On top of that, the ball is also rated to be water-resistant, so parents and their kids have no reason to worry if it ends up falling inside a water puddle.
For its tracking capabilities, this smart baseball is powered by a smart activity tracker microprocessor (which is basically the brain of the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball), which is exactly what allows it to precisely detect throws, catches, misses, and ground balls, and also to accurately measure each player’s pitching (throwing) speed, height, precision, airtime, transfer speed, throw power, glove movement, and overall consistency.
Lastly, it’s also worth noting that parents and their kids can also easily add more weight to the ball if necessary by equipping it with one or more of the adjustable weight tuners that come included in its package.
INTERFACE / CONTROL PANEL
We’ll now have a better look at the ball’s interface.
For turning the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball On or Off, the ball integrates a built-in Activity button, which works as its dedicated Power On/Off button.
Pressing the ball’s Activity button will instantly turn On the ball’s power and also its smart activity tracker microprocessor for its accurate baseball-metric tracking capabilities.
After 2 minutes of no activity, the ball will enter a Stand-By Mode, for which its power will automatically be restarted if any movement is detected.
After 10 minutes of no activity, the ball automatically enters a Power Off Mode, for which players can turn it back on by simply pressing its Activity button once again.
CONNECTIVITY
For establishing wireless connectivity with its smartphone companion App (the Backyard League App), the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball boasts Bluetooth 4.2 Connectivity, which also allows it to be connected to a Bluetooth speaker for listening to its coaching audio feedback in real-time, as well as its cool sound effects and music.
BATTERY & BATTERY LIFE
For its power, the Playfinity Backyard League utilizes a built-in CR2032 battery cell that ultimately offers players up to 70 hours of battery life, for which parents and their kids can expect to get approximately 40,000 throws.
THE SMARTPHONE COMPANION APP – The Backyard League App
For checking the ball’s multiple tracking capabilities, users are required to install the Backyard League App on their smartphones, which is available to download for free for both iOS and Android devices.
Via the Backyard League App, kids and their parents are offered a total of six (6) different interactive baseball games which are directly related to baseball drills, which display a report of accurately measured baseball metrics in real-time, making it easy for children and their parents to keep track of the progress they’ve made so far for their baseball skills. As mentioned before, kids can play these games solo, or with a partner (either a parent or a friend).
Those games include:
- FAST HANDS – Complete as many throws as possible within 60 seconds.
- FLY BALL – Throw high and low balls after each other and get points for the height difference.
- LONGER AND LONGER – Get as many throws as possible each longer than the one before.
- FREEZE BALL – Throw as precise as you can.
- HIGHER AND HIGHER – Get as many throws as possible each higher than the one before.
- GROUND BALL – Field ground balls as fast and controlled as you can.
All of the Backyard League App’s interactive baseball games also feature a unique in-game coach that provides kids with coaching audio feedback in real-time, which is based on how they play each game, along with the possibility to enabled cool sound effects and music, all of which can be played either via a user’s smartphone’s speaker, or alternatively, via a Bluetooth speaker.
In addition, the Backyard League App also features a Game Builder Mode that allows players to unleash their imagination and create custom games that they want to play.
What’s even cooler is that kids can also compete in a virtual league in which they can challenge other players around the world to directly compare their baseball skills with, and ultimately earn badges and climb the rankings.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
Inside the package, you will find: the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball (main body), a bottom lid and locking screw (to open the ball and access its internal components – weight slot, battery, etc.), the ball’s smart activity tracker microprocessor, its CR2032 battery cell, 16 weight tuners (for adjusting the ball’s weight), a multitool, a FSC Mix insert, and a Quick Start Guide.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball is a smart App-enabled baseball for kids ages 6 to 14 that can detect throws, catches, misses, and ground balls, and can also accurately measure pitching (throwing) speed, height, precision, airtime, transfer speed, throw power, glove movement, and overall consistency via the Backyard League App, which is packed with interactive baseball games related to baseball drills that kids can play solo, with friends, or even compete in a virtual league in which they can challenge other players around the world, while also featuring real-time coaching audio feedback plus great sound effects and music, and boasting Bluetooth Connectivity up to 70 hours battery life.
All in all, the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball makes playing baseball more fun and more engaging for kids, all while simultaneously helping them to improve their baseball skills in a unique and exciting manner, including core throwing, catching and fielding.
You can bet that any kid that enjoys playing baseball or even just playing catch outside will surely love this smart App-connect baseball.
If you’re interested in purchasing it, know that the Playfinity Backyard League Gaming Baseball is priced at just $99. You can order it online right now, either directly from Playfinity’s official shopping page, or alternatively, you can also get it from Amazon, if you’d prefer.
