Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball's Unseen Skills
According to the New York Times today:
A new camera and software system in its final testing phases will record the exact speed and location of the ball and every player on the field, allowing the most digitized of sports to be overrun anew by hundreds of innovative statistics that will rate players more accurately, almost certainly affect their compensation and perhaps alter how the game itself is played.
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well, this will be interesting.
this could be used for defensive purposes as well, no?
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by drewishdrewid on Jul 10, 2009 10:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
What a breakthrough!
May temper the arguments between “seeing is believing” and “statistics” when rating a player defensively. I can’t wait to see where Soiano ranks.
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by Clutche on Jul 10, 2009 10:59 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
This is
actually a really interesting article. I wonder how much it’ll assuage the arguments between the stat geeks and the aesthetic Luddites. I take no sides. Well, sorta.
I don’t think this’ll end the argument, of course. After all, no matter how much data is ultimately crunched, I want to believe in my own sig line, natch.
"We are not equations with hats." -Dean Young
by Kegler on Jul 10, 2009 3:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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