Wednesday, January 27, 2010
How to track a flyball
Very cool summary of this study (pdf):
Instead, the researchers discovered that players watch the ball and position themselves so that it appears the ball is neither speeding up nor slowing down, he said. If the ball appears to be speeding up, the player should move back, and if it’s slowing down, the player should move forward, said Warren.
Glove-slap Duk, through Neyer.