THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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Not entirely true as there are Pitch f/x systems installed in minor league parks, but I believe it is the only Pitch f/x system outside of professional baseball.  Alan Nathan has visited there.  Perhaps he has some comments that he can share.

Zelocity, who manufactures a doppler based system similar to Trackman, has concentrated its marketing on colleges, high schools, and indoor based training facilities.  I know that they have one installed here in upstate NY. The last I heard they only have baseball tracking softwhere for their PureFlight system, but are working on baseball tracking softwhere for their more sophisticated PureLaunch system.

As Peter said, I visited the Scientific Baseball facility three weeks ago (http://scientificbaseball.com/).  Butch ("Doc") Schoenhals has pitchf/x cameras set up at an indoor batting cage facility.  He uses the pitch-tracking capability to train pitchers, hitters, and even umpires.  Equally impressive is his video capability.  It is the only pitchf/x installation I know of outside of professional baseball.  Note, however, that a competing system PitchSight is installed at Boston College (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efsg1YTvprw).

That is awesome. Good to see a school like BC implementing something of this nature, too. Are there any other BCS schools (or even smaller schools) using something similar that’s been publicized?

Mike#4:  none that I know of.