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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Tracking players’ movement

By Tangotiger, 09:32 AM

I’ve seen this for soccer, in an automated fashion. I don’t remember what system is used in soccer (trackman?). Anyway, this enterprising fellow is doing this by hand in hockey. When FIELDf/x rolls out, you will see charts like this as well, especially for outfielders, but also for infielders with guys on 1B.

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