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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Computer v Human Umpires
BtB lays out their case.
In my opinion, the computer will make the better call on the fringes a bit better. The computer will make the worse call on the “gimmes”. That is, a miscalibration, a hiccup, or whatnot, may lead to a situation when an intentional ball could be called a strike. And as a PITCHf/x-er pointed out last year or so (John Walsh?), that is exactly what happened.
The gimme call, like we saw in the Cards/Royals World Series where the batter was out by two steps but called safe, is terrible from a human, but somehow we can live with it. Having more than one of those from a computer would doom it.
The best system, so far, is still the human umpire, as long as they go over the PITCHf/x reports on a daily basis to see what they called, and whether they show biases on the fringes.
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