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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
PITCHf/x recaps
Harry at THT:
You probably saw it in the New York Times, but we saw it in motion. An overhead view of a virtual playing field, where the pitch is tracked, and classified, the hit is tracked, and measured. The baserunners and fielders are tracked. You can see the shortstop move toward the batted ball, watch it go by him, follow him as he goes out to be the cut-off man. At the same time, more numbered/colored dots are moving. You select one, and you can see how far the runner is to the next base and how fast he’s running, in miles per hour. The outfielder’s throw, yes, that’s measured, too. It was one play, but I could have watched it a thousand times.
Dave at Fangraphs:
Marv White of Sportvision told us that before every game the system is re-registered to make sure that it is in proper registration. The registration is super sensitive, in PETCO, for example, the weight of additional fans sinks the entire stadium enough to draw the cameras out of registration. Some suggested that Sportvision release the information whenever a system in re-registered so that analysts knew of these events.
Eric at BPro, most of the article is protected from non-paying eyes, and it ends with:
Paul Robinson, a teacher at the San Mateo High School, has taken notice of the bored, zombie-like faces incapable of mustering even a simple head nod when a discussion of the drag coefficients begins, and has set out to change the way his classes are taught.
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