April 21, 2015

Statcast Game

If you get MLB Network, you may want to tune into the Cardinals game at Washington this evening to see the roll out of Statcast:

All the equipment is in place at the 30 big league ballparks to gather information even the HAL 9000 could not compute.

ChyronHego developed high-definition arrays of three cameras apiece, each placed behind third base 15 meters apart, which capture 30 samples per second of stereoscopic video.

Trackman created a redesigned 3D Doppler radar with a panel containing multiple sensors that captures 2,000 samples of data per second.

Hardware was built specifically for MLB. Joe Inzerillo, executive vice president and chief technology officer of MLB Advanced Media, said the cost was tens of millions of dollars.

“You can say that was the fifth-fastest run to first, that was the ninth-fastest catch, the best route efficiency this season,” Inzerillo said.

“A decade from now, we’ll be looking back and saying that was the highest-fourth-decimal point route efficiency that’s ever been captured in baseball.”

I’m excited that we’ll be able to tell the difference between players who make lots of plays due to great positioning, and those who actually are able to cover a lot of ground to get to a ball.

2 thoughts on “Statcast Game

  1. pft

    How much is going to get into the public domain though. We still can’t even get home away splits from the advanced defensive metrics since they are in the hands of only 2 players who choose not to make them available. If they follow the pitch f/x model we should get what we need though.

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