With every passing season, technology continues to infuse Major League Baseball and, if anything, that process accelerated over the off-season. As the dust settles after Opening Day, SportTechie presents a...
With every passing season, technology continues to infuse Major League Baseball and, if anything, that process accelerated over the off-season. As the dust settles after Opening Day, SportTechie presents a...
Baseball’s annual winter meetings, when the entire industry descends on one hotel for a week every December, are littered with chance encounters between insiders that can lead to trades, free-agent...
The calls to Kolkata kept coming. Steven Cadavid, the CEO of biomechanics analysis company KinaTrax, would reach out to his data-management partner, iMerit, last October to say that the ongoing project might last only one more week. Then there’d be another week extension. And another. “It’s funny, we didn’t even know, initially, that we were […]
How did the Chicago Cubs have the best team ERA in baseball during the 2016 regular season? The easy answer is to just take a look at its starting rotation, but off the diamond, the answer might also lie in the club’s use of big data. With the World Series knotted at one game apiece […]
