2015 has been a huge year for advancement in sport technology. And for sports fans, Thanksgiving 2015 provides the perfect opportunity to sit back and reflect on all of the many new technologies that are helping improve the games we love. Here are just four examples to get the conversation started. This could be an enormous list […]
If you are a baseball fan who has always wanted to know more than ERA’s and RBI’s, then check out this VICE Media video on MLB Statcast. The video provides vivid insight into how this technology works and gets direct viewpoints from some of the people directly involved in its creation and operation: MLB Statcast […]
Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) is slowly taking over the world of digital sports content. MLBAM, the Internet branch of the MLB, just launched an online streaming service for the PGA Tour last week, and now they have announced that in 2016 they will run all of the NHL’s web operations, apps, web streaming and even […]
Last week, the MLB announced that they would be making their new Statcast statistics available to the general public. The MLB wanted to release the information just in time for their All-Star Weekend in Cincinnati, and already they are beginning to flex Statcast’s muscles. The Statcast Twitter account revealed a series of videos of the […]
Baseball has long been a sport that relies heavily upon statistics. Now there is a new series of offensive and defensive metrics that the MLB has introduced using their Statcast tracking technology. Statcast, which uses a combination of radar and camera technology, is able to ascertain a number of statistics that have not been readily […]
