Fans will never watch baseball the same way again. MLB Statcast was used for the first time this Tuesday on MLB Network during the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals game. Statcast is a data driven technology that tracks everything that happens on the field and allows the game to be analyzed in further detail […]
The future of broadcasting is here. Next Tuesday’s Nationals vs. Cardinals game will be unlike any other regular season baseball broadcast before it with its use of Statcast. Going forward, MLB broadcasts will use Statcast to track new metrics such as the speed of a player stealing a base, how hard a ball is hit, […]
The highest honor at this weekend’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the Alpha Award for best Analytics Innovation/Technology, was given to MLBAM for its new Statcast player tracking system which is set debut at across all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks on for Opening Day. The award, which is given to recognize the best use of […]
