Friar Watch

I found some interesting information about the MLB Gameday pitch tracking. It’s provided by Sportvision, the same company that does the 1st down marker for NFL games. The same system powers the Carls Jr Pitch Tracker, as well as the Fox system that shows the flight path. Note that this is not […]

[Read more →]

Joe P. Sheehan continues his excellent series on analyzing Gameday data over at Baseball Analysts. This time he looks at sinkerball specialists and shows how you can identify the type of pitch based on the break data in the Gameday XML files. Jake Peavy makes an appearance to show what the data looks […]

[Read more →]

There’s no Enhanced Gameday data for games in Phoenix so I thought I’d take a quick look at Mark Buehrle’s no-hitter on 4/18. Specifically, was he getting the calls from the ump?
Yellow = Balls
Green = Called Strikes

Looks like a fair strike zone to me.
On the other hand, let’s take a look at Kevin Millwood […]

[Read more →]

CNET has a nice look at what goes on behind the scenes at MLB Gameday.

[Read more →]

There’s a lot of good information in MLB.com’s Enhanced Gameday XML data but unfortunately they don’t provide any documentation. Here’s what I’ve been able to uncover.
The real starting point for anyone interested in Gameday XML hacking has to be Joe P. Sheehan’s excellent articles at Baseball Analysts. Joe was the first person that I’m […]

[Read more →]

I’m trying out a new template for the site. Opinions?
P.S. The Archives link is broken and the images are too small (and not Padre specific). I’m working on those.

[Read more →]

While trying to find some answers I came across this interesting discussion at Inside the Book:

To the post by Joe Arthur at 8:47 a.m. on January 6, the system we’re installing actually uses three high-speed cameras which capture approximately 60 images per second, so we’re hoping to record about 30 data points for each pitch. […]

[Read more →]