Deadspin (Dec. 18) -- Statcast, a system that uses cameras and radar to track baseball players and the baseball, offers nearly limitless possibilities for baseball analysis by producing an incredible amount of raw data, some of which is packaged into specific metrics designed by a team of people at Major League Baseball Advanced Media. But the data is kept private.“(MLBAM) might be able to reach better metrics more quickly if the data were all publicly available. There would be an army of amateurs out there – very talented amateurs, I might say – that would work on developing their own metrics,” says Alan Nathan, a professor emeritus of physics at Illinois.
Baseball Physics
12/19/2017