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Live video w game track strike zones

H HaverDad500+ posts
Living in Europe I watch my MLB games on mlb.tv.
Over the course of the summer I've gotten in the habit of watching mlb's gametracker animated ball/strike display while simultenously watching live game video.

My reason for mentioning this is that (to their credit) MLB does not try to fix (nudge) the graphic display to correct/minimize/misrepresent umpiring mistakes. If the ball is clearly outside and still called a strike, it graphically displayed just that way.

Has anyone else watched games in this way?

It provides solid sense of the plate ump's accuracy and consistency, and so far, I can't remember EVER thinking the computer display was innacurate.

Finally, do we know if this display is the Questec system output?

If not what could it be?

HaverDad/Belgium
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Michael S. TaylorMichael S. Taylor1,000+ posts
I am fairly sure it is not the same as Qustec technoligy. Only a percentage of parks have the system but they will show the display you have been watching in all parks that are televised. I assume that it is a combination of network cameras that is producing the box you see. How accurate it is I have no idea, I don't pay it a lot of attention. None of the cameras that TV uses are directly on the zone unless they have the one that is directly over the top looking down.
L Lesterclan10+ posts
Here is the company that does it...
http://www.sportvision.com/

I used to have "issues" with this because the outfield camera is "off-set" to the right side of the pitcher so we can see both the pitcher and batter in the same frame. Obviously, this throws off the angle so using the televised cameras to determine balls/strikes is not accurate.

However, according to Sportsvision.com, the Kzone using multiple "special" cameras NOT used for the broadcast. They are specially mounted and cover the plate good. They have "sensors" that feed into the software and, thus, the "box" you see on your TV.

...take that for what's its worth! Smile
piaa_umppiaa_ump5,000+ posts
It definately is not questec. You would be suprized to know how few stadiums have questec. It is a very sensitive system and not all parks dimensions can provide support for the system.

MLB is working on a new system and hoping to have it installed in more parks. I saw an article on it a while back and if I can get it I will pass the info along.

These programs are interesting and not with out their issues....as a matter of fact very few people in MLB want any system.....the pitchers dont want it, the hitters dont want it, the umpires dont want it, the teams dont want it, and MLB does not want the cost and maintenence........but it just wont go away.......

As for me, I would value it as a training tool..........and thats about it.
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H HaverDad500+ posts
I remember seeing the Sports Vision inventor on a (Cold Pizza?) interview earlier this year.
He was talking about tennis, so it must have been around a some grand slam even, and never mentioned baseball.

I suspect that in my son's lifetime this system, or some other, will replace BB & K responsibilities for MLB.

To begin with, once accepted as 99%+ accurate, it can help eliminate the player/bench/coach/fan-to-umpire whining/confrontations over balls and strikes.

Personally, I just seek accuracy. So far, after seeing it used maybe 25 times, I've yet to question any display. Over those same games there are always a minimum of a 6-8 clearly missed calls.

HaverDad/Brussels
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TRhitTRhit10,000+ posts
Part of the game of baseball is the ability of the batter and pitcher to each adjust to the umpires strike zone---no two umpires have the same zone---

If we go to robots calling balls and strikes we lose what is a great part of the game


I, for one, like the human element of the umpires and their frailties
piaa_umppiaa_ump5,000+ posts
I agree with TR........

If Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Christy Matthewson, Cy Young and Honus Wagner could all come back to life and see a baseball game today.......they would recognize the game pretty much as it was in their day.......

Baseball continues to be rooted in tradition and be true to the game as it was intended. I like to see it stay that way.........
Bulldog 19Bulldog 195,000+ posts
I still contend that if we're going to go to Instant Replay or even as far as having a robot call balls and strikes, we might as well do away with the stadiums, the players, and everything else. In other words, make it all video game because there's no need to play in an actual stadium if we're going to bring in so much computer stuff anyway!

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