Really low hittrax readings at local dbat facility

I would check the calibration of that facility's hit trax unless it is located 1000 ft below sea level

@2022NYC posted:

I would check the calibration of that facility's hit trax unless it is located 1000 ft below sea level

I emailed hittrax asking about it and basically telling them what I said here they got back right away and said theyd love to help recalibrate.

Here's the thing though I tried talking to one of the gms about it last week at local facility and he's convinced that the hittrax is fine. I approached him and said "Hey, I think there's something wrong with the hittrax." His response "that's what you think." I tried telling him what I said here and it went in one ear and out the other. Then I asked him what the hardest ball he saw there was. He said Derek Dietrich hit a ball 103 mph. I told him that Dietrich can hit the ball 113 mph and that 103 is not hard. He got annoyed and walked away.

Hopefully other gm will understand. The thing about this guy is that he's one of those that doesn't embrace data and doesn't like the analytics movement that's taken place. He's older and super old school. Other gm is younger, how hopefully he will understand. Imagine hitting 100mph for the first time ever and the hittrax says 95 😐

Could be the baseballs.  If the local facility is running balls with 1000’s of hits on them they are not going to come off the bat like a fresher ball.

@kt333 posted:

I emailed hittrax asking about it and basically telling them what I said here they got back right away and said theyd love to help recalibrate.

Here's the thing though I tried talking to one of the gms about it last week at local facility and he's convinced that the hittrax is fine. I approached him and said "Hey, I think there's something wrong with the hittrax." His response "that's what you think." I tried telling him what I said here and it went in one ear and out the other. Then I asked him what the hardest ball he saw there was. He said Derek Dietrich hit a ball 103 mph. I told him that Dietrich can hit the ball 113 mph and that 103 is not hard. He got annoyed and walked away.

Hopefully other gm will understand. The thing about this guy is that he's one of those that doesn't embrace data and doesn't like the analytics movement that's taken place. He's older and super old school. Other gm is younger, how hopefully he will understand. Imagine hitting 100mph for the first time ever and the hittrax says 95 😐

I can somewhat understand him, people like that have heard hundreds of times by dads that their gun must be be off because little johnny for sure throws 83 and not 76. In 99% of those cases it is not the gun that is off.

But of course there are some cases when it indeed could be a calibration error and in that case it is unfortunate if he doesn't do anything about it.

Do those things have something similar to a tuning fork where you can check it?

Bring a couple of fresh pearls next time and test it. If it is off, tell the gm every mph it is off is a dollar off the per hour rate of the facility

You guys make a good point about the baseballs however I don't think that's it there'd be times we'd hit a driveline and the balls would be so worn and torn however we'd still hit a plethora of balls over 90 mph the balls at D-BAT seem solid. They are a mixed bag of balls but they always replace consistently. I can check and see what brand balls next time I go.

Update: Talked to the other GM and he was super cool about it. Explained that because the way they have the hittrax set up which is in the air towards the ceiling about 10 or so feet above behind homeplate, it makes it hard to make adjustments to camera whenever it gets hit by baseballs. He said he's willing to recalibrate it tomorrow and that I'm welcome to come in as it happens. What a cool dude. Hopefully we can figure it out. Also I hit 95.1 tonight. Go figure the day I ask to have it fixed is the day I probably hit 100 for the first time lolol.

They recalibrated the machine. It still does not work. I think it may because they have the hittrax box hanging angled down from the ceiling. Very unfortunate. At least the second gm tried and recalibrated. Makes me want to start up a facility and actually have one that works correctly. There are not other hittrax or rhpasodos in my area that I know of.