The Hardball Times:How will ball tracking analysis change the game?

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Brainstorming PITCHf/x questions
Published 4/15/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... Here’s Mike’s rather comprehensive list.  I didn’t really offer anything to Mike, but this is what I said anyway: ...

Schrodinger`s Bat: Opus 100 by Dan Fox
Published 4/17/2008 at Baseball Prospectus
... . All readers interested in the cutting edge of baseball analysis no doubt have a sense of the importance of the PITCHf/x data made available by MLB.com as a part of their Gameday system. There are simply an unending number of questions that can be studied with this wealth of new information, and in this column I've done my best to dig into a few of them. In this particular column published on August 23, 2007, I explored the three velocity and three acceleration data points reported in the PITCHf/x data to create three-dimensional graphs of particular pitches, as well as ...

Friday links
Published 4/18/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
Quick, Padre-centric friday links … with a look at Peavy (by PITCHf/x) later tonight … Howlin’ Wolf — GY’s take on Randy Wolf’s last start. Must read books — Dex and the GLB gang discuss their favorite baseball books. On Justin Germano — Richard takes a look at Germano and some advanced stats. Downtown Padres — New Padres blog I found a little while back. Give it a look-see. PITCHf/x — Mike Fast with a tremendous list of questions that PITCHf/x will hopefully help ...

Hawiian Shirt Friday: 04/18/08
Published 4/18/2008 by TD at Rain Delay
... One of my Daily Reads is The Hardball Times - if it’s not yours you should really add it to your list. This article comes from Mike Fast “How will ball tracking analysis change the game?” is in my opinion a must read. I’m still a neophite when it comes to advanced metrics and what not, but I’m learning - this one will push you in the right direction. Go ahead, read it…it wont hurt! ...

Sir-Links-Alot
Published 4/18/2008 by Shinsano at East Windup Chronicle
Sorry folks, but I’ve got to do a link dump. I’ve been pretty busy the past few days, and as a result I’ve got a backlog of things I wanted to get out there. Bugs and Cranks’ writer, and occasional EWC contributor, David Chalk penned something on Yahoo! about the G-POPE, and why the Rays should sign him Baseball Players are Meant to be Fat by Larry Brown Sports Some Pitch f/x theory via Mike Fast at The Hardball Times And using Pitch f/x to see if something’s up with C.C. Sabathia’s ...

Friday Night Fungoes: Dan Fox, Projections, and the Future, man!
Published 4/19/2008 by Justin at On Baseball and the Reds
... Mike Fast put forth a litany of questions that remain to be answered in baseball research. What makes his list useful is that all of these may be answered, at least in part, via the use of ball tracking data. Therefore, we may see tremendous progress on most of these within the coming year or two. Exciting times are ahead... ...