I was at the GT/OSU softball game last night because the team my daughters play on were GTs National Anthem buddies ior whatever.
While I was watching the game I noticed a guy who was maybe a student or assistant coach with a laptop right behind home plate. I wandered what he was doing so I asked if he was scoring the game or running the scoreboard remotely. He told me the program he was using was tracking the pitches. So velocity, spin rate, spin efficiency and some other metrics. It also tracked whether the pitch was a ball or strike similar to the MLB ABS system He said his only job was to input if the ump called it a ball or a strike. The ump was pretty bad btw.
He pointed to a group of radars and cameras over the first base dugout and one right behind home plate to show what was tracking the ball. I guess what they used was statcast like the MLB uses or something similar.
Does UCF have anything like this for baseball or softball? Also, don’t you think teams that have this technology can see real time whether or not the ump is any good behind the plate? Or is it against the rules for them to see that during the game. It makes managers and coaches questioning the umps zone during a game a whole different type of argument.
While I was watching the game I noticed a guy who was maybe a student or assistant coach with a laptop right behind home plate. I wandered what he was doing so I asked if he was scoring the game or running the scoreboard remotely. He told me the program he was using was tracking the pitches. So velocity, spin rate, spin efficiency and some other metrics. It also tracked whether the pitch was a ball or strike similar to the MLB ABS system He said his only job was to input if the ump called it a ball or a strike. The ump was pretty bad btw.
He pointed to a group of radars and cameras over the first base dugout and one right behind home plate to show what was tracking the ball. I guess what they used was statcast like the MLB uses or something similar.
Does UCF have anything like this for baseball or softball? Also, don’t you think teams that have this technology can see real time whether or not the ump is any good behind the plate? Or is it against the rules for them to see that during the game. It makes managers and coaches questioning the umps zone during a game a whole different type of argument.
