"The largest single advance in baseball science since the development of the box score..."

A new camera and software system in its final testing phases will record the exact speed and location of the ball and every player on the field, allowing the most digitized of sports to be overrun anew by hundreds of innovative statistics that will rate players more accurately, almost certainly affect their compensation and perhaps alter how the game itself is played.

Teams have begun scrambling to develop uses for the new data, which will be unveiled Saturday to a group of baseball executives, statisticians and academics, knowing it will probably become the largest single advance in baseball science since the development of the box score.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/sports/baseball/10cameras.html?hp

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can i get a grant 2 study baseball science

is there an ilbb thread abt box score lines that boggle the mind?

nolan ryan 6/17/74 vs bos: 13.0 IP 8 H 3 ER 10 BB 19 K (W 4-3)

jesus luis tiant was the opposing pitcher in that game and pitched 14.1 innings.

Time of Game: 4:02.

Back when men were men, etc.