The largest growth area was as an entertainment product. Major League Baseball and the World Umpires Association, meanwhile, began preliminary discussions about how VR could be used in umpire training. At least two new elite-performance vendors, Monsterful VR and Trinity VR (through is Diamond FX product) entered the scene.
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While the Tampa Bay Rays were among the clubs already using VR to prepare their hitters to face certain pitchers, the Arizona Diamondbacks revealed that they were looking seriously into it as well. Intel produced a weekly national game in VR on Samsung’s platform, while NESN became the first regional sports network to experiment with a few games produced by Intel’s crew. VR seeped into every sector of the baseball experience this season: broadcast, game preparation, instruction and fan engagement. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) 2.
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This home run by the Astros’ Jose Altuve during World Series Game 5 had a 33-degree launch angle and 104.7 mph exit velocity, traveling 415 feet. Statcast also supplanted Pitch F/X in powering the umpire’s Zone Evaluation system (a tool for reviewing ball/strike calls) and in providing pitch velocities (causing some early season confusion when speeds spiked a bit). Statcast didn’t stop there at defining the conversation around the game, adding metrics like catch probability and hit probability based on a batted ball’s speed, location and hang time compared with past data. The phrase, popularized by the radar-powered Statcast tracking tech, depicts the trajectory of the ball leaving the bat, with 24 degrees as the optimal launch angle for a home run. Major league teams slugged a record 6,105 home runs this season - smashing the previous mark by more than 400 - as the term “launch angle” permeated the dugout’s daily discourse. Here are SportTechie’s starting lineup of top storylines for the year that was: 1.
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Their sensibilities were an appropriate capstone to a 2017 Major League Baseball season full of advancements. Baseball’s most innovative franchise, the Houston Astros, triumphed over a Los Angeles Dodgers roster assembled by a front office with several Ph.D.’s in what was undoubtedly the most data-driven World Series to date.