Help: Which Ballpark Score Boards Are the Most Saber-Friendly?
by Sky Kalkman on May 28, 2009 8:00 PM EDT
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PrintI posted this question in a recent FanShot, but figured it deserved a bit more fanfare. Since we get fans of all teams around these parts, I figured it wouldn't be too hard to find answers for all thirty teams.
In the comments, start a thread for each stadium you've been to (please label the team, too, for convenience) and list the saber-friendly stats they have on their main score board or other smaller boards. Yes, let's list stuff as basic as OBP, because it isn't listed everywhere. Even pitch counts and ball/strike counts are interesting. Anywhere have UZR listed yet? (Kidding.)
Thanks for your help. I'll make this a Featured Story so you can find it over in the right sidebar for a while.
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Most? Do they show ponies instead for Yuni to distract fans?
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
oh, I should also note
They’ll give a quick flash of the speed on most pitches, and even will show pitch counts in the middle/late innings for the starters. Very modern. And we have troughs.
by Harry Pavlidis on May 29, 2009 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions
This is from 2005 (click to enlarge):
That’s the only Citizens Bank Park scoreboard picture I have.
by Crashburn Alley on May 28, 2009 9:19 PM EDT reply actions
Nationals Park
Say what you want about everything else, we have a kick-butt scoreboard. OBP and SLG are featured on the message boards on the side. We get pitch count. That’s about it.
Citizen’s Bank has pitch type in real time, which I really appreciated.
It seems like the Nationals have a nice ballpark
a really smart fanbase, and a sabermetrically inclined manager. It’s a shame that the team sucks.
St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008
by vivaelpujols on May 29, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
PNC Park
PNC Park has OBP, SLG, and that’s about it for hitters.
Pitch F/X data was added this year, though. Velocity, vertical break and horizontal break are provided, at least the last time I was there. They have been toying around with it a bit throughout the year.
Sorry, no picture.
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Wow, horizontal and vertical breaks? Sweet.
No need for photos, although they’re cool if people have them.
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
by Sky Kalkman on May 28, 2009 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Every park has access to it
Some “stadium guns” are already PITCHf/x speed. I hadn’t heard about break anywhere. Awesome.
by Harry Pavlidis on May 28, 2009 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions
You should've heard the Brewers announcers talking about this during our series in PIT earlier this year
They wouldn’t shut up about the lasers and then they kept on raving about how Suppan’s changeup had zero vertical movement.
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are you serious?
I’m stuck with Dan and Al talking about how getting Chris Carpenter back from an injury is like trading for an ace.
St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008
by vivaelpujols on May 29, 2009 1:17 AM EDT up reply actions
you know it really is.
"The two most important things in life: good friends and a strong bullpen." - Gibson
by davethebutcher on May 29, 2009 2:29 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
At the opener...
I believe they had velocity at release point, velocity at 40 feet, velocity at home and simply “break.” Every pitch had the virtually the same velocity at 40 feet as it did at the release point, so they adjusted it pretty quickly.
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I'm guessing they dont show pitch location.
Methinks fans would start to go ballistic if they were shown a graphic every time they got screwed on a strike zone call.
by FlaskInSafeco on May 31, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
The Ballpark in Arlington
A batter’s first time up, they show a detailed breakdown of his offensive stats, including the traditional big three, OBP, slugging, runs, doubles, triples…
Each subsequent PA, they show his average and what he’s done in his earlier PAs.
When a pitcher is on the mound, they keep a running count of total pitches, balls, and strikes that is up whenever that pitcher is pitching.
by Adam J. Morris on May 28, 2009 11:02 PM EDT reply actions
My made up team, the Jackofasaurouses, show FIP, BABIP and wOBA
St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008
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by Zach Sanders on May 29, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Pro Robbie Dolphin Shark Stadium
may be a poor place to watch a baseball game, but the new scoreboard is pretty great. Slash stats, including handy OPS addition; H/2B/3B/HR season totals; “fun fact” for batters; pitcher’s balls/strikes/total; pitch speed; and traditional scoring of each play (which is then used for hitters instead of “singled, struck out”-style history), which I really hope they carry over for the new ballpark.
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Miller Park
has boards around the park displaying pitch count (with balls & strikes), speed (might also have the type of pitch), as well as the pitcher’s K, BB and WHIP. I don’t remember off the top of my head what they have for hitters.
by richardhkirkando on May 29, 2009 7:56 AM EDT reply actions
OBP is on the main screen
There’s an OPS tracker behind home plate on the ribbon board.
Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.
Turner Field
Turner will show the OBP and SLG before their first at bat, then show only the common stats and previous at bat results the remainder of the game. On the LF wall they have a dedicated scoreboard to the pitcher’s pitch count and balls/strikes count. Pitch Speed is also displayed above the 755 club.
by carmine_riccardi on May 29, 2009 8:19 AM EDT reply actions
Citi Field
also has the standard HR/RBI/AVG/OBP/SLG and then just the player recap and some situational stats as the game progresses. Pitch ID and velocity on the side boards.
But the most egregious offense was that they still hadn’t figured out how to keep a cumulative balls, strikes, and strikeouts tally on the same scoreboard. They might’ve fixed it since I last attended, but it’s been fairly maddening so far.
Tropicana Field
may not be part of the new-retro-yuppie wave, but is a decent place to watch a game if that’s what you come for. They show OBP, SLG, OPS for hitters, H/9, BB/9, K/9 for pitchers.
by st pete (not tampa) on Jun 4, 2009 9:27 AM EDT reply actions
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