An early look at HITf/x -- The Hardball Times

I broke down some HITf/x in an early look at the sample data. Focus is on initial speed and launch angles, and this is just the beginning.

about 1 year ago Harry Pavlidis 12 comments 4 recs |

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Awesome stuff Harry

have you slept since downloading the data?

by JBrew on Jun 9, 2009 9:59 AM EDT reply actions

Man, that is cool

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by FreeZorilla on Jun 9, 2009 10:18 AM EDT reply actions

Harry -- You trying to break my record of for Words/Graph ratio?

Great work

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by Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal) on Jun 9, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions

Graphs throw-down!

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by Sky Kalkman on Jun 9, 2009 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions

graphs are good

words are sometimes required, though

I have slept, but I I just gave some hitf/x related business to my chiropractor. Not kidding. Follow-up adjustment on Friday before the Cubs game

by Harry Pavlidis on Jun 9, 2009 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

"words are sometimes required, though"

Yea I can see that as long as the words are on the Graph

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by Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal) on Jun 9, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions

cool...

This is really neat… One suggestion though, on the horizontal angle charts: reverse the x-axis so 135 (i.e., the third base line) is on the left

by breed13 on Jun 9, 2009 12:25 PM EDT reply actions

I noticed that after I posted it

I had to edit some text as a result.

by Harry Pavlidis on Jun 9, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I wrote something on amazinavenue about generating 4-D maps to better evaluate player defense http://www.amazinavenue.com/2009/6/8/903230/u-z-r. They referred me to this site and told me about HIT/Fx which is 50% of the data I need. In order to try to generate these maps I need to record hits as vectors, so I also need a location on a 2-D map. My questions are first, do you think this is a good idea, and second where can I find this data?

by Delgado on Jun 9, 2009 1:32 PM EDT reply actions

distance traveled on a 2-D map and second time traveled in the air.

Mike Fast, and others, are working on ways of estimating these values from hitf/x. Rather, work is underway to make the estimates more precise. Sportvision has started researching actual player tracking (FIELDf/x), so at least two approaches to the problem are being taken.

by Harry Pavlidis on Jun 9, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions