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Perfect Follow-Up to Astro's Thread: LSU Early Adopters of Advanced Stats
Posted on 3/18/16 at 11:10 am
Posted on 3/18/16 at 11:10 am
The Advocate - By Chandler Rome
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For the teams that can afford this luxury, this is the future of college baseball. Twenty-nine programs, including LSU, Mississippi State, TCU, Vanderbilt and South Carolina, use Sydex BATS — an advanced scouting video software program that, among other things, allows teams to cut recorded games pitch-by-pitch, sorting the results by count, pitch type, hit type and creating spray charts for each player.
TrackMan, a radar-measured tracking system of spin rates and velocities — both on balls off the bat and out of a pitcher’s hand — that offered LSU and former director of baseball operations Ross Brezovsky the program as part of a collegiate pilot program in 2012.
As cleared by the NCAA Compliance office, Major League Baseball subsidized the data collected from the 12 schools that participated in the program. Brezovsky was then tasked with presenting the proposal to Paul Mainieri — his traditionalist boss and former coach who, to that point, had been averse to the technologies starting to invade baseball.
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Posted on 3/18/16 at 11:40 am to ell_13
OP, can you send this to the SEC rant? Sorry, IT challenged here & I want to get some opinions over there. Especially from the league schools who can't/don't use it. Thanks
Posted on 3/18/16 at 11:41 am to Keltic Tiger
Sure. I can make another thread there. 
Posted on 3/18/16 at 12:10 pm to ell_13
ell posting a chandler rome article; classic.
Posted on 3/18/16 at 12:17 pm to SouthOfSouth
I purposefully put his name in the link title. 
Posted on 3/18/16 at 12:22 pm to ell_13
Here is my response on the SEC board:
The implementation is also being subsidized by MLB. So while the benefits to the colleges are outlined well in the article (recruiting to an extent, and opponent scouting), the big advantage is to the MLB clubs that get more data for draft evaluations.
Because there is no way they're subsidizing it without an info share agreement.
I still like it though, and there will probably be more advantages to come from it longer the college teams can play around with it.
If I were a school like UL-Lafayette, I'd try to get the system installed at my field. They host a bunch of JUCO games throughout the year (central location, turf field) and could use that as an evaluation advantage for recruiting JUCO kids.
The implementation is also being subsidized by MLB. So while the benefits to the colleges are outlined well in the article (recruiting to an extent, and opponent scouting), the big advantage is to the MLB clubs that get more data for draft evaluations.
Because there is no way they're subsidizing it without an info share agreement.
I still like it though, and there will probably be more advantages to come from it longer the college teams can play around with it.
If I were a school like UL-Lafayette, I'd try to get the system installed at my field. They host a bunch of JUCO games throughout the year (central location, turf field) and could use that as an evaluation advantage for recruiting JUCO kids.
Posted on 3/18/16 at 12:32 pm to ProjectP2294
I brought this up in the other thread as well...
MLB players definitely use the stats to help with their approach and swing. It's not just a tool for coaches. I get it though; PM sounded almost threatened by the technology.
Trackman is much better known for its uses in golf. Video recording along with radar data to track swing speed, ball speed, and spin are amazing tools to help not just make adjustments but get the feedback you need immediately to see the affects of those adjustments. As a player, I'd kill for that info and ability.
MLB players definitely use the stats to help with their approach and swing. It's not just a tool for coaches. I get it though; PM sounded almost threatened by the technology.
Trackman is much better known for its uses in golf. Video recording along with radar data to track swing speed, ball speed, and spin are amazing tools to help not just make adjustments but get the feedback you need immediately to see the affects of those adjustments. As a player, I'd kill for that info and ability.
Posted on 3/18/16 at 1:20 pm to ell_13
they are also using some Driveline methods for the pitcher(weighted balls and such)s, according to Driveline's instagram.
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