MLBAM Stats and Data Capture Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Baseball July 11, 2007 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 1 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW On-site data capture (MLB, Triple-A, minor league All-Star Games, Arizona Fall League and Hawaii Winter Baseball, Caribbean Series, World Baseball Classic and other events, etc.) Call-in system (Double-A, Full-Season and Short-Season A, Mexican Winter League) Scoresheets (Rookie and complex leagues, Caribbean winter leagues) Roster and schedule management Data validation and editing Historical data sourcing and integration MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 2 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Gameday, wireless and other live data products Syndication to ESPN and other media partners Pitch-by-pitch MLB and play-by-play data to all 30 MLB clubs "Universal stats reports" to MLB PR departments Minor league "private portal” detailed reports Ad hoc reports for MLB and minor league clubs MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 3 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture CLUB DATA DELIVERY Files sent daily via FTP in .csv and .txt format Play-by-play data Pre-game data Complete play-by-play Run and error details Detailed substitutions Ejections Injuries Post-game data Season-to-date summary data “Card 10” Batting Fielding Pitching Player bio Box score files Batting Pitching MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 4 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture PRIVATE PORTAL REPORTS MINOR LEAGUE OVERALL STATISTICS Overall Leaders Overall Leaders by Classification Overall Organizational Standings Day-by-Day Statistics for All Players Career Statistics for All Players ORGANIZATIONAL STATISTICS Yesterday's Boxscores Organizational Team Stats Organizational Game-by-Game Results Organizational League Standings Organizational League Leaders Organizational Home-Road Statistics Organizational Leaders Organizational Stats by Month GAME BOXSCORES AND PLAY BY PLAYS Boxscores (Wide, Narrow or Two-Column) Play by Play LEAGUE STATISTICS AND BOXSCORES Monthly Leaders Miscellaneous Team Stats Daily League Report League Standings League Leaders League Defensive Statistics Weekly League Leaders INDIVIDUAL TEAM STATISTICS Team Statistics Current Players Team Statistics All Players Team Situational Statistics Team Left-Right Statistics Team Home-Road Statistics Team Last 10-5 Game Statistics Team Game-by-Game Results Team Rosters Team Statistics by Month Team vs. Team Statistics MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 5 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture THE PITCH-F/X SYSTEM Optical tracking system captures detailed data describing pitch velocity, movement and location Outputs raw data as well as graphical renderings of pitch trajectory and strike zone Permanent installation of two cameras mounted in weather-tight enclosures Permanent power and video cabling between cameras and central computer, consistent with broadcast-quality connections Central computer mounted in operations area such as scoreboard control room MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 6 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture HOW DOES IT WORK? Two cameras at high home and high first base Each camera records ~60 images per second, roughly 30 total images per pitch Ball is tracked along entire trajectory from release point to termination Manual operator verifies data and performs routine maintenance MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 7 MLBAM Stats and Data Capture HOW DOES IT WORK? Data is transmitted back to a central computer that aggregates and interprets the data Software uses images to calculate equations of motion and determine the ball’s position at any point along the trajectory Manual operator evaluates data and can reject any invalid or incomplete data Accuracy is verified by computing offset between each camera’s measurement of each point along the trajectory: zero difference indicates system has accurately centered the pitch Pitch data also plotted against video to verify accuracy MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Proprietary & Confidential 8
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