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Originally Posted by SAump
I feel the K-zone pitch tracker, or whatever name it goes by, has been a bit inconsistent.
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A friend who works for MASN was told how the Fox system works by one of his producers. Don't know how reliable all this is, but here's what he said.
ESPN uses basically the Questec system of 3 high cameras (also the technology used for tennis challenges).
For FOX, a guy in the truck draws a box where he believes the strike zone to be for that batter. From there the comedy continues. The pitch is tracked from a low center field camera, and a guy in the truck basically presses a STOP button when he believes the pitch to be across the plate on the replay. The computer then just freezes where the ball was on the camera at that point and puts a little mark there compared to the batter's already arbitrary assigned strike zone.
Just for everyone's information...
