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Originally Posted by mbyron
With New System, Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball’s Unseen Skills - NYTimes.com
"A new camera and software system in its final testing phases will record the exact speed and location of the ball and every player on the field, allowing the most digitized of sports to be overrun anew by hundreds of innovative statistics that will rate players more accurately, almost certainly affect their compensation and perhaps alter how the game itself is played."
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anything that actually works properly and will hold the umpires accountable is a good thing and will only make the game better, not worse. This reminds me of union rules that forbid stopwatches on workshop floors bc it might make the workers feel pressured into actually working hard.