And you thought QuesTec was bad for baseball...

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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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Interesting software. It will defiantly be a help to managers and coaches who know how to use it. It might even find it's way into umpiring as a means of training and evaluation. But either still seems a long way off.