Accuracy of TBS's Version of K-Zone

[Rich]

Originally Posted by tmagan

Eric Gregg was the first umpire I saw do that. Jerry Crawford also did it. Of course he never wore a coat behind the plate. I am surprised they let DeMuth do it considering over the last five years MLB has had a minor crackdown on player and umpire wardrobe, but I like it. It would be better with the blue shirt and the black long-sleeved undershirt.

GMAFB. It looks like crap no matter who does it.

[maven]

No system that represents the pitch as a point and the strike zone as a rectangle can possibly be accurate. Both the pitch and the zone are three-dimensional objects, and plotting a point on a plane simply will not provide enough information to evaluate the accuracy of a strike call (or non-call).

[APG]

From what I've read up on the pitch f/x the actual tracking of the ball (from release of the ball to it being caught), along with other information gathered (horizontal/vertical change, release speed, spin) is accurate to a high degree (with the knuckle ball being the outlier as far as ability to track a pitches full movement from release to catch). The issue with all this is how the strike zone is represented with each different pitcher.

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by maven

No system that represents the pitch as a point and the strike zone as a rectangle can possibly be accurate. Both the pitch and the zone are three-dimensional objects, and plotting a point on a plane simply will not provide enough information to evaluate the accuracy of a strike call (or non-call).

Exactly. The strike zone is a cube at the very least.

Rita