MLB Advanced Media Sued Over Pitch-Tracking System

Back in the day, baseball was said to be “a game of inches.” Today it’s largely driven by statistical data, such as the length of home runs, bat speeds and the velocity of pitches. Over the last decade or so, in fact, fans have grown accustomed to knowing how fast the last pitch was. Now, the origins of the pitch-tracking technology used by Major League Baseball (MLB) has been questioned in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by SMT, parent of Sportsvision, creators of the pitch-tracking system Pitchf/x. The Pitch-Tracking Lawsuit At the start of the 2017 season, MLB began using a new pitch-tracking system which it claims was built in-house. The enhanced system is part of a larger player-tracking and data-collecting initiative, Statcast. In 2006, however, Sportsvision signed a contract with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) to create the pitch-tracking system Pitchf/x which was installed in every major league park by 2008. The system uses cameras to track the…

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