Re: Should balls and strikes be called electronically?
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REdrover - don't have to be an engineer to figure this out. A curve ball reaches home in about .45 seconds. .45*30=13.5. So we will have 13 frames for a pitch. 60.5/13=4.61. So for a curve ball we will be able to see pitch every 4.61 feet. Therefore this system would only be an aid for the human eye method and definitely not a stand alone solution.
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Interpolation will do better here than you seem to think. You're not going to have millimeter precision from 30fps but the bar for accuracy been set pretty low. Clearly, going to higher-speed cameras would be a good idea.
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