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the misinformation regarding technology in this thread is hilarious. everyone seems to think they know more than the next guy when they don't know [censored].

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any solution that required RFID chips to be put into every potential ball and in every single uniform worn by every potential player is going to be very expensive.

it also invites the potential for tomfoolery - you can't let teams have access to the RFID chips. there's far too much money at stake to think that someone out there wouldn't try to fiddle with them.

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lol @ using RFID. this isn't what RFID is for. we don't need to identify balls or players. it's not hard to figure out who's at the plate without RFID. and who cares which particular ball is in use?

and what would the teams do if they had access to the RFID chips? would they fool the system into thinking that mickey mouse is at the plate? i think that would be easy to detect.

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30fps would give you enough precision to be better than the current system...


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No.

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lol. the technology exists to do much better than 30 fps. even if it didn't you could always have multiple cameras.

besides, if you can find out the ball's "exact" location @ 30 fps (every 4-5 feet), you can easily call strikes and balls much better than an umpire with simple linear interpolation. using a second or higher order approximation you can do a lot better.



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It could not be done in real time. It could be done kind of quickly maybe, but not real time.

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redrover pointed this out already, but wtf is this based on? you guys are hilarious. such a system could call strikes and balls way faster than an umpire. the calculation could be finished before the ball hits the catcher's mitt.