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Apr 10 2019 03:25pm
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/a-new-study-of-mlb-pitch-calls-makes-a-strong-case-for-robotic-umpires/

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Boston University grad students analyzed more than four million pitches from 11 seasons of Major League Baseball (2008-2018), and the findings aren’t great for human umpires. According to the study, umps made 34,294 incorrect ball and strike calls in 2018. That works out to 14 blown calls per game and 1.6 per inning.
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Apr 10 2019 03:39pm
4 million divided by 34,294 works out to 1 in 116.6 pitches. Maybe I'm doing that math wrong but that's for sure not 14 per game
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Apr 10 2019 03:48pm
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4 million divided by 34,294 works out to 1 in 116.6 pitches. Maybe I'm doing that math wrong but that's for sure not 14 per game


That's > 4 million over 11 seasons lol. The 34,294 # is just for 2018... that's where your math is wrong.

Say they averaged 34,294 errors a season, for 10 seasons that's 342,940 errors i believe. So that would be roughly 8.57% (almost a tenth of time) umps are incorrect on ball/strike calls by my math.
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Apr 10 2019 03:50pm
Quote (AmineA @ 10 Apr 2019 14:48)
That's > 4 million over 11 seasons lol. The 34,294 # is just for 2018... that's where your math is wrong.

Say they averaged 34,294 errors a season, for 10 seasons that's 342,940 errors i believe. So that would be roughly 8.57% (almost a tenth of time) umps are incorrect on ball/strike calls by my math.


Ahhh yeah I didn't see that it was just for 2018. Yeah I could see them replacing the umps but at what point do you let human error be a part of sports? Would they replace nfl refs?
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Ahhh yeah I didn't see that it was just for 2018. Yeah I could see them replacing the umps but at what point do you let human error be a part of sports? Would they replace nfl refs?


Can't compare the 2 sports man... a strike zone shouldn't be a subjective thing. A strike should be a strike and a ball should be a ball.
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Apr 10 2019 04:09pm
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Can't compare the 2 sports man... a strike zone shouldn't be a subjective thing. A strike should be a strike and a ball should be a ball.


But then would they do different height strike zone for different sized players? I understand where you're coming from, it's just how far will they take it you know?
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But then would they do different height strike zone for different sized players? I understand where you're coming from, it's just how far will they take it you know?


A robot could formulate that with math fairly easily if that's the way you'd wanna go.
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Apr 11 2019 06:38pm
https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2019/04/robot-umpires-for-minor-league-baseball-to-be-implemented-gradually-this-season.html

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Apr 11 2019 07:32pm
If they could get rid of Hernandez first it'd a step in the right direction.
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Apr 11 2019 07:43pm
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If they could get rid of Hernandez first it'd a step in the right direction.


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