For the first installation in San Francisco last year, Sportvision, whose labs are in nearby...

For the first installation in San Francisco last year, Sportvision, whose labs are in nearby Mountain View, worked directly with the Giants, under BAM’s oversight, to get permission to test the technology.

In return, the Giants received exclusive access to the data. BAM arranged this year’s installations -- already in place at Yankee Stadium and in San Diego, and under way in Kansas City and Tampa.

The Royals are one of the early teams to Field f/x installed?

Full article here about Field f/x

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by Warden11 on Apr 15, 2011 8:10 PM EDT reply actions

no way

that’s awesome. honestly surprised we’d be part of the “first in” crowd

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by AtTheWall on Apr 16, 2011 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions

Also thought this was interesting from the link:

If he could, of course, Tippett would keep the information exclusive to the Red Sox, but Fieldf/x only becomes truly useful as a leaguewide data set, so teams will have to share.

For the heavily analytical teams, the competition is not with other teams, but with bloggers. Those clubs, said Gennaro, will like their chances in a race restricted to a field of 30.

"A team at the bottom of the food chain," he said, "would benefit grossly from [Fieldf/x] being in the blogosphere."

So teams like Boston want it kept private because they have faith in their analytics dept being ahead of the competition.

Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
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by Warden11 on Apr 16, 2011 8:08 AM EDT reply actions