Economics
Baseball Set for Data Deluge as Player Monitoring Goes Hi-Tech
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On a Saturday morning in March, some 400 people crowd a conference room at the Boston Convention Center. Mostly men, and mostly paying customers, they are there to listen to six other guys talk about baseball statistics.
It’s day two of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, an annual gathering dubbed “Dorkapalooza” by ESPN’s Bill Simmons. The buzz from the panel is about something called Fieldf/x, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its April 4 issue.