What is the the Pitch F/X system exactly? It's the same system that television stations use during the Major League Baseball games in order to show to the public, if the pitch is a ball or strike.
Albert Park will have three cameras in order to assess the trajectory of the field, and the former major leaguer Eric Byrnes, who happens to be an avid auto-referee supporter, announces the ball.
Indeed Eric Byrnes is creating a bit of noise with regards to the use of Pitch F/X, this three-camera tracking system. According to Wired, this is the first time that a professional ball game has been called without an umpire.
There will be two referees on the field, one of which is behind the home plate. They will be in charge of everything, except for calling the balls and the strikes.
So, how did it go? Byrnes has called it a success on his Instagram page and wants automated strike zones to replace the arbitrators permanently in MLB.
"They can focus on other things," Kavanaugh said. "It might help some umpires sitting back there and seeing what balls are called strikes and what balls."
Kavanaugh, a former catcher, said that he has always been against the robotic arbitrage, but recently flipped his stance.
But Sportvision has stuck with it's claim that Pitch F/X should exclusively be used to gather pace, the speed, the position and the movement of data. Sportivision is a California-based company, which debuted the first yellow-down marker seen during football broadcasts.
Installed in all 30 major league baseball parks, Pitch F/X data can be used after the games to review a referee's performance - just not replace them, not for now at least.
Albert Park will have three cameras in order to assess the trajectory of the field, and the former major leaguer Eric Byrnes, who happens to be an avid auto-referee supporter, announces the ball.
Indeed Eric Byrnes is creating a bit of noise with regards to the use of Pitch F/X, this three-camera tracking system. According to Wired, this is the first time that a professional ball game has been called without an umpire.
There will be two referees on the field, one of which is behind the home plate. They will be in charge of everything, except for calling the balls and the strikes.
So, how did it go? Byrnes has called it a success on his Instagram page and wants automated strike zones to replace the arbitrators permanently in MLB.
"They can focus on other things," Kavanaugh said. "It might help some umpires sitting back there and seeing what balls are called strikes and what balls."
Kavanaugh, a former catcher, said that he has always been against the robotic arbitrage, but recently flipped his stance.
But Sportvision has stuck with it's claim that Pitch F/X should exclusively be used to gather pace, the speed, the position and the movement of data. Sportivision is a California-based company, which debuted the first yellow-down marker seen during football broadcasts.
Installed in all 30 major league baseball parks, Pitch F/X data can be used after the games to review a referee's performance - just not replace them, not for now at least.