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Friday, September 04, 2009Yet another baseball statIn an amusing article at the Wall Street Journal, David Biderman takes a peak at how many words per minute different baseball broadcasters speak during a game (look for FanGraphs to start tracking WPM in the near future). The study is by no means scientific, so all you people who love to scream "small sample size" are henceforth forewarned. I live in New York, but for some reason I get WGN as part of my TV package, which shows Cubs and White Sox games. About a month ago I watched the same Yankees-White Sox game on both YES (the Yankees broadcasting station) and WGN, and couldn't help but notice that YES sounded like my school's dining hall while WGN sounded like its library. These numbers don't confirm that, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. Pitch f/x nomenclatureI've always been an avid reader of baseball analysis and sabermetrics. Pitch f/x in both research studies and on Gameday has been a specific point of interest, although I've never gotten around to doing any research (of consequence) of my own. But the main thing on Gameday that always bothered me was the column in the pitch-by-pitch section titled "BRK" which stands for "break." I had been reading pitch f/x studies before I noticed this "BRK" column, and realized it was different than either the horizontal movement or vertical movement that had been quoted in those articles. Well I went on for months not really knowing what BRK actually meant. It was never quoted anywhere, so I figured it must not be important. I eventually asked Mike Fast to explain it to me, and it was pretty damn simple. I felt kind of embarrassed I had never taken the time to figure it out before or ask anybody what it actually meant in real terms. For those of you who were in the same predicament as I was a long while back, I'd like to share this piece by Dave Allen over at The Baseball Analysts, which explains the difference between break and movement. For the sake of Mike Fast's inbox, I suggest you go ahead and check it out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||