Major League Baseball’s revolutionary Statcast technology has earned a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its collection and broadcast of advanced tracking statistics.
The Emmy will be jointly presented to all three members of the Statcast triumvirate: TrackMan, which provides its Doppler radars; ChyronHego, which offers both an optical-tracking system (called TRACAB) and broadcast visualization tools; and MLB Advanced Media, which oversees the final product and, among other roles, applies statistical algorithms and data.
Statcast proliferated baseball language and strategies for its insights into the game. Some have argued that its new hitting metrics like exit velocity and launch angle — which include the speed and direction of the baseball after contact with the bat — have crystallized long-standing teaching philosophies and contributed to the sport’s home run surge.