Wheelhouse
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:21 pm
I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a little while now.
I was going to build an app that would generate/draw a batter's wheelhouse based on the location of the ball in (or out) of the strike zone when he/she swings. Pitch location where the batter tends to always make solid contact would be drawn darker than the pitch locations where the batter tends to swing but not necessarily make contact.
My plan would be to feed this information to the coach calling the pitches so that we can try to avoid a batter's wheelhouse by pitching around it (to the spots that the batter seems to favor but can never find the ball).
The problem I've been having is that I can't seem to get my OS-X VM working correctly, so I can't use the SDK to develop the app.
I was thinking that since you already keep track of pitch location (if the scorer chooses to do so), that maybe this is something you may be able to be built into iScore?
The result would be something like my son's video games:
http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/artic ... 818454.jpg
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/artic ... 876611.jpg
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/artic ... 876699.jpg
Keep up the good work guys!!!
I was going to build an app that would generate/draw a batter's wheelhouse based on the location of the ball in (or out) of the strike zone when he/she swings. Pitch location where the batter tends to always make solid contact would be drawn darker than the pitch locations where the batter tends to swing but not necessarily make contact.
My plan would be to feed this information to the coach calling the pitches so that we can try to avoid a batter's wheelhouse by pitching around it (to the spots that the batter seems to favor but can never find the ball).
The problem I've been having is that I can't seem to get my OS-X VM working correctly, so I can't use the SDK to develop the app.
I was thinking that since you already keep track of pitch location (if the scorer chooses to do so), that maybe this is something you may be able to be built into iScore?
The result would be something like my son's video games:
http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/artic ... 818454.jpg
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/artic ... 876611.jpg
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/artic ... 876699.jpg
Keep up the good work guys!!!