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Technology, namely the iPad, is changing the way the game is played
- Bud 15y agoThis is a really fantastic article. Enough detail to be interesting even to hardcore sabermetric geeks. A good look at how the iPad is changing yet another industry.
- starwed 15y agoTo save anyone else from my mistake, this is about baseball, not the game Go. :)
- evgen 15y agoI think I was three paragraphs in and wondering when they would shift from how the iPad was changing the game of baseball to how it was also impacting the game of go...
- brianbreslin 15y agoofftopic, i wish HN would show the full domain (espn.go.com instead of go.com). on topic. this was a good post, I'm surprised michael lewis' moneyball isn't more popular amongst HN readers + baseball fans.
- pandaassembly 15y agoSorry, but non of the analysis in regard to sport statistics is relying on the IPad. The trend towards excessive sport statistics and individual player analysis is not now. Look for example at proffessional soccer teams. I expect that all major baseball teams have been doing this for years, the only change happening now is that with the Ipad bringing a good user experience to non tech affine persons, this information is also actively getting used by players. All in all, I strongly dislike the head line of this article, as it is in my opinion, missleading.
- joelhooks 15y agoPlayers having instant access to up to the minute stats in a format they can easily understand (while holding it in their hands) is going to affect the game. Is it excessive? I dunno. It is pretty cool.
- billyarzt 15y agoThink the real value comes from combining the quantitative with the qualitative. Players can examine stats and then observe how they came to be via video and graphical visualization.
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