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I assume this is what lets baseball games show obscure factoids like "3rd in the NL West when facing left-handed pitchers on Tuesday"?
by mh- 2y ago
I assume this is what lets baseball games show obscure factoids like "3rd in the NL West when facing left-handed pitchers on Tuesday"?
- skipants 2y agoDefinitely. I have no experience in live game statistics, but from my sports content experience I bet there's data scientists and applications behind the scenes that specifically pull this data to be read on-air.
- michaelt 2y agoI imagine the primary customers of the data feeds are gambling companies who let people bet on matches that are in progress.
- awad 2y agoYou have the Elias Sports Bureau to thank for all the fun baseball stats out there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Sports_Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Sports_Bureau