Comments on: Bloomberg Sports: Professional Tool

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:18:33 +0000

Hey Dave interesting to read people’s thoughts on your blog versus what was being said within the Twitter feed. I thought there was a lot of ideas that were already well-established, but then again Bloomberg did have a couple outside the box ideas. I don’t want to rush to judgment in terms of the fantasy product until I’ve had an opportunity to give it a test drive, but I think it will be a useful tool. Whether it’s worth $31.95 is the question.

By: Ben George

Ben George — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:25:13 +0000

All this really is is a conversion of the current dashboards for business utilities applied to a different data warehouse.

It is not the fact that application of the data in this format is a major change from what is out there in the business world. The important part is that the fact the companies are willing to create this for the MLB and that there is a major market for it. The next area will be subscription only versions available for non-MLB end users off of a cloud computing platform. The real question is going to be how much $$ would it cost for implementation of this on a consumer scale and would it be profitable.

This is just a bet GUI than what is used by those with access to DiamondView with offsite support running the data collection and data cleansing.

Welcome to the ever changing world of Business Intelligence solutions.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:19:42 +0000

As a financial industry professional with a Bloomberg terminal on my desk, I wonder if there is any way possible I can sneak this expense by our data services team. Hmmm… I trade FX, this uses PitchFX, do you think anyone will notice?

By: JayCee

JayCee — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:05:04 +0000

ESPN offers some similar data on a free basis.

By: barry

barry — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:51:49 +0000

Well, people will pay so they don’t have to take the time to process the information themselves.

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:11:23 +0000

Well, that pie chart thingy with the pitch types is a breakdown of pitch sequencing, which can then be drilled down again and again. To me it seems like they basically turned the pitchf/x data base into a highly customized OLAP type tool where you can drill down very far into one particular element. It's not apparent in the screen shots, but it appeared from the demo you could basically click on anything and it would take you to a new layer of data. Have to give Bloomberg props for creating a super slick interface.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:58:54 +0000

Dave,

You’re simply amazing. That’s all I have to say. =)

And yes, it DOES seem like overkill – I’m curious what the extra information some of the slicing and dicing supposedly includes is..

Some of the sites allude to some fairly advanced sounding stuff being involved.

By: Sandy Kazmir

Sandy Kazmir — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:22:32 +0000

Why do these guys want to put Dave Allen out of a job? I seriously hope people aren’t paying for something that doesn’t take much time if you have any Excel skills.

By: vivaelpujols

vivaelpujols — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:43:27 +0000

For RHH I use -1 and +1 feet horizontally and for LHH I use -1.121 and .875 feet. I use the average value of the sz_bot and sz_top given for each hitter for the vertical. Use the average (or median) value, because the operators aren’t really accurate on a at bat by at bat basis, and there are some glitches as well.

By: NEPP

NEPP — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:07:00 +0000

Pretty amazing.