Industries throughout our economy are adopting new, aggressive analytical approaches to decision-making. Professional sports – particularly baseball – are among those leading the way.
You only have to look at the back of a baseball card from decades ago to understand that the sport has a strong foundation in statistics. Its fans (customers) debate metrics all the time, even now more so with the rapid growth of fantasy baseball.
Coinciding with that interest is the explosion of raw data. Big Data. High-speed video equipment and Doppler radar installed in every major league park capture 120,000 bits per second.