Technology, namely the iPad, is changing the way the game is played

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/6908844/information-age-changing-way-game-played

by billyarzt • 15 years ago

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Bud• 15 years ago

This 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• 15 years ago

To save anyone else from my mistake, this is about baseball, not the game Go. :)

evgen• 15 years ago

I 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• 15 years ago

offtopic, 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• 15 years ago

Sorry, 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• 15 years ago

Players 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• 15 years ago

Think 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.

Technology, namely the iPad, is changing the way the game is played

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