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PA Software Uses Your iPhone Camera and Machine Learning To Generate High-Quality Baseball Analytics
Baseball arguably has the deepest game analytics out of any major league sport. These insights are only generated during games using expensive, specialized equipment and a team of expert baseball statisticians. It would be impossible to generate similar statistics in real-time for amateur competition or recreational play. However, one avid baseball fan has built two smartphone applications to allow recreational baseball players to generate these statistics as they practice and play.
Matthew Bowen is the founder of PA Software, a baseball video analytics software startup that brings the power and accuracy of multi-million dollar Major League Baseball analytics systems to your smartphone. Bowen got the idea for developing phone-driven baseball analysis software during his freshman year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He was watching an Atlanta Braves game with friends when ESPN’s K-Zone popped up on screen to showcase where the ball passed through the ‘strike-box.’ Many people have railed against the K-Zone being a permanent fixture on TV screens during baseball games, but Bowen saw a problem that had yet to be solved.
During an official baseball game, these baseball statistics are generated by teams of professional statisticians either…
