The Baseball Analytics Arms Race

How the analytics arms race between teams has developed and what it has produced

The Race

The baseball analytics arms race -- the competition between teams to develop the most sophisticated analytical systems for player evaluation, pitching sequencing, defensive positioning, and in-game decision-making -- has proceeded to the point where the tools that represented competitive advantage five years ago are now the baseline that every team employs, and the competitive advantage has moved to the specific proprietary innovations that the teams at the analytical frontier are developing and not disclosing.

The Frontier

The current frontier: the specific tracking data applications that Statcast enables but that the publicly available Statcast metrics do not capture; the biomechanical analysis of pitcher mechanics that the high-speed camera systems permit; and the specific machine learning applications to sequencing, matchup exploitation, and roster construction that the teams with the most sophisticated engineering capacity are developing.

On Deck News Coverage

The On Deck News covers the analytics arms race because the accountability journalism of baseball development requires examining how the teams that are winning are doing it, and because the analytics competition has become the primary competitive dimension of team construction in the current era.

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