- They are able to make a more precise measurement for homers that land in the upper deck or hit light towers, because they calculate how far the ball would have flown had it landed back at field level.
- Suh-weet! The page also includes a link to videos of the blasts.
- MLB claims the longest HR of the year was Ryan Howard's blast on April 23rd, but Hit Tracker says that one was exaggerated by thirty feet. According to their methodology, the longest dinger was supplied by Florida's Reggie Abercrombie
- Their system also adjusts for the wind, the temperature and the altitude of the park.
- There are all sorts of obscure facts, some of which may actually be useful. For example, slugger Jim Thome, although dominating the AL in the homer race, seems to have been losing bat speed since April 10th. His first four dingers of the season were generated by bat speed of 120+, but he's now in the 105 range
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
HitTracker :: Home run tracking and distance measurement by calculating the trajectory and the speed off the bat
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