Hawk-Eye Tennis Officiating System

[loup garou]

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Very cool, my gf and I were trying to figure out how it works when we were at the Open last week. I figured there were some sort of sensors under the paint, but it seems to be all high-speed cameras.

It's unreal how fast the call is made and the computer-generated recreation is brought up on the monitors. I love the way the officials have asked the technicians to delay it to build suspense. :laugh:

 

[chuckywang]

Tennis has it got it right. I hate how MLB scoffs at any sort of instant replay system just because it's not in "the tradition of the game" or "human error is part of the game."

NO IT FREAKING ISN'T. If there is any system that only marginally slows down the momentum of the game (there hardly isn't any momentum in baseball anyways), while improving accuracy and fairness, then that can only be a good thing for the sport. How can you argue against any system that minimizes error?

Home run replays, close calls at the plate, close plays at first, stealing second base, running outside the baselines, these things can all be benefited from an instant replay system.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

im a fairly new tennis fan... the replay system is well done for sure

 

[mrrman]

I am glad that it is there as ther game of tennis is so fast and there are so many close calls

 

[Furyline]

I am curious about how accurate it is. I just find it suspicious when a ball is in by like 1 or 2 pixels.

 

[xtknight]

Why does the umpire even exist when they can just use this stuff? They should have a computer automatically score the whole match and track every ball. Now that would be cool.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Tennis has it got it right. I hate how MLB scoffs at any sort of instant replay system just because it's not in "the tradition of the game" or "human error is part of the game."

NO IT FREAKING ISN'T. If there is any system that only marginally slows down the momentum of the game (there hardly isn't any momentum in baseball anyways), while improving accuracy and fairness, then that can only be a good thing for the sport. How can you argue against any system that minimizes error?

Home run replays, close calls at the plate, close plays at first, stealing second base, running outside the baselines, these things can all be benefited from an instant replay system.

Balls and strikes!!! Home plate could be a sensor/camera, coordinated with one each for right and left handed batters off to the side. Heights of the side sensors could be established for every batter before the game.

It would destroy the beauty of the game somewhat, but would keep me from throwing a shoe at the TV.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Squisher
Balls and strikes!!! Home plate could be a sensor/camera, coordinated with one each for right and left handed batters off to the side. Heights of the side sensors could be established for every batter before the game.

It would destroy the beauty of the game somewhat, but would keep me from throwing a shoe at the TV.

i think it would lead to a lot more offense in baseball, if such a system were in place. seems to me that plenty of balls no where near the plate are called strikes.

 

[everman]

This would be great for baseball, but it would need to be able to calibrate itself quickly for each individual player because of slight height differences (to call strikes). In tennis it's always dealing with a standard size court.

 

[yosuke188]

It works well in tennis because you challenge one thing only: whether the ball is in or out. It doesn't slow the game down at all, and they got a pretty good system about how many challenges you get.

I just can't imagine it working well in baseball. Do the players call the challenge? Or does the manager come out of the dugout and challenge a ball call? You are going to be watching every pitch to see if it's a strike or a ball, and there's like 300 pitches combined in a game. It would drive everyone insane.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: Furyline
I am curious about how accurate it is. I just find it suspicious when a ball is in by like 1 or 2 pixels.

It is accurate to +/- 3 mm.

 

[BrokenVisage]

I like it, they've used this method in those gimmicky tennis tournaments and would throw some kind of rubber chicken on to the court to get a challenge heh. But it worked good and the system looks pretty accurate to me.