Basketball: use of in-game sensors
From the New York Times, an article on use of in-game sensors on players' jerseys and inside the balls to track movement during New Mexico's state high school championships.
"The New Mexico championships produced the kind of statistics that die-hard N.B.A., W.N.B.A. or N.C.A.A. fans would find familiar: Color-coded dots showing where shots were taken. How many times a particular player touched the ball. What each player’s plus-minus rating was. Which player was most effective (or not) at contesting shots or defending the rim."
I'm curious what MGoStatheads think.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/sports/high-school-basketball-shot-tracking-technology.html
They should put a chip in my butt to determine the size of my poops
In all seriousness though they need to put a chip in the ball to make it easier to determine first downs, out of bounds, and that sort of thing.
I don't know though because they could also put a chip in my butt
I like the poop chip idea. Your other idea is crap.
10.1.1Though no tech wizard, I'd suggest that no chip is needed to determine the size of your poop. (As any kid knows, weighing yourself before and after you poop = poop size.)
However, a chip in your butt might generate statistics of preparation time, trajectory, and speed.
More sophisticated technology might also ascertain degree of anal retentiveness.
As any kid knows, weighing yourself before and after you poop = poop size
Not so fast my friend. You forgot the urine. I don't know anyone that poops without also taking a piss. So poop size = (pre-poop weight - post-poop weight) - weight of urine excreted.
Depending on the amount of effort, there may have been some weight loss from sweating, caloric burn, etc. as well.
Edit: and don't forget the most important step. You need to convert from Courics to Pounds (1 Couric = 2.5 pounds)
This is why you pee in a cup and poop in a bowl. Duh. Chamberpots are in again.
Eventually "They" will put a chip in your butt.
SMH. Again with the “chip in the football”?
The location of the ball is only one component of “spotting” the football. A chip won’t be able to determine when a player is down. Or whether a knee was down first. Or an elbow.
As for the OOB, same thing. You’re gonna need chips on all parts of the player. Not to mention a field with a grid that is 100% accurate to the chalk marking the sidelines and end zones.
As for your poop, by size do you mean width only or length too?
If football is still being played 40 years from now—I don't think it's necessarily a given—I believe the footballs will be chipped, players' uniforms will be equipped with chips, and all fields will be extensively gridded with sensors to detect where the positions of the balls and the players are at any given moment. The data collected will be handled by AI systems, and onfield referees will be mainly concerned with infractions and penalties.
This is a really depressing thought... I don't like the thought of completely sterile, non-subjective calls in a sporting contest. Sure.. "The Spot" in 2016 was controversial to most UM fans, but OSU received the same treatment in 2019 playing Clemson... a few "controversial calls" in fact. What else would fans have to do if arguing about calls and playing the "what if" card was taken away from us!?! I get enough data analytics (Excel, PowerBI, etc.) at work... I prefer some good old judgement calls in football, even when my team is on the short end of stick.
Stewart Mandel has often mentioned the chip idea. Besides what you mention, I believe others have responded that actually chips with that kind of accuracy and aren't as cheap and easy as people like to believe despite it being past THE YEAR 2000.
Cool Story Bro: I did a deal with the CEO of ShotTracker, Davyeon Ross, when he was the CEO/Founder of an online video clip company. I talked to the guy for six months and thought he was a normal sized person and when I met him in person he was a 6'8" former basketball player. Super smart and nice guy.
Apply statistics/machine learning/big data to problems is all the rage right now (and the past 10+ years because computers have the power to churn the data. The problem is that other than black box things like A/B testing people most often don't know what to do with the data. You also have the issue of mastering the basics. People have a hard enough time showing up to work on time, being sober, getting along, etc. being able to fine tune is difficult. For sports, something like shot tracker though might be able to quickly identify problems so that you at least know what they are.
It's also really cool from a sports data perspective.
Anyone that got the Covid vaccine already has a chip in them.
/s
This only counts if you got the shot in your butt.
in-game sensors on players' jerseys and inside the balls
Inside the what?!? Ohhhhhh basketballs
Or just balls. Urologists watch out ...
I am in favor of more sensors.
Makes senso, sensei.
Censors?
Apple can turn the entire field into a touch-screen - only about 1.5 million Apple 11 phones placed together. When the ref has a question, instead of spending all that time behind the wizard's curtain, he just dials the number of the relevant player and watches which phones pick up.