Comment by nonethewiser 19 hours ago
Totally anecdotal, but there are people who literally get paid to watch games and record what happens at every step. I used to have that job. This is how MLB, ESPN etc. have live updates which powers stuff like this.
I've been using these for about... 20 years or so.. https://www.reisnerscorekeeping.com/
I see these folks at giants games sometimes, they usually have a little mini golf pencil and a clipboard or something.
AI Commentary seems fun, especially when you can choose different personalities, biases, etc.
It’ll be a while before it can replace a true play-by-play announcer, but with seven second TV delay it’s maybe close to feasible.
The Finals is a video game with AI voiceover for its commentary, and it’s pretty engaging. I’d expect to see this in FIFA soon if it isn’t there already.
ESPN is already partly doing this with "SC For You" [1]. It gives you a personalized feed of sports clips, generated and narrated by AI that uses the voices of ESPN on-air talent.
[1] - https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40378137547796-Wh...
Yeah baseball scorekeeping is an interesting part of the game.
Is it fun to get paid to watch baseball or does the constant live updating take the joy out of it?
Don't know about baseball, but in other sports there are people who are paid to watch and hit buttons to help betting syndicates. "Courtsiders" (it started in tennis, so by the side of the tennis courts), are almost a bit behind the SOTA now, but there are accounts of that lifestyle[0]. Reading them, there is a mixture of partying and watching sport, with a local police chief in a Middle Eastern state putting his gun on the desk between you and suggesting bad things might happen if you don't leave town immediately. Fun? Up to you.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Game-Set-Cash-International-Trading/d...
I scored for my son's Little League game last weekend, and it was a stressful experience. Mainly because I had never used the app before, it was also somewhat tedious, as I had to update positions every half inning. I wish it were all pre-loaded, as that would have significantly reduced my stress. It was nice being the person everyone asked what the score was all the time, as no one else was paying as close attention to the game.
The hard part about scoring little league is the rules are different and, in my experience, the apps don't account for it. So you just gotta flub it in some way to make sure you record the important bits.
A big one is pitch counts. That should absolutely be correct for safety. But if you're at an age where it goes kid pitch -> coach pitch, you gotta figure out a way to do this and keep an accurate total.
It's this company [1].
They pay people to watch every play of every game and apply a formula that grades the relative difficulty in order to develop their advanced statistical models.
Some of this stuff has been automated, but a lot still hasn't and still relies on the "eye test".
Thats one of several companies.
I would be curious to see how automated this stuff is now with computer vision but I doubt its mostly automated.
This was an old timey job of my pop....covered all the local minor league baseball games .
My first thought of this app is that it would just show a filled in version of a scorecard in person - one of the first hobbies of mine
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Lee-rich...
Ubiquitous sensors have probably automated out many aspects of this. NFL players now have tracking beacons which must make some assessments trivial (what players were on the field?)
I wonder. I suspect there is enough messiness that most of it cant be yet but who knows.
There are also fans who record what happens in baseball games purely for their own enjoyment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_scorekeeping
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/
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