Hawk-Eye

... by nine miles an hour in about 10 minutes? I don't believe it." And sure enough, turned out to be nonsense.

Yeah, Hawk-Eye poured, poured cold water on everyone's fun, not before some quite big official accounts had tweeted about the fastest-

[laughs]

... serve of all time.

Um, and the, now the Driveline Pulse, of course.

Uh, a friend of mine, actually, his son played in a youth baseball tournament, and they had Hawk Eye in the-

Right

... tournament.

He was, I think he's 16 now.

But it just stunned me.

I know, you know, virtually every, uh, you know, tournament site these days will have Trackman or Rapsodo or something, but this was the full-on Hawk Eye setup, and he sent me a bunch-

Uh-huh

I'll help you.

AI referees go mainstream, and Poland's top soccer league just hated Hawk-Eye, its entire officiating and broadcast stack tracking automated offsides, AI cameras, the whole kit and caboodle.

The robot ref is not coming, but in some leagues, it's already here.

Right, those are your quick hits.

Too much doubt, so not out.

Now, Hawk-Eye is proving, as it has in the past for spinners, that more balls are hitting the wicket than was previously thought, and so more LBWs are being given or being overturned.

Uh, particularly at Lord's, where there isn't much bounce.

These pitches are a bit tired, and there isn't a lot of, you know, carry on the pitch.

If you can track it for a ball and strike why can't you just track it all over the field?

Yeah, Hawk Eye or whatever.

Yeah, but barring that, yeah, just have a camera lined up-

Totally

... positioning-based rulings on this.

It, it seems wild to me that this isn't something that has just been res- resolved by Hawk Eye.

Like, why-

Right

... why wouldn't we just rely on Hawk Eye for boundary calls?

Yeah.

I guess the only issue there is that the full entire trajectory of, of every batted ball is not tracked, is my understanding.

But, but I think it's maybe more about...

They use them in tennis to see if a, a ball was in or out of bounds.

Yeah, Hawk Eye.

Baseball uses them-

Yeah, Hawk Eye

... to track pitches and, and hitters and stuff like that.

So you could just put a sensor right on top of the, of the foul pole to see if it was fair or foul.

And when it comes to the technology, you've got a operator.

So you'll have a VAR, an AVAR, and an operator, and the operators now with, through Hawk-Eye and that, I think it's Hawk-Eye that still do it, um, they pull up the clips nine times out of 10 before you even get there.

They know what the referees are wanting now.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

And then in 2020, uh, the Hawk Eye system was introduced, and Hawk Eye is now owned by Sony, and, um, Hawk Eye's just a more advanced system.

And, uh, there are 12 Hawk Eye cameras strategically placed in each, um, MLB ballpark, and they use, um, triangulation to capture data, and these are really high-tech cameras that run at, like, 300 frames per second.

Okay.

And, um, any, um, a hard hit ball according to Statcast is any ball hit at least 95 miles per hour, and, um, that's the threshold.