The 2022 school summer time coaching season 2022 is winding down. Gamers are returning to high school for fall ball, competing for enjoying time, and gearing up for the approaching spring season. Again in Kent, we’re capable of take a step again and catch our collective breath earlier than ramping again up for the professional offseason in a number of weeks.
As we transition between these coaching intervals, we thought it will be an excellent time to mirror on all we completed this summer time. Right here’s our by the numbers recap of the 2022 school summer time at Driveline…
All stats you see beneath are taken from our inside pitching and hitting biomechanics databases which course of each pitch and swing we report within the movement seize lab and replace nightly. For the aim of this text, we are going to filter right down to between Might 1st and September 1st.
What number of athletes assessed?
| Athletes Assessed | Variety of Pitches/Swings | |
| Pitchers | 213 | 1,394 |
| Hitters | 141 | 1,670 |
| Retests (Pitchers + Hitters) | 156 | Included in above |
| Complete | 510 | 3,064 |
Abstract Stats (Pitchers) (fastballs solely):
- Common velo: 83 mph
- Pitches above 85 mph: 597
- Pitches above 90 mph: 138
- Common velo acquire on retest: 1.75 mph
- 50% of pitchers gained not less than 1.95 mph
Abstract Stats (Hitters):
- Common exit velo: 89 mph
- Common bat velocity (blast): 67.2 mph
- Complete dwelling runs hit: 111
- Complete doubles hit: 429
- Complete distance of balls hit: 351,618 ft
- 66.6 miles 🛣
- 12 Mount Everests stacked on prime of one another ⛰️
- 0.028% of the gap to the moon 🚀
- Common bat velocity acquire on retest: 1.48 mph
In the event you embody retests, we carried out simply over 500 assessments in a single summer time coaching interval. In different phrases, we collected so much of information.
For pitchers, this meant processing biomechanics information from (not less than) 5 fastballs + any related offspeed pitches, pairing Rapsodo, Trackman, and Pulse information, and importing that paired information to our inside databases + the athlete’s TRAQ profile. We additionally robotically recorded sluggish movement Edgertronic movies for every rep.
On the hitting facet, this meant processing biomechanics information from not less than 8 swings, pairing HitTrax and Blast information, importing that paired information to our inside databases + the athlete’s TRAQ profile, and recording every swing in high-definition slowmo with our synched Edgertronics.
Certainly accumulating all that information overtaxed your staff!
It truly didn’t! Let’s break it down with some back-of-the-napkin math…
For one among our division’s key efficiency indicators (KPIs), we observe how a lot time we spend
1) within the lab bodily accumulating information
2) sitting behind a desk processing the info and
3) troubleshooting any bugs that occur to come back up throughout processing.
All these classes are mixed into one “Mocap Operations Hours” KPI.
Clearly, we would like that quantity as little as potential.
As you possibly can see from the determine above, we had been nicely beneath 2hrs/evaluation for almost all of the summer time busy season. In accordance with our time monitoring, we spent 611 whole labor hours on 510 assessments, which comes out to 1.2 hrs/evaluation.
Let’s take a look at it from a division useful resource standpoint…
As of the time of this weblog, there are 5 full-time sport science staff at Driveline Baseball. In the event you assume 40 hr work weeks (which we all know is not the case throughout professional and school groups’ busy seasons) over the ~ 18 weeks between Might 1st and September 1st, you get 3,600 whole labor hours (5 staff * 40 hours * 18 weeks).
611 Mocap Operations hours signify roughly 17% of the overall division labor hours. Our staff spent lower than 1/fifth of their time accumulating, processing, and troubleshooting biomechanics information; leaving over 4/5ths of their time for higher issues.
What higher issues?
What higher issues, you ask? Effectively, issues like constructing our first occlusion + deception fashions, documenting return to play progress in unprecedented movement seize element, testing our new Smash Issue Balls™, creating video reviews to raised talk biomechanics reviews to visible learners, investigating mechanics of two-way gamers, measuring catcher receiving and blocking efficiency, accumulating extra longitudinal information on our academy athletes to raised perceive youth ability growth, serving to our educational companions with their analysis tasks, revamping our premium biomechanics companies, telling everybody how cool our techniques are, and extra…
You get the purpose; we’ve been busy.
What’s subsequent?
Summer time ‘22 offseason coaching paints an optimistic image. Gamers are getting higher on each side of the ball. On the pitching facet, pitchers are throwing the ball tougher and their stuff is getting nastier. On the hitting facet, hitters are swinging the bat quicker, hitting the ball tougher, and making higher swing choices. From a techniques perspective, test-retest suggestions loops are getting tighter and division sources aren’t being dominated by repetitive processing and analyzing duties. Environment friendly techniques will enable us to scale our evaluation course of to new amenities, like our lately opened complicated in Phoenix, Arizona, and any contracts/cell assessments we do for amenities, faculties, and orgs.
And we will’t await Summer time ‘23.
In case you are an athlete trying to take advantage of out of your profession, e-mail assist@drivelinebaseball.com to get began.
When you’ve got biomechanics information and wish us that can assist you take advantage of it, give us a shout.
