Driveline R&D Podcast

Episode 20 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

Youtube Link to full podcast

Youtube Link to cWar Questions clip

Youtube Link to Biomechanics Report Walkthrough

We talk more about New TRAQ launch with EDGE and our other integrations.

Caravan talks about some analytics wing research ideas that the he thinks any of the listeners could actually get into if they wanted. And at the end of the podcast we did about a 15 minute segment where we screenshared and went over our biomechanics assessment report. Again, that'll be best viewed at the youtube link below. Hope you enjoy!

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 19 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

In this episode we go over some of the latest updates in the R&D department, the launch of our new TRAQ features where we've integrated EDGE. And then Anthony gets into some updates on Driveline Arizona and using and ELO system for live ABs!

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 18 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

In this episode we miss our favorite Arizona-stranded butterscotch baby Anthony Brady but Kyle honors him by starting off the episode talking about recent biomechanics requests from our trainers and future initiatives in comparing full signal. Then Alex talks about going public with cWAR and the next steps there! Caravan also talks about an oldie but goodie piece on sabermetrics by Baseball Prospectus on identifying successful change-ups at the big league level!

cWAR blog: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2020/06/an-introduction-to-cwar/ 

Baseball Prospectus article: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/20696/what-makes-a-good-changeup-an-investigation-part-two/

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 17 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley  

In this episode we talk briefly about project updates and Driveline in Arizona! Alex talks about developing D1 Baseball WAR and other advanced metrics. We finish the episode with talking more about force plate research and predictive velocity models!  

Link to the hosts' twitters: 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Hey everyone, in light of current events taking place across the country, we did not feel comfortable recording an R&D Podcast this week. We stand in support of racial equality and all those who search for it. Stay safe, we'll be back next week.

Episode 16 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! 

With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley  

In this episode we talk briefly about project updates and Driveline in Arizona! Kyle discusses some biomechanics research requests he worked on last night and Kinematic Variability. We got really deep into the Biomechanics Research requests that Lindley worked on, so we decided to table the last two topics on the new college baseball model and What Makes a Good Changeup to next weeks episode!  

Link to the hosts' twitters: 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan 

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 15 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast!

With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

In this episode we talk briefly about project updates (due to some traveling constraints) and employee feedback/reviews week. Kyle discusses the research article preparation and writing process that we have going on with our backlog of open studies. And Anthony goes on depth on pitchAI and some recent developments that there team has been working on!

Article that Anthony references on pitchAI: https://proplayai.com/pitchai-goes-to-spring-training/

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 14 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast!

With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, Alex breaks down Model Error Analysis. Kyle discusses a tweet thread on pitching energy transfer and finishes off the podcast with a research article review on fastball velocity and elbow varus torque!

Article that Lindley reviewed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30721094

Link to the hosts' twitters: 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan 

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 13 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, Anthony talks about the weighted ball panel he was on last week, and the new Driveline PLUS Slack channel. Alex ends the podcast with a research review discussing 3 articles on defensive metrics and the process of validating them.  

Youtube version of the podcast linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxoay9sGSJE&feature=youtu.be

Link to the weighted ball panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YjUnE_dAeY&feature=emb_title 

Articles that Caravan discussed: 

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/58243/measuring-defensive-accuracy-in-baseball/

https://hareeb.com/2020/04/14/the-baseball-prospectus-article-comparing-defensive-metrics-is-strange/

https://hareeb.com/2020/04/17/dont-use-fraa-for-outfielders/  

Link to the hosts' twitters: 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 12 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

In this episode we talk about our project updates from last week, discuss ongoing tech validations like K vest and Blast, as well as recent tech validation of the pitchLogic ball. Anthony ends with a research review of a whitepaper about workloads and injury rates using motus. 

Make sure to checkout the Youtube version of the podcast! https://youtu.be/aY6jXz8gnjU

Link to the discussed research article:  https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/b515ca31/files/uploaded/relationship-between-acvr-and-injury.pdf

pitchLogic Validation: https://www.samford.edu/sports-analytics/fans/2020/Validating-pitchLogic-Assessing-the-New-Smart-Baseball

Driveline blog on workload and motus by Devin Rose: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2020/04/what-is-throwing-workload/ 

Link to the hosts' twitters: 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_