However, one avid baseball fan has built two smartphone applications to allow recreational baseball players to generate these statistics as they practice and play. Will BowenMatthew Bowen is the founder of PA Software, a baseball video analytics software startup that brings the power and accuracy of multi-million dollar Major League Baseball analytics systems to your smartphone. Bowen got the idea for developing phone-driven baseball analysis software during his freshman year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. During an official baseball game, these baseball statistics are generated by teams of professional statisticians either from ESPN or other third parties that are dedicated to this kind of work. For the average baseball player looking to improve their game, the cost for these baseball analytics was prohibitive.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2018 17:37 UTC