competency

[Guest Bob Wulterin]

what positives do umpires bring to a baseball game? Computers can do their job off with a hundred percent accuracy and remove the highly suspect calls on a lot of umpires

[BrianC14]

2 minutes ago, Guest Bob Wulterin said:

what positives do umpires bring to a baseball game? Computers can do their job off with a hundred percent accuracy and remove the highly suspect calls on a lot of umpires

Computers can also play the game.   What positives are there in having a computer-generated game played out by writers of software?  

[ElkOil]

4 minutes ago, Guest Bob Wulterin said:

what positives do umpires bring to a baseball game? Computers can do their job off with a hundred percent accuracy and remove the highly suspect calls on a lot of umpires

None. Since you posed your question this way, I'm hanging it up.

Stupid computers...

[maven]

You premise is false, your motives dubious, and your question tendentious. Take your dreck to facebook.

[ElkOil]

6 minutes ago, maven said:

You premise is false, your motives dubious, and your question tendentious. Take your dreck to facebook.

Here I go to Google some new words...

[stkjock]

24 minutes ago, ElkOil said:

Here I go to Google some new words...

LOL me too.

[pnewton]

Don't feed the trolls

[scrounge]

Your intellect fascinates me, and I would be very interested in subscribing to your newsletter.

[LRZ]

Can computers tell when a pitcher throws at a batter and is not just wild? Can computers tell who to eject when there is a brawl? Can computers give managers who argue their money's worth? When a catcher gets rocked by a foul ball, can a computer walk the ball back out to the pitcher? Can a computer wear long sleeves under a short sleeve shirt? Can a computer eject John Gibbons? Oh, the list is endless....

[JHSump]

Computers will not be as accurate as you suspect. Certainly they won't be 100% accurate. Ever heard the computer science expression, "garbage in, garbage out"? It means that computers never make computational mistakes, but if you feed in wrong assumptions or information, you'll get wrong answers out.

Take the strike zone. It is not as well defined as you might think, especially at the upper and lower boundaries. How it gets defined for a computer could be quite simple (like for the strike zone boxes they draw in TV broadcasts), yet inaccurate (i.e., not in agreement the the rules, or accepted baseball practice). There are many factors that can go into deciding a strike/ball decision. And they are not easy to define or represent in a computer program. Don't be fooled by the definitive nature of those TV strike zone boxes. Most likely the computer's call on a borderline pitch will please one team and not the other, just like for human umpires.

Replace umpires with computers and managers, players, and fans will just transfer the target of their frustrations from human umpires to computer systems (including the humans that program the computers and determine how a strike is decided by the computer). The panda in @ElkOil's vid shows you how managers and players might react when they don't agree with a computer's decision. That's how Curt Shilling reacted when pitch tracking software first came into use and umpires started to alter their strike zones.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/tht-live/10th-anniversary-curt-schilling-vs-questec-camera/

[maineump]

Just imagine all of the sensors you would need for the computers to get input. All of the judgment calls that we make would need some sort of sensor suit on the players and all of the equipment that is used - they couldn't even move around freely.

Would be better for managers to be the computers - when the give bad input to the umpire - the umpire either hits control/alt/delete or just plain old delete. The computer operator could add all input to it, the computer can then make the decisions for the game based on what program they may have.

[Kevin_K]

Computers and their software cost a lot more than the microscopic game fees some think umpires should be paid.

[udbrky]

3 hours ago, maven said:

You premise is false, your motives dubious, and your question tendentious. Take your dreck to facebook.

revert to profanity,if you can't answer the question

 

[LMSANS]

Obvious troll. I'm locking it.