Kazuhei Fukushima stood on the pitcher's hill and made a few simple attempts before the game began. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The content of the first half of the game is unremarkable.

Yono's bat, Hiraga, relied on his speed to sneak up and hit the base successfully. The second batter was tricked by the change ball and hit a bocce ball in the direction of first base.

Masaoka, the first baseman of the Peace Academy, picked up the ball and stepped on the base bag lightly, and passed to second base to complete the double kill.

The third batter Tanaka is a long-hitting hitter, and his disadvantage is that he is often struck out. Sure enough, after hitting two throw-ins in a row, he couldn't resist swinging his bat in the face of Universal. Air vibration triple strike.

Li Yuanrang stood in the outfield and completed a game and a half without doing anything. He and his teammates walked to the rest area, only to find that there was one more person there at some point.

A stocky boy in a Peace School jersey and glasses sits on a bench in the front row, fiddling with his laptop.

"Isn't this Musashino Pegasus's four-stick Tako? Why are you here? ”

The team's first baseman, Masaoka Masa, seems to have known this man for a long time.

"Yo, it's the ace of the Lion Masaoka."

Musashino Pegasus, Chofu Lions, and a few other teams named after constellations. Both are teams in the Nishitokyo Junior Baseball League. Tako and Masaoka seem to have been rivals in the same league since their elementary school days.

"New members?"

The person who asked was Ichihei Fukushima, who had just returned to the rest area and was drinking a sports drink.

"I'm Tian Guwu from the IT department, and I'm here to test our newly developed data statistics software. However, Mr. Sato said that if you want to sit in the rest area, you have to be on the substitute list......"

"Can I replace you in that game? Didn't you play four bats or something in elementary school? ”

Akio Yabe asked, half-jokingly.

"No, no, no, I haven't touched baseball since middle school. But I can try to help you with technical statistics. ”

As he spoke, Tian Gu listed some statistics in the first half of a game on the screen for the players to see.

"Oh! I threw the last ball at a speed of 133 kilometers. ”

For Ichihei Fukushima, who has a top speed of about 135, it is quite good to throw such a speed easily in a practice match.

"But when did we install a speedometer in our stadium?"

Looking at the information provided by Tako, Fukushima raised such a question. In the past, whether it was an internal training or practice match, if you wanted to measure the speed of the ball, someone had to hold a hand-held speed gun on the side to measure the speed.

"There have always been speedometers in the stadium, but because there is no LED display installed, there is no place for the data to be displayed."

Next, Tagu introduced the IT department's plan for baseball statistics.

There has always been a speed tester installed next to the home plate of the Peace School Baseball Stadium, and this time the IT department just connected the speed tester to a mini host running Linux, and transmitted the data of each ball to a server in the cloud.

Not only that, but action cameras were placed at all angles of the stadium, and videos of the games and timed photos were uploaded.

This is a system that was improvised within a few days after a few students in the IT department who love baseball heard that the baseball department was full of starting lineups for games. And Tian Gu was sent to the project site smoothly because of his previous experience in playing baseball.

"What's the use of all this collected data?"

Yabe is a catcher, and the catcher's match in the game is also judged by experience and data to a certain extent. So he has always been interested in the application of data analysis in the field of baseball.

"Now it's just accumulating data first, and I haven't figured out how to mine it yet......"

After Tian Gu answered, the scene was quiet for a few seconds. In the end, it was Fukushima who broke the silence.

"If we want to see this data, is there any way, doesn't it mean that it has been uploaded to the server?"

"Oh, if you want to see this, there's an app you can use."

As he spoke, Tian Gu opened a QR code and a picture was displayed on the computer screen.

"But now there is only the Android version, and the iOS version has not yet passed the review......"

Lee Wonrang is a fan of SONY. The mobile phone naturally uses the Xperia series of products. He scanned the code and downloaded Tian Gu's APP, and then checked the messages inside one by one.

On the court, the bottom half of the first inning has begun. Lee Motorang is the eighth bat, while Yabe is the seventh. Neither of them had a chance to play in this game, so they sat side by side on the benches and drank cold drinks.

The first person to stand in the strike zone of the Peace School Park was Miyagi, a third-grader in the middle of the game. With dyed blonde hair and chewing gum in his mouth, he doesn't look like a high school student at all.

He is said not to have been on the training ground since the start of the school year in April, but in terms of the stance of the strike, it still looks like that.

Facing Yono's unstable first-year pitcher Kenzo Oe, Miyagi struggled to the eighth pitch and finally got the chance to get a chance to hit base.

Miyagi smiled contemptuously as he walked up to first base. Yono's first baseman, on the other hand, looked disgusted and kept his distance as much as possible.

In the second batter of the next Masaoka, Oe threw a bad ball first.

It seems that Dajiang may not be able to finish throwing in this game, and the number of balls used will not be too small.

Li Yuanrang sat in the rest area, checking various materials through his mobile phone. He found that all the player information of the baseball club of the opponent Yono High School was also included.

Two of the straight balls from the pitcher Oe reached a speed of 140 kilometers. According to the data, his top speed in the recorded race was 142 kilometers, and that was last year in his third year of secondary school.

He's just a first-grader. In the future, as long as you train properly and the ball speed exceeds 15, it will definitely not be a problem. Why would such a talented pitcher go to a school like Yono that doesn't even have his own driving range?

In addition, what surprised Li Yuanrang even more was that all the players in Yangno's roster were first- and second-year students. Not a single one in the third grade.

"What's going on?"

Li Yuanrang conveyed his questions to Yabe beside him.

"This is a tradition in Yono, after all, they are a school-type school......

On the premise of not relying on special channels such as recommended admissions, the university admission rate of Yangno High School can exceed 90% and 5%.

Less than 5 percent of the new graduates who are unable to go on to higher education often do not really fail to enter the university, and most of them choose to retake the exam in order to enter a first-class national university such as Tokyo University or Kyoto University.

In order to live up to the reputation of entering a prestigious school, the Yono High School Baseball Club has an unwritten rule. Unless they are confident enough to pass the sports entrance examination, third-year students are required to leave the department early to prepare for the university entrance exam.

In the summer convention, without the support of the third-year seniors, Yono has always been regarded as a fish belly by other teams.

But even so, in fact, Yono's baseball club is not a weak team. Every year, there are always a few new students who have excellent academic performance and are also good baseball players in high school.

Only the autumn and spring conventions, which are attended by the first and second grades, are the stage for Yono to show his strength.