Do Scores on a Tachistoscope Test Correlate With Baseball Batting Averages?

Reichow, Alan; Garchow, Kenneth E; Baird, Richard Y

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“…In addition, performance on the Perception Span task exhibits some association with both higher walk rates and increased slugging percentages, though the evidence is not conclusive. This task measures the ability to remember and recreate visual patterns and may reflect visual recognition abilities that have previously been tied to batting performance in small samples of players (N = 20) tested with Tachistoscopic methods 7 and in a conference paper reporting relationships in collegiate players 8 . For reference, across the tested models we find expected age and position effects with stronger batting performance for outfields and older batters.…”

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“…However, the combination of noisy game statistics and costly sample acquisition makes inferring meaningful relationships difficult. Although a small number of studies have reported links between superior baseball statistical production and better visual reaction times 4 , dynamic stereoacuity 5 , binocular divergence 6 , and visual recognition 7 , 8 , they are based on small sample sizes and/or appear in conference proceedings, rather than peer reviewed articles.…”

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Sensorimotor abilities predict on-field performance in professional baseball

Burris

Vittetoe

Ramger

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Baseball players must be able to see and react in an instant, yet it is hotly debated whether superior performance is associated with superior sensorimotor abilities. In this study, we compare sensorimotor abilities, measured through 8 psychomotor tasks comprising the Nike Sensory Station assessment battery, and game statistics in a sample of 252 professional baseball players to evaluate the links between sensorimotor skills and on-field performance. For this purpose, we develop a series of Bayesian hierarchical latent variable models enabling us to compare statistics across professional baseball leagues. Within this framework, we find that sensorimotor abilities are significant predictors of on-base percentage, walk rate and strikeout rate, accounting for age, position, and league. We find no such relationship for either slugging percentage or fielder-independent pitching. The pattern of results suggests performance contributions from both visual-sensory and visual-motor abilities and indicates that sensorimotor screenings may be useful for player scouting.

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Sensorimotor abilities predict on-field performance in professional baseball

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“…The eyes account for 80% of the information taken into the brain. Having good vision and training that vision to be proficient may provide the batter with a competitive edge [6] , [8] . It is estimated that the average visual acuity of a professional baseball player is 20/12 whereas college players are of the order of 20/15 [6] .…”

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“…The Tachistoscope is a device that trains the brain to recognize images faster, and loosely correlates to batting average [8] . We flash numbers on a screen, typically starting with 1 number at 0.25 seconds, gradually adding more numbers [up to 4] randomly placed on the screen, and also including different backgrounds at increasingly faster flashes.…”

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High-Performance Vision Training Improves Batting Statistics for University of Cincinnati Baseball Players

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PurposeBaseball requires an incredible amount of visual acuity and eye-hand coordination, especially for the batters. The learning objective of this work is to observe that traditional vision training as part of injury prevention or conditioning can be added to a team's training schedule to improve some performance parameters such as batting and hitting.MethodsAll players for the 2010 to 2011 season underwent normal preseason physicals and baseline testing that is standard for the University of Cincinnati Athletics Department. Standard vision training exercises were implemented 6 weeks before the start of the season. Results are reported as compared to the 2009 to 2010 season. Pre season conditioning was followed by a maintenance program during the season of vision training.ResultsThe University of Cincinnati team batting average increased from 0.251 in 2010 to 0.285 in 2011 and the slugging percentage increased by 0.033. The rest of the Big East's slugging percentage fell over that same time frame 0.082. This produces a difference of 0.115 with 95% confidence interval (0.024, 0.206). As with the batting average, the change for University of Cincinnati is significantly different from the rest of the Big East (p = 0.02). Essentially all batting parameters improved by 10% or more. Similar differences were seen when restricting the analysis to games within the Big East conference.ConclusionVision training can combine traditional and technological methodologies to train the athletes' eyes and improve batting. Vision training as part of conditioning or injury prevention can be applied and may improve batting performance in college baseball players. High performance vision training can be instituted in the pre-season and maintained throughout the season to improve batting parameters.

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“…Nevertheless, there are multiple instances of concurrent technologies having significant correlations, and by extension acceptable reliability, while exhibiting numerical differences in absolute magnitude that impede its validity (O'Donnell et al, 2018). In addition, there is also a specific history in the world of baseball player development in using technology that may be highly reliable while measuring outcomes on different scales of magnitude, like the tachistoscope test correlating with a player's batting average (Reichow et a., 2011).…”

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Peer Review #2 of "Exploring wearable sensors as an alternative to marker-based motion capture in the pitching delivery (v0.1)"

2019

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Background. Improvements in data processing, increased understanding of the biomechanical background behind kinetics and kinematics, and technological advancements in Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors have enabled high precision in the measurement of joint angles and acceleration on human subjects. This has resulted in new devices that reportedly measure joint angles, arm speed, and stresses to the pitching arms of baseball players. This study seeks to validate one such sensor, the MotusBASEBALL unit, with a marker-based motion capture laboratory. Hypothesis. We hypothesize that the joint angle measurements ("Arm Slot" and "Shoulder Rotation") of the MotusBASEBALL device will hold a statistically significant level of reliability and accuracy, but that the "Arm Speed" and "Stress" metrics will not be accurate due to limitations in IMU technology. Methods. 10 healthy subjects threw 5-7 fastballs followed by 5-7 breaking pitches (slider or curveball) in the motion capture lab. Subjects wore retroreflective markers and the MotusBASEBALL sensor simultaneously. Results.

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Do Scores on a Tachistoscope Test Correlate With Baseball Batting Averages?

Cited by 15 publications

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Sensorimotor abilities predict on-field performance in professional baseball

Sensorimotor abilities predict on-field performance in professional baseball

High-Performance Vision Training Improves Batting Statistics for University of Cincinnati Baseball Players

Peer Review #2 of "Exploring wearable sensors as an alternative to marker-based motion capture in the pitching delivery (v0.1)"

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