Pitcher Statistics Tracking and Monitoring System
AssigneePitchKount, LLC
InventorJeffrey P. Weems
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Abstract
A pitch count system monitors pitch count data for baseball and softball pitchers so that coaches, officials and team administrators can know when a team's pitcher is approaching or has reached pitch count limits. The system may register information upon game completion and/or enable live updating during game play, and may make updated pitch count information available to each team. The system may allow coaches to view their opponents' reports so that coaches can know who is not eligible to pitch against them on a certain day, or after a certain point in time as a game progresses. Further, the system may provide leagues and governing associations with an oversight mechanism to ensure that teams are adhering to the prescribed pitch count regulations.
Claims20
A pitch tracking system, comprising:
- a server that is in communication with a plurality of team electronic devices, wherein the server comprises a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium having recorded thereon programming instructions being executable by the processor to provide a pitch tracking application to the plurality of team electronic devices, the programming instructions configured to cause the processor to:
- receive, from a first team electronic device, an identifier for a pitcher in a baseball game or a softball game and a first pitch count value for the pitcher for the game,
- transmit the first pitch count value to a second team electronic device,
- receive, from the second team electronic device, an indication of whether the second team electronic device user agrees with the first pitch count value,
- if the second team electronic device user agrees with the first pitch count value, accept the first pitch count value and save the first pitch count value in association with a temporal parameter to a player profile for the pitcher, and
- if the first pitch count value does not match a second pitch count value of the second team electronic device:
- transmit a verification request message to at least the second team electronic device requesting verification of the first pitch count value;
- if the system receives an adjusted pitch count value from one of the team electronic devices within a threshold time frame and indicia of agreement with the adjusted pitch count value from the second team electronic device, save the adjusted pitch count value in association with the temporal parameter to the player profile;
- and
- if the system does not receive an adjusted pitch count value within the threshold time period or indicia of agreement from the second electronic device, perform an independent verification process to determine an audited pitch count value and save the audited pitch count value in association with the temporal parameter to the player profile.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having recorded thereon programming instructions being executable by a processor to provide a pitch tracking application to a plurality of team electronic devices, the programming instructions configured to cause the processor to:
- receive, from a first team electronic device, an identifier for a pitcher in a baseball game or a softball game and a first pitch count value for the pitcher for the game,
- transmit the first pitch count value to a second team electronic device,
- receive, from the second team electronic device, an indication of whether the second team electronic device user agrees with the first pitch count value,
- if the second team electronic device user agrees with the first pitch count value, accept the first pitch count value and save the first pitch count value in association with a temporal parameter to a player profile for the pitcher, and
- if the first pitch count value does not match a second pitch count value of the second team electronic device:
- transmit a verification request message to at least the second team electronic device requesting verification of the first pitch count value;
- if the system receives an adjusted pitch count value from one of the team electronic devices within a threshold time frame and indicia of agreement with the adjusted pitch count value from the second team electronic device, save the adjusted pitch count value in association with the temporal parameter to the player profile;
- and
- if the system does not receive an adjusted pitch count value within the threshold time period or indicia of agreement from the second electronic device, perform an independent verification process to determine an audited pitch count value and save the audited pitch count value in association with the temporal parameter to the player profile.
A pitch tracking system, comprising:
- programming instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and configured to cause a server to serve a pitch tracking application to an electronic device by:
- receiving an identifier for a pitcher in a baseball game or a softball game and a first pitch count value for the pitcher,
- accessing a player profile for the pitcher and extracting a historic pitch count value for the pitcher for a threshold period of time prior to a present time;
- updating the historic pitch count value to account for the first pitch count value;
- determining a pitch capacity value representing a difference between a maximum value for the threshold period of time and the updated historic pitch count value for the pitcher;
- and
- outputting the pitch capacity value to a user of the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.