MLB is testing out a new advanced Metric this year called Weather Applied Metrics (WAM) which I find (and any meteorologists at SOSH) fascinating...
the above link has a lot more on the nuts and bolts of how they will use this stat and how its calculated
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This new WAM metric can hopefully answer two things
How much is the Coors (TM) affect actually have on Players in Colorado, and how many times announcers who are fooled by a deep drive to left, are not because they are blind but because the weather had other ideas
On May 28th, 2021 Cubs outfielder Patrick Wisdom crushed a Sean Doolittle fastball that was destined for the left field bleachers. If you heard the announcers’ or the crowd’s live reaction, you didn’t need Statcast to tell you that balls that leave the bat at 103 mph with a 34 degree launch angle typically travel 400 feet. Cubs’ broadcaster Jon Sciambi went into his home run call: “That one drilled, left field! This one back and…”. Meanwhile, the Reds’ broadcast had a more succinct immediate reaction: “Oh boy.” Fans in the 12th row of the bleachers jumped to their feet and stretched out their arms to make a play on the ball.
Thrall correctly pinpointed the culprit: the wind, or the weather more broadly. Sensors and advanced modeling from Weather Applied Metrics (WAM) tell us that the wind cost Wisdom 40 feet on the would-be home run on this blustery day at Wrigley Field in 2021.
After testing the technology at five parks in 2022, MLB and WAM will be providing weather data and insights across all 30 ballparks in 2023.
https://technology.mlblogs.com/weather-applied-metrics-in-major-league-baseball-aa0e556eb49fPark sizes, orientations, shape, and weather can be considered as a group of factors in concept as a park factor. The park-factor ingredient that has historically been most difficult to characterize is wind.
Wind at a ballpark has to negotiate large structures that surround the field. As a result, wind on-field doesn’t match what the flags are showing. The figure below illustrates how a large barrier creates a wind shadow. The height (X) and range (Y) of the wind shadow are roughly on the order of magnitude of the height of the barrier.
the above link has a lot more on the nuts and bolts of how they will use this stat and how its calculated
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This new WAM metric can hopefully answer two things
How much is the Coors (TM) affect actually have on Players in Colorado, and how many times announcers who are fooled by a deep drive to left, are not because they are blind but because the weather had other ideas