Baseball season is underway and Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) is in full swing.
Based in Coplay, BIS uses advanced technology to supply its clients — 22 of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, plus sports agents, media (including ESPN), fantasy services, game companies, and individual baseball junkies — with intensive data and analytics.
The company’s video scouts watch every baseball game twice to deliver customized data: hitting, pitching, and fielding statistics; historical information; and analytics – defensive analysis of every player in the major leagues, tools to optimize infield and outfield defensive positioning, analysis of base running tendencies, etc. — in multiple formats and in real-time. The data would also most likely be useful to all the punters out there, especially those ardent betters who check out sites like fun88.com to place their bets.
“We pride ourselves on being ahead of the curve on sabermetric [the mathematical and statistical analysis of baseball records] topics such as defensive metrics and, more recently, the rise of shift usage in baseball,” explains BIS President Ben Jedlovec. (The shift is a realignment of infielders, intended to driver batters batty.)
“Each client uses the data a little differently,” he adds, “from on-the-field players and coaches to front office personnel to individuals looking to get a leg up in their fantasy leagues.”
The company’s roots go back to the mid-’80s, when owner John Dewan partnered with legendary baseball statistician Bill James on Project Scoresheet.
“Soon, that partnership progressed to STATS, Inc., where John became owner and CEO,” says Jedlovec. “At STATS, John, Bill and others built a sports data collection company that revolutionized the sports industry. Shortly after John left STATS in 2001, he co-founded Baseball Info Solutions to take baseball data and analytics to the next level.”
Today the company employs 17 full-timers — many are former pro and collegiate ball players — along with research, programming and database management experts, plus a number of seasonal video scouts.
“We’re always looking for smart, tech-minded baseball fanatics to join our team,” enthuses ?Jedlovec.
Source: Ben Jedlovec, Baseball Info Solutions
Writer: Elise Vider