A Changing Game Demands Changing Methods

December 6, 2018 Heather Article, Research

What if I told you the pace of play dilemma or MLB’s attendance decline are two small features of a much larger issue? In order to see what lies beneath the surface of concerns that Major League Baseball currently faces, we must take a deeper look into why the game has changed so drastically over […]

Biomechanical Equivalence: Projecting batting statistics using biomechanics data

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 Heather Ben Hansen, Research

At Motus, we specialize in biomechanical analysis and data science. Over the last decade, we have contracted our gold-standard motion capture lab services to capture swings and mobility exams on thousands of baseball players. While we use this data to help inform training decisions, we have stealthily contracted more prestigious services to professional organizations: player […]

Tau and Omega: what the biomechanics industry has wrong

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 Heather Ben Hansen, Research

Since our inception in 2010, Motus has been on the forefront of the biomechanics of human movement. Even though we were the first commercial company to offer assessments with our biomechanics lab, the practice of biomechanics assessments has been around for decades. One of our board members, Dr. Glenn Fleisig, has operated his biomechanics lab […]

Nolan Ryan’s 1974

June 17, 2018June 18, 2018 Heather Article, Research, Will Carroll

Thirteen innings. Nineteen strikeouts. Ten walks. Nolan Ryan’s outing on June 14th of 1974 was a stunner, especially given the pitch counts of modern baseball, but even in 1974, it was an extreme outlier. Pitchers simply did not go 200 pitches, even in the “single pitcher” era when complete games were the rule rather than […]

The Positional Unknown of Elbow Injuries

May 14, 2018May 29, 2018 Heather Article, Research

The Tommy John epidemic continues in baseball, but position players have long seemed immune. That’s not entirely true, with several position players over the years, including some stars, damaging their ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) enough to require the surgery. The most recent is Dodgers’ star shortstop Corey Seager, who’s gone from Rookie of the Year and […]

Soul and Science, Expanded

April 26, 2018April 30, 2018 Heather Research, Uncategorized

NFL Network recently tested several of the top quarterbacks in this year’s draft using the MotusQB technology. (We’ve linked to all the videos on our site for you.) We were excited by the great work of this team, including the analysis from Trent Dilfer and Jon Brenkus. We’re data geeks so mark us more on […]

Raise your analytics game with motusDASH

March 8, 2018 Heather Article, Research

WHAT’S NEW WITH motusDASH? For our clients who use motusDASH, you’ve seen a lot of updates over the winter. Here’s a brief summary of the current features of motusDASH, just in case you’ve missed it. First, the homepage of the dashboards quickly diagnose each player with their AC Ratio and Chronic Workload status. If someone is […]

New season. New app. New arm.

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Heather Article, Research

We’ve made some amazing advancements to our motusTHROW app. As existing users, we’re providing you with an exclusive at-a-glace overview of the new features to get you up and monitoring “readiness” in time for the new season. READINESS: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER Since we first launched motusTHROW in 2014, we’ve collected millions of throws from users, […]

How Does Monitoring Workload Help Arm Health?

March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 Heather Article, Research

Spring training is in full force, and with pitchers competing for starting roles and getting their arms in shape for the season, there isn’t a more crucial time to measure workload with Motus. Our dashboard is designed to provide pitchers with state-of-the-art workload measurements and workload simulation tools to help give them the safest and most […]

Testing The Twist

November 15, 2017November 16, 2017 Heather Article, Research, Will Carroll

As velocity numbers and DL days have tracked up over the last few years, there’s been a lot of discussion about some of the more granular areas and changes. However, there’s been little publicly available data to test any of this. At Motus, our lab-accurate system to measure throwing mechanics of the pitcher’s elbow gives […]

Recharging the Pitching Schedule

October 12, 2017 Heather Article, Research

I spent most of a morning digging through data, looking at both the kind of data we can get with the motusTHROW and velocity logs from both this season and some notes I took from a research project I did back at Baseball Prospectus in 2004. While this is hardly definitive, I believe that it’s […]

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A Changing Game Demands Changing Methods