In the 1970s, the
world hockey champions had a coach who inspired them by insisting that they
start every match, by imagining they were 0-3 down.“A goal for your weaknesses,
another for your opponent’s strengths and a third for umpiring errors.”
In the past few
decades, skepticism about umpiring follies hasn’t abated. In the world of
sports, where stakes are increasing by every passing minute and an erroneous
line-call can mean change of fortunes, there is an increasing reliance on
technology to ensure that all arbitrations are unbiased. The component of human
error in making judgments of crucial decisions often turns out to be decisive.
It is not uncommon to see matches turning from being interesting to being one
sided due to a couple of bad umpiring decisions. There is thus a need to bring in
technology to try and minimize the chances of human error in such decision
making.
Teams across the
world are becoming more and more professional with the way they play the game.
Teams now have official strategists and technical support staff which help players
to study their past games and improve. Devising strategies against opponent
teams or specific players is also very common in modern day sports. All this
has become possible due to the advent of technology. Technological developments
have been harnessed to collect various data very precisely and use it for
various purposes.
The HAWKEYE is one
such technology which is considered to be really top notch in sports. The basic
idea is to monitor the trajectory of the ball during the entire duration of play.
This data is then processed to produce life like visualizations showing the
paths which the ball took. Such data has been used for various purposes,
popular uses including the LBW decision making software and colorful wagon
wheels showing various statistics. The HAWKEYE is one of the most commonly used
technologies in the game of cricket today. It has been put to a variety of
uses, such as providing a way to collect interesting statistics, generate very
suggestive visual representations of the game play and even helping viewers to
better understand the umpiring decisions, especially in the case of LBWs.
Hawk-Eye is the most
sophisticated officiating tool used in any sport. It is accurate, reliable and
practical: fans now expect and demand it to be a part of every event. Hawk-Eye
first made its name in Cricket broadcasting, yet the brand has diversified into
Tennis, Snooker and Coaching. Hawk-Eye is currently developing a system for
Football. In Tennis the technology is an integral part of the ATP, WTA and ITF
tennis tours, featuring at the Masters Cup in Shanghai, the US Open, and the
Australian Open etc. Hawk-Eye is the only ball-tracking device to have passed
stringent ITF testing measures. Hawk-Eye offers a unique blend of innovation,
experience and accuracy that has revolutionized the sporting world. The system
is the most technologically advanced cricket coaching system in the world. It
will provide valuable information to players, coaches and umpires to enable
them to identify faults, measure performance and improvement, focus on specific
areas, improve tactical awareness and provide a level of realism never before
achieved in a net environment.
Hawk eye technology
since from its beginning has gained huge popularity due to its highly
innovative and state of the art features. Though initially it was made for the
benefit of umpires regarding decisions in cricket but now it is being used in
tennis, snooker, video games and also for enhancing military strength. While
the system provides for things which we see every day on television, there is
very impressive technology going into it, which many of us are oblivious to.
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