ABS Has Forever Changed Baseball; Is it Coming for the NFL?
https://youtu.be/WgIVWAyPtfI
This answers a lot of my questions about how ABS actually works. It seems like a more significant change to the actual rules than I realized.
Strike zones are no longer 3d prisms but now just rectangular cross-sections. This means some pitches that were actually strikes are being successfully changed into balls.
Strike zones are based on proportions of the batters' heights, rather than where chest and knees are while in their batting stance.
I'm a little surprised these changes weren't more controversial, since I don't think baseball officially changed those rules.
https://stacker.news/items/1483377
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