Surely this has been done before, but I can’t seem to find the right keywords for a search. How does sportscasting work, particularly with regard to stats and seemingly on-the-spot video from archives etc.
I imagine computers and a team of researchers help quite a bit with the stats, but what about the video? How could they possibly pull up the video of “the last time a ball hit a bird in the outfield” so quickly? Is every play/game digitized and then tagged?
Other interesting tidbits?
If you could be a bit more specific regarding your “How does sportscasting work?” It would help. I am assuming you mean at the national level. You are pretty accurate about the stats. These days down in the truck there a couple of guys pouring over whatever happened and trying to match it to a stat. But they are probably both sports stats junkies who really didn’t need the computer at all. They have committed an incredible (and frightening) amount of the stuff to memory and can pull it off the top of their heads.
Not every play is digitized and filed, but every game is back at the studio and as for the unique and the predicably milestonish, it is ready to go at the push of a button.