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Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball, a weekend seminar for the benefit of the Angioma Alliance, puts you up close with some of baseball’s top coaches, statisticians, scouts, doctors, and scientists. https://www.saberseminar.com/

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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Spent the last week "replicating" several sabersem presentations from the last sabersem. Was pretty fun! Going to highlight each one I did here. Shoutout to @srbrown70.bsky.social for the list of slides, very helpful.

if you want the repo, it's here github.com/nickwan/2025...

GitHub - nickwan/2025-sabersem-inspo: not exactly replications, but loosely based

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 27

Chap Cunningham and Zack Aisen's presentation is also on Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVW...

Chap Cunningham & Zack Aisen Saberseminar Presentation 8/24/2025

YouTube video by Zack Aisen

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 26

Check out some of the great presentations from Saberseminar 2025 here

Stephen Sutton-Brown @srbrown70.bsky.social · Aug 26

These are all the slides and github repos from SaberSeminar that I've seen folks post so far. If anyone sees anything missing let me know and I'll add it to the doc! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

saberseminar 2025 public presentations

“Path Finder” - Conner Pelletier, Sam Ehrlich, Tanner Stokey https://drivelinebb-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/sam_ehrlich_drivelinebaseball_com/EV1f3NJENzpPm3J_-9Q9VJ0BCFOkCI9MbbppiN4vN8GHyQ?rtime...

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Derek VanRiper @dvr.bsky.social · Aug 25

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾

@enosarris.bsky.social and I discussed Zack Wheeler's outlook following a TOS diagnosis, Samuel Basallo's extension, Shane Bieber's new kick-change, and takeaways from Eno's trip to Saberseminar.....

Audio: pod.fo/e/31d349
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

Episode thumbail for the August 25th episode of Rates & Barrels featuring Blue Jays pitcher Shane Bieber.

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Alan Nathan @pobguy.bsky.social · Aug 25

Over the weekend I gave a presentation @Saberseminar about my research on torpedo bats, based on computational modeling. Experimental results are expected soon. Non-trivial result: Width of sweet spot is potentially greater for torpedo.
Slides: baseball.physics.illinois.edu/ppt/Nathan-T...

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Rob Arthur @robarthur.bsky.social · Aug 25

It was a good one. Our best yet by fundraising--we'll hit, or at least get close to, $75k total--and a ton of great talks. Happy to see everyone, happy to see a lot of students get interviews, and excited to continue growing next year.

Dan Brooks @brooksbaseball.net · Aug 24

Well. @saberseminar.bsky.social 2025 officially in the books. Thank you all. ❤️

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Dan Brooks @brooksbaseball.net · Aug 24

Well. @saberseminar.bsky.social 2025 officially in the books. Thank you all. ❤️

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Dan Eck presenting his work on the Full House model that was recently featured in the New York Times!

Dan Eck showing a chart of estimated talent pool on a stage at the Saberseminar event

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Kyle Lobner @bykylelobner.bsky.social · Aug 24

Today I heard Jack Olszewski at @saberseminar.bsky.social describe his pantomime of Trunk Lean as "looking like a teapot" and I'm not sure I'll ever think of it any other way.

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Zack Borowiak with a great visual of "indirect" framing runs--showing how batters tend to swing more outside the zone against good framers. This value isn't captured by traditional framing models.

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matt dennewitz @mattdennewitz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Enormous thank you to @saberseminar.bsky.social for having @enosarris.bsky.social and myself to talk about imputing arm angles.

Our slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Code: github.com/pitchingplus...

Imputing Arm Angles

Imputing Arm Angle from Readily Available Metrics Eno Sarris, Matt Dennewitz: Saber Seminar 2025 eno

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Justin Choi @justinochoi.bsky.social · Aug 24

Alright, I've tidied up the repo and added my presentation. Thank you to everyone who was at @saberseminar.bsky.social yesterday! Was a pleasure to meet so many bright and interesting people.

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GitHub - justinochoi/SaberSeminar2025

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Quin Yuter from Northwestern is talking about Predictability Score: a new way to measure pitch sequencing.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Round 2 for Driveline, this time Jack Lambert and Marek Ramillo, now on pitch mixes and recommending changes to them.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Another student talk, now from Zachary Levitan--on Computer Vision and measuring pitch control. Neat topic already

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

This was from Gabriel Applebaum's excellent talk about batters eyes at different MLB parks. Great research and follow-up in speaking with opthalmologists and experts in visual perception.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

MLB parks are easier to hit in during the night, AAA parks are easier to hit in during the day. Hypothesis is that this stems from lighting quality.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Winding up, the presenters come up with a way to recommend changes to hitters' swings and determine how valuable those changes will be. Really neat quantitative approach to player development.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Interesting (and intuitive) inverse relationship between power and contact with swings. You can have one or the other, but notably, power is overall much more valuable than contact.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Two guys from @drivelinebaseball.com, Connor Pelletier and Sam Ehrlich, are up now to talk about bat paths and an analysis of some of the new data from Statcast.

Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Brandon Krouppa using snapshot hazard modeling to better capture sequences of events

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Stephen Sutton-Brown @srbrown70.bsky.social · Aug 23

My slides from today. Will do a thread on what I found at some point
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GitHub - sbrown70/saberseminar_2025

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 23

Genta Ikawa from the Chiba Lotte Marines discussing the use of sabermetrics in Japanese (NPB) baseball. Trades are very rare, so the teams rely heavily on drafting and developing talent.

Genta Ikawa speaking on a stage at the sabermetrics event Saberseminar

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’m down at IIT hanging out at @saberseminar.bsky.social. So many great baseball talks today, but this one on the use of sabermetrics in Japan might be my favorite. (cc: @danevans108.bsky.social)

A man stands at a podium in front of a large white projector screen. The title of the slide reads: “How sabermetrics is applied holistically in NPB,” by Genta Ikawa (Chiba Lotte Marines; Team Strategy & Research and Development chief Analyst)

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Saberseminar @saberseminar.bsky.social · Aug 23

(wind AND other weather conditions, of course)