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Sydney Roosters prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has been offered a possible pathway back into the New Zealand fold after being named in coach Stephen Kearneys Four Nations train-on squad. Cheap Air Max Sale .Waerea-Hargreaves, 27, has not played for the Kiwis since their 34-2 thrashing by Australia in the 2013 World Cup final.But he was named among 23 players selected by Kearney from clubs who did not qualify for the NRL finals series, as the coach ponders his squad for the Four Nations tournament in England starting in October.An additional 13 players will be named from teams still in the premiership hunt, before Kearney whittles the squad to 24 after the NRL grand final.Eight players named on Wednesday are uncapped, including Warriors quartet Solomone Kata, David Fusitua, Sam Lisone and Bodene Thompson.Other potential debutants include Tigers centre Tim Simona, Eels centre Brad Takairangi, Roosters prop Isaac Liu and Manly forward Addin Fonua-Blake.Veteran five-eighth Thomas Leuluai was included in the 23 and is in line to replace the unavailable Kieran Foran in the No.6 jersey.Broncos young gun Kodi Nikorima, who started at five-eighth in the Anzac Day Test this year, has been ruled out for the season with a shoulder injury.KIWIS TRAIN-ON SQUAD: Lewis Brown, Addin Fonua-Blake, David Fusitua, Shaun Johnson, Solomone Kata, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Thomas Leuluai, Sam Lisone, Isaac Liu, Tuimoala Lolohea, Issac Luke, Simon Mannering, Ben Matulino, Manu Mau, Sam Moa, Jason Nightingale, Tim Simona, Brad Takairangi, Martin Taupau, Elijah Taylor, Bodene Thompson, Manu Vatuvei, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves. 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But their presence also drew attention from an unlikely source, with a series of Major League Baseball data miners camping out in Lauderhill for the weekend to see how to bring their analytics to another sport.Eleven members of MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), who help curate data for the online services known as MLB Statcast and MLB At Bat, set up a trailer at the Central Broward Regional Park to collect as much player and ball-tracking data as possible in an effort to bring their new-age stats approach to cricket from baseball.Were doing some research on how can we apply our Statcast data acquisition technologies to other sports, i.e. cricket, because baseball and cricket are very similar to each other, says Kevin Prince, a broadcast analyst with MLBAM who is originally from Kent, England, but has been working in the USA for more than 30 years. Were here to gather all the player-tracking and ball-tracking data, hopefully to provide a system that can provide the Statcast type of analysis that weve perfected for baseball, and hopefully provide that for cricket.As part of their technical set-up at the stadium in Lauderhill, the crew set up six cameras mounted to the floodlight towers on the west side of the ground, as well as a radar above the sightscreen on the north side. The cameras track player movement while the radar tracks ball movement. The crew visited Lauderhill last month for the Caribbean Premier League and their interest was sufficiently piqued for them to make a return for the India-West Indies T20s to see what they could apply from baseball principles.Its the fourth-generation stats, more performance-driven on the field, says Per Von Rosen, a technical manager with Statcast, originally from Stockholm, Sweden, who came to the USA last year but has previously done cricket analysis in England. So, how hard did you pitch, how hard did you hit, exit velocity of the ball coming off the bat. In fielding, the route efficiency taken to catch the ball.We know where a fielder was when the play started, we know where he caught the ball, and therefore we can know which path he took. Was it a straight line, did he deviate from that straight path, and how fast did he react to the ball off the bat - all of these things. Its basically putting together his athletic capabilities. Some guys always happen to be in the right place to make the catch, and now were putting numbers on that.One of the most popular data points in terms of fan traffic for Statcast online is exit velocity. Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins, the 2016 All-Star Game home-run derby champion, has nine of the 15 highest exit velocity measurements of the season, with a highest of 123.9mph speed of the ball coming off the bat. However, six of the nine connections only went for singles and none for home runs.The hardest you can hit a ball has to be a trajectory thats a little more flat, says Rob Engel, a senior software engineer with MLBAM. Any time you hit a home run, you have to put a little more launch angle on the ball, and youre not actually hitting it as square as you would hit a line drive. So the farthest home runs are technically hit a little softer than a hard line drive straight back to the pitcher, because the bat maintains contact with the ball longer, so you hit it harder.In cricket, the use of these metrics could demonstrate that players who hit sixes arent necessarily swinging or connecting harder, especially compared to a drive straight back down the pitch or a cut straight to point. Little nuggets like this are what Engel says draw fans in. Big numbers are sexy. Where the Statcast appearss to be having a significant impact in terms of media scrutiny for players is in terms of the fielding aspects, which have long been neglected. Air Max Outlet Online. . Engel, who is originally from San Francisco, was at his first ever cricket match on Saturday, but says he has immediately identified areas where cricket data could be improved for fielders based on what he has done with baseball.Things are really registering well with fans, as well as smaller things like arm strength, route efficiency and distance covered, theyre easy to comprehend, says Engel. Arm strength measures the speed of the ball out of the arm from an outfield throw, route efficiency tracks the distance and time it takes to field a ball from the moment it leaves the bat and is cross-analysed against raw distance covered.Another area is base-running speed, including acceleration time it takes to reach top speed as well as top overall speed from home to first, first to third base and so on. But even subtler things are tracked, such as how big a lead a base runner gets off the base before attempting to steal. They are learning the slim margins that allow for a slower runner to gain a bigger advantage and get to the next base quicker than a runner with a higher speed rating.For cricket, it can be taken to measure fastest runners between the wickets and the impact of acceleration and deceleration while converting one run into two or two into three. Not only are the measures of interest to fans, but teams are able to utilise them for scouting purposes to gauge whose arm they cant or can take on for a second run from the boundary.Theres an outfielder for the Yankees who threw a ball 105mph with a crow hop earlier this year - Aaron Hicks, Engel says. That sparked a Twitter controversy - how can an outfielder throw harder than Aroldis Chapman? But if you look at the physics of the throw, with a running start and a crow hop, it makes sense you can throw the ball harder than from a [pitchers] mound without a running start. So those things are really registering well with fans, as well as smaller things like route efficiency and distance covered, theyre easy to comprehend.Traditional fielding stats only credit you negatively, and its basically who screwed up the least rather than who gave us the best performance. So now we have a forward-thinking model on what fielders can give us the most out of their physicality as opposed to who screws up the least.Prince says they are currently in discussions with the ECB, IPL teams, and Big Bash franchises. who are all keen to gain access to the Statcast capabilities. Baseball has the leading digital asset creation and development tools out there, says Prince. The whole Statcast aspect has been recognised by all the other sports as being a groundbreaking structure, so theres a lot of people interested in these aspects of the game. A lot of people are interested in seeing how were going to go here.Von Rosen says in his time watching cricket in England, he noticed how fielders were underappreciated, with only catches and run-outs marked in traditional stats. The Statcast technology can track fielders at point, for example, who may be cutting off singles with their speed to the ball off the bat, but have not got the recognition they deserve. In that way, MLBAMs data could transform how cricket analyses player performance.You go online and you start reading your cricket news or baseball news, what we want to do is put material on there that youll never stop looking for news, says Von Rosen. Youll be watching video after video, play after play with all of this information you can see, so you never really want to stop. ' ' '