Sunday, April 10, 2005
Insight
I've just finished my Neuro-Vision treatment, which is this non-surgical procedure where you basically train your brain to improve its recognition of shapes. So now I'm down to 20/20 vision, whereas previously I was at roughly 20/60. Which is cool, but I was thinking about this in the context of Bret Boone getting Lasik - would be interesting to see whether it helped him any, although Matthew Namee's study last year seemed to indicate that eye surgery improves BA and power, but not on-base percentage, and the effects aren't big. Weird. That would mean better vision helps you hit harder and better, but has no effect on strike zone recognition.
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I've just finished my Neuro-Vision treatment, which is this non-surgical procedure where you basically train your brain to improve its recognition of shapes. So now I'm down to 20/20 vision, whereas previously I was at roughly 20/60. Which is cool, but I was thinking about this in the context of Bret Boone getting Lasik - would be interesting to see whether it helped him any, although Matthew Namee's study last year seemed to indicate that eye surgery improves BA and power, but not on-base percentage, and the effects aren't big. Weird. That would mean better vision helps you hit harder and better, but has no effect on strike zone recognition.
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I haven't read Namee's study, but his conclusion makes sense. The difference between hitting the ball square and not seems smaller than the difference between swinging or not swinging at a borderline pitch.
Yeah, I agree with that... putting good wood on the ball is often a matter of an inch on the bat. But if BA rises and OBP stays constant, that means their isolated discipline (the part of OBP that isn't explained by BA) is falling, which the Namee study notes. That's the part I find strange: it's not just that their plate discipline remains constant, their plate discipline actually gets worse.
Nah, I think 20/60 (I think - I find it hard to think in feet) is the best it can help unfortunately...
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