Establishing a Theoretical Bound for Baseball Codebreaking

Professor Anton Dahbura Ethan Yang 23 Jack Pausic 22 Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering Baltimore MD Design Day 2020 Baseball is a sport rich in its tradition and notorious for its intricate strategy One of the oldest practices in the sport is the utilization of hand signals to conceal one teams strategy from its opponent If a team is able to steal or decrypt its opponents signs without their knowledge they can anticipate everything from upcoming pitches to baserunning strategy gaining a significant competitive advantage There have been multiple documented instances of technologicallyaided attempts to steal signs in professional baseball but our project solely focuses on the method of observing the signs being transmitted from coach to player a widelyaccepted practice occasionally employed by even the casual Little League coach This type of observation can often reveal informative patterns and is not considered cheating in the baseball community at large

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