2016 Baseball Hack Day is on March 19

About the hack day

Love creating stuff on your computer and LOVE baseball? Come hack with us!

The fourth annual Baseball Hack Day is a fun, friendly one-day hacking competition for baseball fans. It is spreading around the world, and if you'd like to start your own chapter, Read this google document.

It is the day where area baseball minds come together and see what cool projects can be created within a limited time. The project could be (but is not limited to) a tool, app, website, or data visualization. Baseball Hack Day is a free event thanks to our generous sponsors and volunteers.

See our resources in github wiki, check out our inspiraton blog on tumblr, and follow us on Twitter @BaseballHackDay

Past Winners

2015 winner: PITCHe/x - 3D mini-game where you face off against MLB pitchers by Daniel Shin and Thomas Park
See all submissions from 2015 Baseball Hack Day
2014 winners: MLB Gameday Mosiac by Brendan Donahue, Bill Wilder, Maura Wiler, Brendon Donahue, and Joan Wortman. And Need My Baseball Fix by David Lee.
See all submissions from Baseball Hack Day 2014
2013 winners: How did we get here? by Simon Mahler and Ian Malott, and Where should i have been born to play MLB by James Hrisho
See submissions and recap from 2013 Baseball Hack Day
2012 winner: Rally Cry by John Hamilton, Kenji Ross, Mike Paulo, Doug Pfeffer
See recap of inagural Baseball Hack Day in 2012

History

Baseball Hack Day was orginally born out of a Boston area news & geek meetup group Hacks/Hackers and Society of American Baseball Research Boston Chapter after watching terrible collapse of 2011 Red Sox season. Our first event was held at The Boston Globe on March 24, 2012 with 35 participants with 9 projects. In 2013, thoughtbot hosted a 31-participants, 10-projects fun and inspiring hack day in March. In 2014, Baseball Hack day expanded into two cities, Boston and Philadelphia. You can see submissions and winners of the past years: 2013 and 2014. In 2015, we are expanding to Chicago, and San Francisco!

The event is based on the principal of the Hack Day Manifesto. It will always be free to attend, and we are run by volunteers, and we’ll never be for-profit (It's a labor of love).