Schedule

  • Registration, Meet and Greet, and Coffee

  • Welcome, Introductions, and Pitch

  • Design and Code

  • Lunch

  • More Design and Code

  • Presentation

  • Venue change (TBA) and Awards announcements

Sponsors

Prizes

TBA

  • Boston Overall Winners

    The winning team of the Boston competition will win an annual MLB.TV Premium subscription for each team member (maximum team size of four).

  • Baseball Hack Day Grand Prize Winner

    In addition, the team who takes the grand prize (best of the winning teams of participating cities) will also recieve additional prize (and major bragging rights!)

  • Best Use of SportRadar API

    The project across all cities that makes the best use of SportRadar API wins a 2017 season (6-month) Real Time MLB key.

  • Boston Runner-Ups

    The runner-up team of the Boston competition will win an annual Baseball Prospectus Super Premium subscription for each team member (maximum team size of four).

  • and more! (Want to sponsor? Please email us.)

Judges

  • Michael Amoroso

    Senior Director of Product Development, MLB Advanced Media

  • Ben Romy

    Software Engineer, MLB Advanced Media

  • David Thyresson

    Co-founder, stattleship
    CTO, Sports Innovation Lab

Come join us, March 25!

Love creating stuff on your computer and LOVE baseball? Come hack with us on March 25 at General Assembly Boston, 125 Summer St (13th Floor), Boston, MA 02110!

Baseball Hack Day is an annual on-site, in-person hacking event (also known as hackathon, hack fest or code fest) where area baseball fans come together and create baseball-related projects to compete in a fun, friendly, one-day competition.

Born in Boston spring of 2012, Baseball Hack Day is a grass-roots, open-sourced movement, held at the same day at different locations all around the world. The goal of the day is to bring creative tech minds into one room, and see what they can produce within a limited time. The project could be (but is not limited to) a tool, simple web app, mobile app, web site, or data visualization.

This event is based on the principal of the original the Hack Day Manifesto and will always be free to attend, thanks to our generous sponsors. We are run by volunteers, pro bono, labor for love, and we’ll never be for-profit. We follow hack code of conduct.

New to hack days? Have no fear. This is a hackathon of developers and designers of all levels. See past submissions to get an idea. See our resources in github wiki, check out our inspiraton blog on tumblr, and follow us on Twitter @BaseballHackDay

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Guidelines & Rules

First and foremost, this event will be a success if everyone has a good time. That is why we have a Code of Conduct. All attendees, sponsors, partners, volunteers and staff at our hackathon are required to agree with it. TLDR; Basically, please don't do anything that would detract from the fairness or fun of the event. Respect your fellow hackers.

We are using a hack submission service called DevPost. In order to win, you need to submit the hacks through it. It helps organizers keep track of the teams and the projects they create.

Hacks could be (but are not limited to) a tool, application, software, website, or data visualization and may be built using any programming language and platform that you choose. Teams can be of any size, but awards are only given to up to four individuals. Hacks will be judged for 1) Creativity/Originality, 2) Design/Presentation, and 3) Execution/Functionality.

The majority of your coding must happen during the event. Some work done prior to the event is allowed, but it should be disclosed at your demo. Ideas that are compact and executable in one-day format are encouraged, and we will reward teams that recognize this time constraint.

When time is up, you will have short show-and-tell and demo time (3 to 5 minutes, depending on how many projects there are). Judges also will come around during the event and you are encouraged to tell them about your projects at that time.

Prototypes/mockups for demo are OK, but working websites or mobile apps are strongly encouraged.