What to Build

Use the MLB-provided datasets, public datasets, and Google Cloud AI tools to build a project for baseball fans within one of the following Challenges:

• Wild Card Challenge 1: Come up with your own MLB fan engagement project!
  Use any of the data sets provided, public datasets, and Google Cloud AI tools to build a project for baseball fans. What will you dream up to next-level the MLB fan experience with Google Cloud? 

• Challenge 2: Personalized Fan Highlights: Build a system that allows fans to select team(s), player(s), etc. to follow and create audio, video, and/or text digests that fans could receive on a regular cadence to stay up on the latest highlights and commentary. Ensure your solution supports fans who speak English, Spanish, and Japanese. 

• Challenge 3: Real-Time Tool Tips: Build a model and showcase its use in an interactive application that provides real-time insights into baseball strategy for casual viewers, explaining the tactics behind each play as the game unfolds.

• Challenge 4: Generate Statcast Data from Old Videos: Create a tool that extracts fundamental Statcast metrics (e.g., pitch speed, exit velocity) from archival game videos using computer vision. 

• Challenge 5: Prospect Prediction: Build a platform predicting a prospects MLB potential, projecting career impact based on current performance and historical comparisons. 

The project must be capable of being successfully installed and running consistently on the platform for which it is intended and must function as depicted in the video and/or expressed in the text description.

Projects must be newly created during the Submission Period.

What to Submit:

• Include a URL to the hosted Project for judging and testing.
• Include a text description that includes a summary of the Projects features and functionality, technologies used, information about any other data sources used, and your findings and learnings as you worked through the project.
• Include a URL to your Open Source code repository to show how your project was built. The code repository must include an Open Source license and be public to allow access for judging and testing. By submitting this code, you confirm you have the authority and right to share the code for the purposes described in this Contest.
• Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission must meet the following criteria:
  • Should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the platform(s) for which it was built.
  • No parts of the submission can be  derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is inappropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the Contest.
  • No part of that submission contains content, material or any element that is unlawful, or otherwise in violation of or contrary to all applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations in any country,  state or applicable territory where you created the video and in the United States.
  • The Submission must not contain any content, material or element that displays any third party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark or otherwise indicates a sponsorship or endorsement by a third party, commercial entity or that is not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. 
  • The Submission must be an original, unpublished work that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or entity.
  • It cannot contain any content, element, or material that violates a third partys publicity, privacy or intellectual property rights.
  • It should not be longer than 3 minutes.  If it is longer than 3 minutes, only the first 3 minutes will be evaluated.
  • It must conform to the technical requirements set forth on the Contest site, including that the Submission must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube or Vimeo, and a link to the video must be provided on the Submission form on the Contest Site.
  • It must be in English or include English subtitles. Written parts of entries must be in English to be eligible.  The Submission must, at a minimum, support English language use.

Check out the rules tab for full details on submissions.

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