Gameday Comparison

With the MLB.TV blackout the other day, it saved me a screen split while I watched the game on TV.  So I decided to make another annual comparison of Gameday competitors including the rudimentary awful espn gametracker and the overcharged small print cbs sportsline gamecenter.
Re-sizing windows for each, I could have a good setup with veb on the right, and toggling between either mlb.tv or gameday on the left.
Last year I had liked the cbs gametracker best for content, but found the type too small, and generally stuck with gameday.  It seamed that the frequency of lock ups was about the same for each, while espn was generally the slowest with least detail of each play.
This year, as many have noticed, gameday has improved for the worse, and the dimension change has made split screen use not very good.
In contrast, cbs has definitely improved gamecenter, making it easy to shrink the width by a column, so I can fit the window and just slide sideways to see either home or away roster info.  What is new is having pitch speeds for most, and even a guess at pitch type.  This has sorely been missed, until now.  

What is amusing is to check out the hitting zones by color for each batter, dividing the strike zone into 9 sectors.  The "Black holes" are "Cool Zones" in Blue by accumulated season batting average.  If you check out the Card's roster right now, it's not pretty.  The shocker was seeing 8 of 9 in blue for apu. It seams that he's been getting out on soft tosses, but I hadn't guessed that it was for every part of the plate too.  This thing makes some of the line-up look like there is no zone where a "mistake" pitch might occur.

Otherwise, there are lots of other screens for accumulated ab's per hitter and easy access to situational stats.  Gameday has been replaced for 2007.  And the boys from the Extra Small Penis Network can keep their trivia toy for themselves again.

Now that fangraphs has win probability charting live, which can also be conveniently resized for split window I can toggle fangraphs, gamecenter, and mlb.tv while keeping veb open.

Now if sb nation could let us have veb auto update could be nice.  And it could also be interesting if they could setup splits home and away, we could out pace cubbie blue in the upcoming series.  (obviously it would've been tough for Charlie to keep up the bucco posts as we saw, but the home/away splits could help generate new interest for the sb nation laggards).

If anybody has a better screen set-up, short of multiple monitors, I'd love to hear it.