PLEASE NOTE: This is a physical, location-only hackathon, you need to pre-register to get tickets for either the Boston location or the Toronto location from baseballhackday.com, and actually show up at the venue on March 11. This is NOT a virtual hackathon. 

Love creating stuff on your computer and LOVE baseball? Come hack with us at your local hackathon on March 11, 2023!

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

Born in Boston spring of 2012, Baseball Hack Day is a grass-roots, open-sourced movement, held on 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, website, 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.

Requirements

To be eligible, you do need to be on-site at one of our locations on March 11.

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 a one-day format are encouraged, and we will reward teams that recognize this time constraint.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$400 in prizes

Boston Winners (2)

The winning team of the Boston competition will win a one-year subscription of Baseball Prospectus Premium for each team member (maximum team size of four).

Toronto Winners

The winning team of the Boston competition will win a one-year subscription of Baseball Prospectus Premium for each team member (maximum team size of four).

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

TBA

TBA

Alex Speier

Alex Speier
Red Sox Beat Reporter, The Boston Globe

Aidan Jackson-Evans

Aidan Jackson-Evans
Customer Success Coordinator, Sports Reference

Matthew Carroll

Matthew Carroll
Professor of the Practice, Journalism, Northeastern University

Pete Saunders

Pete Saunders
Director, Baseball Systems at Toronto Blue Jays

Maria Kamali

Maria Kamali
AI/ML leader and Data Scientist

Judging Criteria

  • Creativity/Originality
    How unique is this project? Is it a creative idea?
  • Design/Aesthetics
    How beautiful are the final product and presentation?
  • Execution/Functionality
    Does the product function as it was set out to? How well did the team execute the idea within the limited time limit?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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