95% local AI + 5% GPT-6: a full basketball tracking pipeline breakdown

TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-11

Dev @skalskip92 shares a basketball analysis pipeline that runs 95% on local models, calling GPT-6 "Astra" for only 5% of the work: detecting ball and players, tracking and re-identifying players across plays, OCR of jersey numbers, recognizing the player in possession, detecting court keypoints, and mapping positions and trajectories. His takeaway: frontier models are powerful but expensive — use them only where they actually make a difference. A deep dive is linked.

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