Yankees, Mets ... and Virtual Gold's Data Mining Software ... Digging in for the World
Series ... 

                    

HARTSDALE, N.Y., Oct. 24  By way of illustrating how its
cutting-edge, patent-pending VirtualMiner(TM) software can be used to
transform raw data into strategic insights, Virtual Gold, Inc., a leading data
mining and business intelligence company, is working with Major League
Baseball, SportsLine.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:  SPLN), and MasterCard to create the
feature called "Game Within The Game" on http://www.mlb.com, the official Web
site of Major League Baseball.  Following each game, Virtual Gold provides
MLB.com with unique statistical facts that have been mined from game data.
Within minutes, the MasterCard sponsored feature is available on the site,
providing Subway Series fans with additional facts from which to debate the
superiority of their team.

A few examples from Game 2:

Rocket went outside, not inside, with a 1-2. Roger Clemens got ahead of
batters with a 1-2 count on 20 occasions. Despite his tendency to throw
inside, Clemens threw only one inside pitch with this favorable count, as
opposed to 10 outside pitches. The Mets hitters went 0-for-6 with a 1-2 count
against Clemens, making out twice on outside pitches and four times on pitches
over the middle of the plate.

Hampton needed to go high or low for success.  Mike Hampton performed well
as long as he avoided belt-high pitches. Yankee batters went 0-for-5 on low
pitches against the Mets starting pitcher, and 0-for-3 against high pitches.
The Yankee hitters slugged Hampton when his pitches were at a middle-height,
crushing eight hits in 16 at-bats (.500).

The complexity of this mining exercise is best understood by noting that a
single pitch thrown by a World Series pitcher has more than 2 million
combinations of circumstances, making it difficult for such patterns to be
identified without the use of Virtual Gold's software.


Virtual Gold Inc. has a comprehensive suite of products and services based
on VirtualMiner to enable enterprise, e-business, and small business customers
to transform their business data into strategic insights. The suite includes a
joint offering of VirtualMiner and IBM Corporation's Data Management software,
as well as 3-dV(TM), an embedded offering of VirtualMiner in Dictaphone
Corporation's da Vinci(TM) call center monitoring system. For more
information, please visit http://www.virtualgold.com/mlb or e-mail Virtual
Gold at info@virtualgold.com or call 914-761-2334.



SOURCE Virtual Gold Inc.
Web Site: http://www.virtualgold.com 
http://www.mlb.com
http://www.sportsline.com

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