Beyond the Times
Dreams Come True with You!
In search of the Infinite Possibilities
We are committed to transforming the history of sports into inspiration for people everywhere. The history of sports is the story of players who have overcome adversity. Creative players who make surprising performances leave traces of their ingenuity, and discovering those traces will inspire us with great emotion and wonder.
Since 2003, Sports Access has been developing analysis systems and sharing the joy of understanding sports with people around the world.
And our next challenge is to bring the future to sports by providing technology that prevents injuries to people and athletes in every country and region.
Works
“Best Nine Players in Major League Baseball: Discover the Power of Top Players Since 1901”
Author: Toshiya Ono, CEO of Sports Access Corporation
Language: Japanese only
Publication date: December 2013
「メジャーリーグ 最強のベストナイン～1901年以降の一流選手の実力を知る」
2013年12月発刊（PHP出版）
著者：小野俊哉
R&D
Sports Access has developed sports gear that prevents finger injuries to players and also prevents elbow injuries that would otherwise result in Tommy John surgery.
Esports has over 100 million players worldwide. The speed of your fingers decides victory or defeat, and huge prize money is at stake in the World Cup. Our sports gear is the perfect product for esports players around the world…
STATS
Do you agree with the idea that baseball batting average is the best statistic for expressing how hot a batter is during the regular season? I beg to differ. BA treats singles and home runs the same.
Then, home runs and RBIs are better than BA. Is that right? Unfortunately, no. They never show that you get runners on first and third base with your own hit and set up the run.
So I develop a new metric that focuses on the process leading to runs, simple and easy to understand for everyone…
Column by Toshiya Ono
Yomiuri Giants pitcher Tsuneo Horiuchi threw a 170 km/h pitch. The true meaning of the pitching technique and 165 km/h pitch of Shohei Ohtani…
→A series of columns published in daily Japanese newspaper Nikkei in November 2016
New metric showing ability to earn RBIs names Yokohama DeNA’s Masashi Kuwahara and SoftBank’s Kenta Imamiya as dangerous players…
→A series of columns published in Nikkan Gendai, a Japanese evening tabloid newspaper, in November 2018.
Masters League in Japan
There used to be a Masters League in Japanese professional baseball from 2001 to 2009. Among the players, Yutaka Enatsu and Choji Murata supported the Tokyo Dreams and contributed to their victory…
Ibaraki GG
The Ibaraki Golden Goals is one of the strongest club teams in Japan. Under the leadership of skipper Kinichi Hagimoto, a legendary Japanese comedian, they won their first All-Japan Club Baseball Championship in 2007 and have since won the title three times. The team is currently managed by Ayumi Kataoka…
