Diamond Kinetics and SportsBoard have partnered to provide comprehensive data evaluations for baseball, softball, golf, and tennis players. SportsBoard began as an app created for iPad and iPhone that provides player assessments in various sports, including basketball, baseball, and lacrosse. Diamond Kinetics uses their SwingTracker technology that combines sensors, algorithms, and video to measure 15 different aspects of a swing, 11 of which are more granular metrics for the four summary components: Speed, Power, Quickness, and Control.
Together, Diamond Kinetics and SportsBoard intend to revolutionize the evaluation process for coaches by taking information gathered by the SwingTracker and streaming it to SportsBoard to produce an “Excel-like format” for each player in categories of batted balls, pop times, and pitching and throwing speeds.
“Never before has it been so easy to gather, assemble, analyze, and distribute swing metrics with other measurable skills results like batted ball exit speed, overhand throw speed, etc,” said Gregg Jacobs, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SportsBoard.
“Integrating SportsBoard and Diamond Kinetics offers a first-of-its kind solution that will optimize processes for team coaches and combine operators.”
Here’s exactly how the partnership will work from an operational perspective:
- The SwingTracker sensor sends swing analytics to the Swing Tracker app via Bluetooth
- The SwingTracker app computes, presents and evaluates the swing metrics
- After completing a swing session, the player’s SwingTracker swing data then syncs seamlessly with the corresponding player profile in the SportsBoard platform
- Once this process is complete, SportsBoard can generate:
- A single evaluation for every player with swing metrics (and other testing results such as running speeds, agility-shuttle speeds, pitching/throwing speed and more)
- A combine report for the event which lists all players who participated and their results in a simple Excel-like format
- For SportsBoard customer unlimited filtering/viewing options online for any combine operator, all within the SportsBoard’s cloud
“SportsBoard’s player management platform and the SwingTracker system bring great value to coaches and players. Integrating our in-depth and objective swing motion data within the SportsBoard platform will further streamline the analysis process for coaches throughout baseball and softball,” asserts Diamond Kinetics’ Chief Executive Officer, C.J. Handron.
This partnership makes a lot of sense on many levels. SportsBoard is a player assessment platform that coaches, recruiters, and players use. So, what better information to provide on such a platform then the actionable information that Diamond Kinetics’ SwingTracker system delivers?