For those who may not know, every year the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference holds the First Pitch Case Competition. The competition is designed to give top graduate students the opportunity to work with a major sports organization to analyze and evaluate their most challenging issues. This year, teams worked with Ticketmaster to explore better […]
This section of SportTechie, “Sports Tech Wire”, contains original press releases issued by various companies and industry organizations. The releases are reviewed by the SportTechie editorial staff to ensure relevancy to the sports technology industry. For information and access, send your name and email address to info@SportTechie.com Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — April 8, 2016— VERT, a leader in wearable […]
IBM has been an official sponsor of The Masters for 20 years now, and this year’s tournament will be no different. Except this year’s partnership will feature IBM Watson, their cognitive technology, and a long time tour pro that bares the same name, Tom Watson. Tom Watson is set to play his final competitive rounds […]
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Patrick Corbin’s prospects for this upcoming MLB season look good. But just two years ago, he was one of the 25 percent of MLB pitchers to undergo Tommy John surgery, which fixes a torn ligament in the elbow. Get The Latest MLB Tech News In Your Inbox! He is one of the lucky ones—20 percent […]
Conventional statistics are no longer enough for sports in the über-advanced twenty-first century. While it was once sufficient to track just batting average and home runs in baseball, analysts now turn to metrics like fielding independent pitching and batting average on balls in play to judge how well players are performing. Similarly, in basketball, player speed, […]
