For many years sporting franchises around the globe have been searching for new ways to keep their athletes at the peak of their performance. The job of the old stat-man who would frantically scribble down numbers throughout a match has made way for technology’s finest. In the modern era, technology companies are rising from the bottom of the barrel to change the sporting landscape we once knew into something entirely different.
Last week, the MLB announced that they would be making their new Statcast statistics available to the general public. The MLB wanted to release the information just in time for their All-Star Weekend in Cincinnati, and already they are beginning to flex Statcast’s muscles. The Statcast Twitter account revealed a series of videos of the […]
DorsaVi, an Australian movement sensor technology company, has added two high-profile clients to their already growing list. The New Orleans Saints and the Cleveland Browns have been testing out their sensor technology, and have opted to use it for the duration of this upcoming regular season. The reigning NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors, and the […]
Baseball has long been a sport that relies heavily upon statistics. Now there is a new series of offensive and defensive metrics that the MLB has introduced using their Statcast tracking technology. Statcast, which uses a combination of radar and camera technology, is able to ascertain a number of statistics that have not been readily […]
Tracking athletes to generate actionable data and then translating that data into digestible visualizations for coaches and players has become one of the most important technological developments to ever impact sports. Player tracking has made its largest impact in the NBA where the league has made it a point to track every single player and ball movement for […]
