Analytics is a hot topic in sports today. Pro teams and leagues are on the look out for new ways to use analytics for a plethora of decision making instances — from improving the fan experience and building sponsorships to making better draft picks and predicting injuries. Everyone recalls the Moneyball story about how the […]
CapGeek was an essential tool for hockey followers. Created by Matthew Wuest, it was a website dedicated to tracking the status NHL teams’ salary caps, player contracts, and free agents. Prior to starting CapGeek, Wuest was a freelance hockey writer. Through numerous channels and sources, Wuest was able to collect extensive data in order to […]
This week, two teams in the WNBA kicked off their preseason prep with a different than usual scrimmage game. The Washington Mystics and the Minnesota Lynx played what was called an “analytics scrimmage,” a game that is analyzed based on numbers and statistics instead of the rules. Ted Leonsis, owner of the Mystics and the […]
STATS LLC, a sports technology, data and content company, announced today that it will be joining forces with MVPindex, a social media intelligence platform, in order to offer new NFL content to their clients. The merger will combine MVPindex’s social media brand values of the NFL and NFL teams with STATS’ NFL content and data, […]
Sports technology companies have been providing fans, athletes, and sports organizations more innovative ways of processing information. The landscape of sports analytics products and services has changed with the recent collaboration announcement between performance software giant Kinduct Technologies and sports analytic titan STATS. If you are not familiar with Kinduct Technologies think of the technology […]
