The Professional Squash Association will begin using athlete data supplied by Sports Data Labs to enhance its broadcasts and provide third-party organizations with real-time information. With the partnership, squash becomes...
A new set of data is bringing a new set of problems to professional rugby players. The players and their clubs have found themselves in a legal strife over the ownership of player data, both performance data and data related to injuries. Not surprisingly, the players feel they own the rights to the data; rugby […]
CHICAGO — In today’s sports landscape, if you’re not analyzing data gained from practice & competition, you might be falling behind. Performance is no longer assessed as one whole entity; it’s broken down into things like biomechanics, body composition, hydration and tons more. For the University of Oregon, one of the more successful college athletic […]
Today the sports industry’s elite meet in Boston for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Industry vets come together with today’s innovators and tomorrow’s business superstars. Experts will address sports data, tech and other hot topics in the industry. One question is strongly debated: who owns the data? The Possibilities Imagine practicing your swing in […]
Europe has recently adopted new privacy regulation, called the General Data Protection Regulation or ‘GDPR’. This regulation is innovative, but also a bit strict. It’s therefore likely that new ‘data-driven’ products and services from non-EU countries will need to be revised before they can successfully enter the EU market. For example, this seems to apply […]
