The Chicago Bulls’ Senior Manager of Business Strategy and Analytics joins Bram to discuss his work with behavioral science and how it applies to ticket sales, in-game purchases and split-second in-game decisions on the basketball court. That and more on this episode of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein. You can subscribe to the SportTechie Podcast […]
The president of the NFL Players Association said on a panel held at the annual Consumer Electronics Show that data collected from wearables technology belongs to the athlete. Eric Winston, a 12-year offensive lineman most recently with the Cincinnati Bengals, gave the example of a running back’s 80-yard run. While the performance (i.e. the rushing […]
One of elite sport’s most prolific technologies hails from the Finnish Lakeland and a pair of research studies into the autonomic nervous system and mathematical modeling of heart-rate variability at the University of Jyväskylä and that city’s Research Institute for Olympic Sports. That work led to the creation of Firstbeat in 2002 and now, a […]
The Australian Open will feature new high-tech umpire chairs that will automatically lift the umpire up to their perch above the court with a push of a button. The mechanical chairs are set to debut on three stadium courts at Rod Laver Arena, MCA and Hisense Arena during the two-week tournament, which kicked off in […]
Catapult is continuing to bring its wearable data to live sports broadcasts with the tech company’s latest partnership with Cricket Australia on a nine-match agreement. The statistics gleaned from Catapult’s GPS devices will be presented in the sponsored Gatorade Tracker during Channel Nine coverage that began with the recently completed fifth test of the Ashes […]
