Sports Analytics
Sports analytics is the use of data to inform decisions in sport: recruitment, tactics, training load, injury risk and commercial pricing.
Why It Matters
Data changed how players are valued and traded, and clubs that built the capability early bought talent more cheaply than those that did not.
Related Terms
- Sports TechnologySports technology covers the systems used in competition and around it: tracking, officiating, broadcast production, performance monitoring and fan products.
- Sports BusinessSports business is the commercial side of sport: clubs, leagues and events, and the media rights, sponsorship, ticketing and merchandising that fund them.
- Machine LearningMachine learning is the branch of artificial intelligence in which a system learns patterns from data rather than following rules written by hand, and improves as it is given more examples.
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