STATS, LLC has announced its newest acquisition, Prozone, a frontrunner in sports performance analytics and athlete tracking. Prozone has a large global presence (it currently spans four continents), enabling STATS to expand its own sports coverage geographically in addition to adding other technologies to its repertoire.
STATS has acquired three companies in as much as two months – Prozone, Automated Insights and Sports Network. This latest deal is monumental, as Prozone keeps a database of over 100,000 players, and is able to capture proprietary data from more than 12,000 sporting events each year.
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The information Prozone receives from tracking and analyzing each athlete’s performance will allow coaches and upper management to make more informed decisions about player development and acquisition. When teams couple that with the software’s ability to combine data analytics and video tracking to generate post-match analysis, trend analyses, and opposition scouting reports, they definitely gain a competitive advantage.
“We are excited to combine Prozone’s best-in-market analytics products for football (soccer) and rugby with STATS’ media expertise and unrivaled real-time data,” said Gary Walrath, CEO of STATS. “We look forward to bringing Prozone’s strong product suite to all corners of the globe.”
STATS has been acquiring sports technology companies for several years. Last month, we described the evolution of STATS, LLC, and discussed in more detail the history of their acquisitions. All of these very significant deals have established STATS as a prominent sports data and statistics organization.
“Our knowledge and experience in performance analysis for football (soccer), rugby, hockey, and handball is a fantastic complement to STATS’ expertise in NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, college football, college basketball, and soccer,” said Thomas Schmider, CEO of Prozone. “Together through our combined global sales network, we can deliver complementary products to a broader range of customers all over the world.”