NEW YORK — When Kevin Harvick first wore a Polar heart-rate monitor during a NASACR race a few years ago, he sent the data back to the company for help with the analysis. Their response: “Wow, this wasn’t really what we were expecting.” Few outside the sport understood the driver’s physical strain during a long […]
This week’s guest on the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein is Dr. Phil Wagner, CEO of Sparta Science. Dr. Wagner and Bram discuss measuring athlete performance and potential with biometric data, wearables and data privacy and ownership issues, and injury prevention. You can also subscribe to the SportTechie podcast by visiting, TuneIn, iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher. Contact us if […]
Track My Roll is an app designed to help bowlers track how, and how fast, the ball rolls down the lane. Using the built-in camera on any iPhone or Android device, the app allows bowlers to map the direction and speed their balls take — a potentially effective tool in knowing how to orient themselves […]
LaLiga and Perform Group, a digital sports content and media group, have joined forces with a five-year partnership to create LaLiga Official Data Centre that will be responsible for providing all official LaLiga match data across multiple sectors and channels. Using Perform’s sports data collection, distribution and commercialization skills in the media, professional analysis and […]
Zebra Technologies and Wilson Sporting Goods announced Thursday that every NFL game football this season would have an embedded RFID tag to track location, speed and rotation metrics. Though some data points will be exclusive to teams, other statistics will be included in television broadcasts and potentially tabulated in NFL.com leaderboards. This technology debuted at […]