This Friday, fans of ELEAGUE will get an inside look at the moves esports players use to excel at their game — literally. The esports brand run by Turner Sports and IMG is incorporating a number of emerging technologies to provide fans, broadcasters and the players themselves deeper insight into the workings of esports. ELEAGUE […]
It’s a bit of an understatement to say professional sports teams have a lot of data to manage. Without the right system to house the data, teams fall behind in terms of connecting the analytical dots. SSB works with sports leagues and franchises to create a so-called data warehouse, making numbers usable from an analytics […]
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — On a hazy August day at The Glen, a racetrack in northern New York not far from the Finger Lakes where NASCAR hosts one of its regular-season races, a tractor trailer buzzes alive with energy on a patch of grass. The 53-foot custom-built Featherlite trailer is among the auto association’s most […]
EuroLeague has announced a new partnership to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for the 2017-18 season to create unique video content for TV broadcasters and for social media distribution. The deal between the EuroLeague and Heed will see sensors placed in all 16 basketball arenas for this coming season, and the IoT technology will collect […]
Collingwood Football Club of the Australian Football League has started using Pure Storage’s FlashArray//M system in a VMware vSphere environment, giving it a data platform to analyze a variety of player performance-based information in real-time. Using on-field sensors, the club monitors kicks, marks, handballs and scoring sources for each team on the field. After matches, […]
