Major League Baseball has announced that its revered Statcast system will now generate Hit Probability and Catch Probability ratings for batted balls this season. MLB plans to incorporate new Catch and Hit Probability metrics into its BaseballSavant.com searchable database, and to feature the content on MLB Network and MLB gameday broadcasts. New Hit and Catch […]
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has announced a new partnership with 3D sensor and analytics company Blast Motion. The company will become the official swing sensor of AAU baseball, potentially opening the door for big data in youth sports. AAU’s new partnership follows suit with with Major League Baseball, as the MLB announced Blast Motion as its official […]
Early-stage basketball analytics and data company Noah Basketball won the startup competition and $5,000 at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last week in Boston as it pitched investors, potential customers and business partners. It’s currently working with five NBA teams including the Miami Heat, Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles […]
BOSTON — Those at the 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this past weekend who didn’t know who Rajiv Maheswaran and Second Spectrum were surely do now. The CEO of data company Second Spectrum, which was recently named the NBA’s new optical tracking partner starting next season, began his panel discussion titled Panel Tracking Data and the Fan by […]
BOSTON — NBA commissioner Adam Silver along with Nate Silver of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight held a one-on-one discussion Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference where they chatted — among many topics — about why analytics is woven into the fabric of the NBA arguably more than other U.S. professional sports leagues right now. Silver first […]
