The National Basketball Association is a league that has utilized technology and statistics to change the way the game is understood and enjoyed. In fact, the NBA was actually the first major American sports league to invest heavily in player-tracking technology. The catwalks of every NBA arena contain six SportVU cameras to track the moves […]
Vista Equity Partners, which owns STATS LLC, has acquired Automated Insights (AI) to advance the use of AI’s natural language generation (NLG) technology throughout a wide variety of industries, some of which include business, intelligence, media, and sports. AI’s NLG platform, also known as Wordsmith, automatically creates narratives with depth and personality out of raw […]
STATS, the world’s leading sports technology, data, and content company announced its acquisition of The Sports Network today. STATS aims to revolutionize the way sporting events are viewed, understood, played, and enjoyed. They not only provide up-to-date scores, but also provide historical sports information, Associated Press editorial content, a turnkey fantasy sports operation, brand activation, […]
One of the three most important technological storylines from this 2014 NFL season is Zebra Technologies’ RFID chips. From the outset, players have had to wear two tags inside their shoulder pads, provided they were in one of the 17 launch stadiums. This player-tracking technology was most visible during the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, where […]
Nearly 42 million people participated in some version of fantasy sports in 2014, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. As many could guess, a large percentage of that comes from fantasy football. While the National Football League now embraces fantasy football (even going so far as to require teams to display fantasy numbers inside […]
