This week on SportTechie Now, MLS becomes the next professional league to stream games on a social media platform. March means baseball is almost here, and two performance trackers made big strides this week. For more in-depth looks at these stories, read the following articles: MLS and Univision to Stream Games on Facebook Live AAU Announces […]
Australia’s National Basketball League has begun displaying graphics during live broadcasts of games that feature Catapult analytics tracking player movement and workload. In a game between the Cairns Taipans and Perth Wildcats last month, a graphic appeared on the screen that showed for each player Catapult’s PlayerLoad metric — a number that provides an objective measure […]
NFL coaches, executives and scouts evaluating draft prospects at the Senior Bowl on Saturday have access to more player performance data than ever before thanks to technology. For the first time at the Senior Bowl, players during the game will be wearing the Catapult OptimEye S5, a monitoring device that measures volume (total work done […]
Sports analytics and wearable technology company Catapult announced an exclusive three-year partnership with Australia’s National Basketball League (NBL) on Monday. The league-wide partnership will see Catapult become the league’s Official Wearable Analytics Partner. Catapult technology will be used to track players during practices and game days while NBL fans will receive live game-day data as part […]
Catapult Sports already has one of the most popular player tracking wearables on the market. The Melbourne-based company supports nineteen NFL and NBA teams, along with a number of NCAA programs and many more pro teams around the world. Now, the analytics group is set to make an even bigger splash on the world of sports, with […]
