There was something strange lurking in the basement of Sam Miller’s childhood home in the 1990s. It wasn’t exactly a monster, but a weird mechanical contraption. As a visiting scientist...
BOSTON — Media and marketing executives from the WWE, Major League Baseball Advanced Media and the NBA weighed in on emerging over-the-top platforms, live streaming and reaching new international audiences at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this week. When asked about a platform that’s currently below the radar and potentially poised for growth, virtual reality along […]
BOSTON — With all of the traditional sports investments in eSports over the past 18 months, whether it’s been from current or former players, teams or new ownership groups, some eSports players are asking for arguably smarter investments. From the eSports Emergence panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this past weekend, Christina Alejandre, General […]
Defensive players across the National Football League all took a collective cringe Friday, as Saints’ coach Sean Payton offered up a training experience to aid NFL quarterbacks. Payton was speaking at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on the topic of coaching and innovations in data collection. He touched on methods his Saints use in […]
Virginia consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton is using its analytical, problem-solving approach to break into a new industry: professional sports. After collecting and compiling data for several seasons, the firm is making its debut into the sports analytics industry; revealing its predictive football play-calling prototype as a sponsor of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference […]
