SportTechie — Scouting RSS





Zebra Extends Player-Tracking Chips To Senior Bowl Ahead Of NFL Draft

Zebra Technologies, the company that makes the player-tracking RFID chips in NFL shoulder pads, is extending the technology to the Senior Bowl to help scouts evaluate potential draft prospects. The chips, which will be on each individual player’s equipment, will begin tracking players during practices and also during the game. NFL coaches, scouts and general […]

Continue reading



PlaySight Expands 4K Training Video, Instant Replays To Soccer

After outfitting its technology for a professional soccer team in Germany, PlaySight is expanding its suite of autonomous scouting and coaching tools across the soccer industry. At the Soccerex Global Convention last month, PlaySight co-founder and CEO Chen Shachar pitched the company’s newest cloud-based video technology, SmartField, to European football clubs as a way to […]

Continue reading



Perfect Game To Now Bring Diamond Kinetics’ Smart Bats To Baseball Scouting

Perfect Game, the world’s largest baseball scouting service, announced a partnership with Diamond Kinetics on Friday to enhance real-time scouting with smart bats and wireless motion sensors.  Under the terms of the deal, Pittsburgh-based Diamond Kinetics, which makes sensors that quantify athletic performance, will be the exclusive provider of sensor-based motion sensors to Perfect Game, adding new analytics to its […]

Continue reading