NBL’s Guy Neville: “We’re past the time of where we thought of ourselves as just a national sporting league”
Thursday, 26 July 2018
The National Basketball League has just come off its 40th season and there is a fresh and vibrant feeling surrounding the league which has been built from an internal entrepreneurial spirit, especially one that is eyeing off being one of the most important basketball league’s in the world. The league’s footprint is expanding into key
In Conversation with Box Altitude Founder Rico Rogers
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
A former professional cyclist, Box Altitude founder Rico Rogers has brought his athletic experience and studies into designing and developing altitude training products to help improve performance in elite sports, yet going beyond athletic performance Rogers believes that altitude training and sleeping can improve anyone’s quality of life. His company has developed a range of
- Published in Feature, Interview, Technology
Gameface.ai: Changing the Game in Video Analytics
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Emerging video analytics company Gameface.ai wants machines to understand sports. A radical notion when we’re used to the idea of players sitting in small rooms and theatres sifting and scrubbing through video content to plan match ups and tactics. Gameface.ai has set the mission of changing that. The company has developed video analysis powered by artificial
- Published in Technology
Empirics Aims to Bring Their Data Integration Expertise into Sports
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Bringing a financial and consumer data approach to sport is Australian data and analytics company Empirics. What the company discovered was the data solutions they delivered within their current industry verticals – super, retail and finance – could solve the mass of data sources that elite sporting clubs gather. It could be their fan engagement
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Find a Player Makes Delivery and Access to Sports Real Easy
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
It’s a simple enough proposition, sports games have got to be easy to organise and find players for. Yet the problem is rather multifaceted when you have to communicate with friends and fellow players across different channels, find locations or venues then coordinate who is playing and who has paid. Developed in Scotland, Find a Player is
- Published in Interview, Mobile, Technology
StanceBeam: The Personalised Coach at the End of Your Cricket Bat
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Whether it’s a dusty pitch that makes it difficult to defend against spin bowling or a firmer, faster pitch that begins to crack, different conditions change the way a batsman plays and approaches different bowlers. Bangalore based company QuickLogi Technologies has developed a product called StanceBeam, a small sensor device that fits onto the end
- Published in Interview, Technology
Democratising Sports Content with LIGR Systems
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
LIGR Graphics recently spoke at the Sports Analytics World Series Conference in the Netherlands (2018 Netherlands Sports Analytics Conference) and is a part of the new wave of production companies that is helping to make sports production automated and simpler. The company has developed a central cloud where sporting organisations source and develop automated in-game graphics and data
- Published in Interview, Technology