Why Clubs Are Turning to LiDAR to Support Their GPS Technology
Professional sports is a multibillion-dollar industry that demands ownership with deep pockets for investment in everything from player...
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Why LiDAR Technology Is the Future of Player Development
Next to talent evaluation, the most important organizational competency for any sports franchise is likely player development. Shrewd...
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Five Ways LiDAR Can Be Used to Assist Professional Sports Teams Sports Scientists
Sports scientists have been using motion-capture systems for quite some time in their efforts to analyze and optimize athletic...
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Why Accurate Portable Performance-Tracking Technology Is Needed in the NBA
The business of professional sports has developed into a multibillion-dollar industry, raising the stakes for all involved and creating...
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Data-Driven Scouting Takes Center Stage, But Are We Ready to Embrace Its Full Potential?
At the crux of all player scouting is data. Whether it’s measured or observed, statistical or anecdotal, data gives shape to the insights...
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How Sports Tech Evolved From a Luxury to a Necessary Investment
The single most significant development in sports over the past 100 years has been the growth of the financial incentive at all levels....
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How Sports Tech Evolved From a Luxury to a Necessary Investment
The single most significant development in sports over the past 100 years has been the growth of the financial incentive at all levels....
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How Elite Sports Organizations Can Use Force-Velocity Profiling
World-class athletes come in all shapes and sizes, and different sports require disparate skill sets that often don’t fully transfer from...
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How Personalized Movement Data Can Be Used to Develop Game Tactics
Coaches and performance practitioners are always in search of small or hidden insights to help squeeze every bit of potential from the...
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Why International Clubs Should Pay Attention to the Premier League’s Use of Movement Data
As we’ve witnessed in Qatar over the past few weeks, much of the excitement and spectacle of international football lies in its...
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Effective Use Cases of Sportlight Measurements
At the intersection of sports science and technology today are some potentially game-changing developments in athlete tracking. No longer...
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Why Contextual Athlete Effort Matters When Measuring Movement
In the same way a powerlifter follows a different training regimen than a long-distance runner, athletes everywhere are assessed and...
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How Measuring Change in Direction Can Help Mitigate Injuries
Sports science has come a long way over a short period of time in its approach and success rate around repairing and healing certain...
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What Can the Combination of Movement Analytics and Statistics Tell Us About Performance?
Sports organizations have been attempting to find more and better ways to analyze athletic performance for roughly as long as organized...
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What Can Measuring and Monitoring Change of Direction Tell Us About Performance?
Change of direction is a somewhat nebulous but almost universally valuable athletic concept that can be roughly applied across sports. In...
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Examining the Results of the Sportlight Validation Study
Comprehensive data collection and accuracy as a guiding principle are at the core of our work at Sportlight. That’s why we’re excited to...
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How Can Movement Analytics Influence In-Game Tactics?
Coaches and managers are busy. They design game plans, adjust schemes, offer input on personnel decisions, manage player personalities –...
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How Can Movement Analytics Predict NBA Player Performance?
NBA teams and analysts have used Player Efficiency Rating (PER) for many years to create a more nuanced picture of player performance,...
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Why Sports Has Shifted to Examining Measurement
Sports are like so many advanced human endeavors – they can be described, understood and improved by numbers. That was the point of the...
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Tips for a Successful Career in Sports Analytics
One of the reasons the “Ted Lasso” character Nathan is so compelling is that Nathans really do happen in sports. From the pitch to the...
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How LiDAR Is Capturing Performance in the Premier League
The basis of any analytics is the benchmark – literally. To interpret a set of data, the analyst has to establish what he or she is...
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The Challenge of Integrating New Data and Collection Tech with Historic Data
By: Raf Keustermans Anytime new technologies or systems become too valuable or ubiquitous not to integrate for businesses across an...
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The Advanced Statistics Every Pro Basketball Team Should Measure
In the early 2000s, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane brought “Moneyball” to Major League Baseball – and, soon after, the...
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Road to the NBA Playoffs: Data Points Teams Should Monitor
In the NBA, it’s not just a marketing cliche: the playoffs are a new season. Efforts are redoubled, coaches get more time to scout an...
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Are Your Load Management Practices Optimized for Your Team?
Load management, a phrase first coined to describe the balancing of an electrical supply on a network, has since gone mainstream. In...
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How to Treat Your Team’s Data Fatigue
The data revolution in sports hasn’t just arrived. It has been here. By now, it practically has its own parking spot and VIP box at the...
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LiDAR Technology: It’s Not Just for the Biggest Professional Clubs
The notion of sports as the great meritocracy is a fine one in theory. But whoever conceived the idea never heard of Manchester United or...
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The Sports Analytics Market Is Growing – What It Means for the NBA
True technological breakthroughs are rare in sports. What’s more, when they do occur, they tend not to burst through the tape at the...
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Top Data Points Performance Managers Need to Monitor
Collecting and managing player performance data across sports has never been easier than it is today. With advantages like modern...
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What Managers Can Learn from Tech Entrepreneurs
Whether you’re browsing the pages of Fast Company or FourFourTwo, it’s unlikely that you’ll find many comparisons of Jürgen Klopp to Elon...
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What Managers and Coaches Want to Know About LiDAR
Pressure to win at the highest levels of professional sports can be smothering and all-consuming. Managers and coaches, knowing how few...
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Are Lasers Set to Disrupt the Field of Sports Science?
The tech revolution in sports, in case you weren’t aware, is already well underway. From the performance technology and broadcast...
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Why Cameras, GPS and RF Aren’t Enough to Accurately Measure Sports Performance
Technology has proven again and again its potential to affect and improve the sports industry and the games themselves, often by leaps...
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LiDAR and Talent Management: What Premier League Coaches Need to Know
As LiDAR technology gradually penetrates the Premier League, along with other major sports organizations not known for their warm embrace...
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How LiDAR Data Can Help with Injury Prevention
For many years, franchise success at the highest levels of sports sprang from the seeds of the talent evaluation department. The science...
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Data Blind Spots: What Top Teams and Performance Managers Are Missing
Perhaps the most important development in professional sports so far this century has been the industry’s embrace of data. After finally...
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How LIDAR Technology Can Enhance Sports Analytics
In “Moneyball,” the 2003 book authored by Michael Lewis and its 2011 film adaptation, a central tension drives the narrative – and has...
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Wearables Versus LiDAR: Where Does the Future Lie?
Sports technology advances in fits and starts. In a space that traditionally has been conservative in its adoption of (and investment in)...
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