Harnessing Tech to Create Bespoke Training Programs for Athletes With Injury Histories
In the sports performance industry, technology usually has one of two purposes: 1) athlete performance optimization or 2) athlete...
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Cross-Sport Integration: Why LiDAR Has the Potential to Benefit More Sports in the Future
The common law of business balance project-management model has become virtually ubiquitous, across industries as diverse as advertising...
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How Advanced Performance-Tracking Technology Transfers From Football to Hockey
Performance-tracking technology has been used across nearly every sport, at practically every level, for some time now. Devices can be as...
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How Advanced Performance-Tracking Technology Transfers From Football to Hockey
Performance-tracking technology has been used across nearly every sport, at practically every level, for some time now. Devices can be as...
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Cross-Sport Integration: Why LiDAR Has the Potential to Benefit More Sports in the Future
The common law of business balance project-management model has become virtually ubiquitous, across industries as diverse as advertising...
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Harnessing Tech to Create Bespoke Training Programs for Athletes With Injury Histories
In the sports performance industry, technology usually has one of two purposes: 1) athlete performance optimization or 2) athlete...
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Why LiDAR Is the Future of Data Capture in U.S. Sports
Legacy performance-tracking systems typically rely on one of three different types of technology: radio frequency, GPS or cameras. Each...
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LiDAR Development: A Difference Maker for U.S. Sports
Although some previous iterations of LiDAR-based performance-tracking systems were somewhat unwieldy, lacked ideal range and were...
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Elevating Talent Development: The Impact of Harnessing Training Movement Data
For any sports organization seeking to better understand the capabilities and limitations of its athletes, consistent performance...
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Unlocking Player Performance Insights With League-Specific KPI Benchmarking
Within the context of world-class and professional sports, the tiniest variance can make all the difference. Consider the Premier League,...
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Why Deeper Movement Insights Are Critical for Optimal Load Management
Across the landscape of elite competitive sports, athlete performance insights have become valuable currency. As performance-tracking...
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The Role of Performance Technology in the Rise of U.S. Soccer
Football has long had an odd relationship with the United States – and vice versa. While other sports were capturing the hearts and minds...
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Turning Advanced Analytics Into Digestible Data
The concept of advanced analytics is a relatively young one. Bill James, one of its earliest pioneers, began publishing his annual (and...
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Unlocking the Future of Scouting: Harnessing Physical Data With Cutting-Edge Tools
Sports practitioners, coaches and executives have been using information that can loosely be described as data in their everyday...
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How Tech Is Optimizing Return-to-Play Programs in the Premier League
For all the changes competitive sports have undergone over time – from the ever-expanding skills of the athletes to the exploding...
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How Analyzing Peak Demand Can Optimize Training Design
For anyone who has spent even a little time around competitive sports, there are a handful of phrases that should ring familiar....
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The New Ways Premier League Clubs Can Leverage LiDAR Tech
With the English Premier League season underway, 20 member clubs can only hope that all their personnel moves, offseason training and...
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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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The Importance of Managing an Athlete’s Maximum Speed Capacity to Minimize Injury
In NASCAR, American stock car racing’s elite circuit, the competition cars on the track look quite similar to Chevrolets, Fords and...
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How Identifying Fatigue Can Unlock Peak Performance in Athletes
The nature of performance training demands a level of repetition that borders on monotony. Practitioners put athletes through their...
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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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