Data in Sports.
Introduction
to Data in Sports
Sport in today’s world has extended beyond just the playing field. What was earlier two teams entering the field with textbook strategies, has today boomed into a platform with detailed analysis and pin-pointing to every detail.
An athlete or a team’s data can show us where their strengths and weaknesses lie. It tells us a player’s performance probability based on past results: How many runs has Virat Kohli scored in the death overs of knockout games?
How many penalties has Neymar missed during Champions League Games?
…and so on
Studying data helps teams prepare for the unexpected. Any change that the opposition makes before or during the game can be instantly studied by a team of analysts to see how it will impact the rest of the game.
For example: in an ODI game between India and Australia at Adelaide, the team batting order shows that Tendulkar was moved from #3 to #5.
Australia can then look at data to understand Tendulkar at the #5- ØHow he has performed …
Sport in today’s world has extended beyond just the playing field. What was earlier two teams entering the field with textbook strategies, has today boomed into a platform with detailed analysis and pin-pointing to every detail.
An athlete or a team’s data can show us where their strengths and weaknesses lie. It tells us a player’s performance probability based on past results: How many runs has Virat Kohli scored in the death overs of knockout games?
How many penalties has Neymar missed during Champions League Games?
…and so on
Studying data helps teams prepare for the unexpected. Any change that the opposition makes before or during the game can be instantly studied by a team of analysts to see how it will impact the rest of the game.
For example: in an ODI game between India and Australia at Adelaide, the team batting order shows that Tendulkar was moved from #3 to #5.
Australia can then look at data to understand Tendulkar at the #5- ØHow he has performed …
