Welcome to the Vumero Sports 5-Point Play, where we select 5 interesting articles per week from the world of Sports Analytics and Technology!     Zion Williamson Is The Best College Basketball Player In At Least A Decade Ten games into what will almost certainly be his lone season in Durham, Duke’s Zion Williamson has treated college...Read More

Welcome to the Vumero Sports 5-Point Play, where we select 5 interesting articles per week from the world of Sports Analytics and Technology!     What Reddit Can Tell Us About NBA Fan Bases With more than 11 million comments made from January through October, /r/nba is the third most active subreddit, trailing only /r/AskReddit...Read More

Image Credit: Ben Solomon/Tennis Australia. By Clint Vojdinoski, Editor at Bullpen Media   As the rights holder of one of Australian sport’s most valuable properties, the Australian Open, Tennis Australia’s business has been on a significant upward growth curve. Fuelled by the Australian Open, Tennis Australia earned $337 million in revenue the last financial year, with cash reserves...Read More

By Clint Vojdinoski, Editor at Bullpen Media   Australian startup URef channelled their frustrations with the large amount of negative conversation and annoyances with referees into a platform that gives fans a centralised voice to rate a referee’s match-day performance. Their app-based platform checks the barometer of fan sentiment and emotion by asking users whether they agree with...Read More

By Clint Vojdinoski, Editor at Bullpen Media   The global accessibility of video in sport has given rise to coaches and athletes becoming connected through video and analysis. This appetite to infuse all levels of sport with technical and performance analysis has grown US performance technology business Hudl’s footprint around the world. The company’s full stack of video...Read More

By Clint Vojdinoski, Editor at Bullpen Media   Utilised by broadcasters and rights holders across the world Vizrt is a company sitting at the nexus of next-generation virtual advertising, graphics and sports analytics. Vizrt helps broadcasters and rights holders monetise their sports rights through pioneering virtual advertising technology. The company’s own image-based tracking software provides versatile and regional...Read More

Welcome to the Vumero Sports 5-Point Play, where we select 5 interesting articles per week from the world of Sports Analytics and Technology!     Big Data Is The Future Of Esports Just as it did with traditional sports, the collection, analysis and use of all kinds of data is beginning to change the way...Read More

Welcome to the Vumero Sports 5-Point Play, where we select 5 interesting articles per week from the world of Sports Analytics and Technology!     How Analytics Is Shaping the 2018 World Series and Baseball’s Future Vince Gennaro, President of the Society of American Baseball Research and Associate Dean and clinical Associate Professor of NYU’s Tisch...Read More

Image Credit: Football Federation Australia   In part one, Dr Craig Duncan talked about preparing Australia’s footballers for international duty and the relationships between performance scientists and coaches. In this part he delves into Australia’s physiological performance at the 2018 World Cup, and with an eye on the 2019 World Cup he discusses the women’s national team.   By Clint...Read More