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CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS AND SPORTS TECHNOLOGY
FC Barcelona has been crowned this 2022 as the most innovative club in the world in the Top 25 Most Innovative Teams in the World. The study, made by the American consulting firm Sports Innovation Lab , analyzes the 10 most important leagues in the world to create a ranking of the sports clubs which best fan interaction generate.
CATEGORY: FAN ENGAGEMENT & BIG DATA
Currently, market analyses about potential clients in the sports industry is highly focused on Generation Z.
CATEGORY: MEDICINE
Some athletes call it the evil injury. Anyone who follows sports competitions will understand this perfectly:: Currently, Achilles tendon rupture is an injury that, in the best case, will keep an athlete away from the field for a long period of time.
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION ANALYSIS AND SPORTS TECHNOLOGY
In the framework of the IoT Solutions World Congress, Albert Mundet, director of Barça Innovation Hub, presented last Thursday the IoTwins project. FC Barcelona collaborates in this project financed by European funds. It aims to change the model of management of high-flow infrastructures.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
After the 2016 summer Olympics, where gold-favorites USA crashed out after a penalty shootout in the quarter-finals against Sweden, the US Women’s National Team’s sporting organization vowed never to lose in this way again. Next major championship they would be prepared. They would take a scientific approach to penalty taking.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
A football team needs to have good coordination and structure to be competitive. Being a football coach means understanding your players and being capable of providing them with the tools needed to reach their best performance, either individually or as part of the team.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
A key principle in the approach to football analytics is to make sure that all data is related back to the game itself.
CATEGORY: FAN ENGAGEMENT & BIG DATA
In sports, the audience attending the stadium is key. On the one hand, it is an indicator of the club’s reputation.
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
Sports have always been linked to technology. Today, electronic sports have set another turning point.
CATEGORY: FOOTBALL
Expected goals (or xG) are the best-known metric in football analytics. They measure the quality of a chance created. When we say that a shot had an xG of 0.2 (or 20%), we mean that typically shots of this type will be scored 20% of the time.
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
The entertainment industry has evolved by leaps and bounds in the last decades. Hollywood highest grossing films count on highly realistic effects generated by computers which were thought to be impossible to create just 10 years ago.