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.