Coaches and performance practitioners are always in search of small or hidden insights to help squeeze every bit of potential from the...

As we’ve witnessed in Qatar over the past few weeks, much of the excitement and spectacle of international football lies in its...

At the intersection of sports science and technology today are some potentially game-changing developments in athlete tracking. No longer...

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Sports science has come a long way over a short period of time in its approach and success rate around repairing and healing certain...

Sports organizations have been attempting to find more and better ways to analyze athletic performance for roughly as long as organized...

Change of direction is a somewhat nebulous but almost universally valuable athletic concept that can be roughly applied across sports. In...

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...

Coaches and managers are busy. They design game plans, adjust schemes, offer input on personnel decisions, manage player personalities –...

NBA teams and analysts have used Player Efficiency Rating (PER) for many years to create a more nuanced picture of player performance,...

Sports are like so many advanced human endeavors – they can be described, understood and improved by numbers. That was the point of the...

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...

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...

By: Raf Keustermans Anytime new technologies or systems become too valuable or ubiquitous not to integrate for businesses across an...

In the early 2000s, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane brought “Moneyball” to Major League Baseball – and, soon after, the...

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...

Load management, a phrase first coined to describe the balancing of an electrical supply on a network, has since gone mainstream. In...

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...

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...

True technological breakthroughs are rare in sports. What’s more, when they do occur, they tend not to burst through the tape at the...