Football has long had an odd relationship with the United States – and vice versa. While other sports were capturing the hearts and minds...

The concept of advanced analytics is a relatively young one. Bill James, one of its earliest pioneers, began publishing his annual (and...

In September, Matt Howley was hired to be Sportlight Technology’s first Director of U.S. Sports. Previously the Director of Sports...

Sports practitioners, coaches and executives have been using information that can loosely be described as data in their everyday...

For all the changes competitive sports have undergone over time – from the ever-expanding skills of the athletes to the exploding...

For anyone who has spent even a little time around competitive sports, there are a handful of phrases that should ring familiar....

With the English Premier League season underway, 20 member clubs can only hope that all their personnel moves, offseason training and...

Nikolay Falaleev, Sportlight’s head of artificial intelligence since 2020, leads AI initiatives that deliver on-field information for our...

The business of professional sports has developed into a multibillion-dollar industry, raising the stakes for all involved and creating...

In NASCAR, American stock car racing’s elite circuit, the competition cars on the track look quite similar to Chevrolets, Fords and...

The nature of performance training demands a level of repetition that borders on monotony. Practitioners put athletes through their...

Thomas Dos’Santos is a senior lecturer in strength and conditioning & sports biomechanics at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well...

Professional sports is a multibillion-dollar industry that demands ownership with deep pockets for investment in everything from player...

Next to talent evaluation, the most important organizational competency for any sports franchise is likely player development. Shrewd...

Sports scientists have been using motion-capture systems for quite some time in their efforts to analyze and optimize athletic...

The business of professional sports has developed into a multibillion-dollar industry, raising the stakes for all involved and creating...

At the crux of all player scouting is data. Whether it’s measured or observed, statistical or anecdotal, data gives shape to the insights...

The single most significant development in sports over the past 100 years has been the growth of the financial incentive at all levels....

The single most significant development in sports over the past 100 years has been the growth of the financial incentive at all levels....

John Grace, performance coach interim director of performance for Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire, has been a performance coach with...

Throughout Europe, local football clubs have embraced unconventional methods in their efforts to rise from second-tier status and...

Sports franchises and programs have been relying on the experience and expertise of performance evaluators for as long as competitive...

When making determinations based on new research or data collection, there are few (if any) fields of scientific or empirical study that...

Chris Difford, the former first team physical performance coach for the women’s Everton Football Club and former head of performance at...