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Sportlight Conversations: Ben Taverner
Ben Taverner recently joined Sportlight as Chief Commercial Officer. Previously Head of Commercial at Serie A Juventus Football Club, Ben...
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Sportlight Conversations: Matt Cook
Matt Cook is a respected sports scientist and strength & conditioning coach who currently serves as director of physical performance,...
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How Elite Sports Organizations Can Use Force-Velocity Profiling
World-class athletes come in all shapes and sizes, and different sports require disparate skill sets that often don’t fully transfer from...
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How Personalized Movement Data Can Be Used to Develop Game Tactics
Coaches and performance practitioners are always in search of small or hidden insights to help squeeze every bit of potential from the...
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Sportlight Conversations – Scott Guyett Q&A
Scott Guyett, a native Australian who played 15 years of professional football in England, is now the first team coach at Brisbane Roar...
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Sportlight Conversations: Tim Blackmore Q&A
Dr Tim Blackmore, who joined Sportlight as the company’s first Head of Data Science in September 2022, is a U.K.-based data scientist...
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Why International Clubs Should Pay Attention to the Premier League’s Use of Movement Data
As we’ve witnessed in Qatar over the past few weeks, much of the excitement and spectacle of international football lies in its...
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Sportlight Conversations: Vanni Di Febo
Vanni Di Febo is a seasoned data scientist and Sportlight alumnus who now serves as a football data analyst for the Italian Football...
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Sportlight Conversations: Callum Walsh
Callum Walsh is a high performance practitioner who is currently completing his doctorate from Leeds Beckett University and who is the...
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Sportlight Conversations: Richard Clarke
Richard Clarke is the lead strength and conditioning coach for the Bristol Flyers basketball club (British Basketball League), an S&C...
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Effective Use Cases of Sportlight Measurements
At the intersection of sports science and technology today are some potentially game-changing developments in athlete tracking. No longer...
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Why Contextual Athlete Effort Matters When Measuring Movement
In the same way a powerlifter follows a different training regimen than a long-distance runner, athletes everywhere are assessed and...
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How Measuring Change in Direction Can Help Mitigate Injuries
Sports science has come a long way over a short period of time in its approach and success rate around repairing and healing certain...
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Sportlight Conversations: Carmen Colomer
Carmen Colomer, head of performance for the Perth Glory Football Club and former director of sports science for the Philadelphia 76ers,...
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What Can the Combination of Movement Analytics and Statistics Tell Us About Performance?
Sports organizations have been attempting to find more and better ways to analyze athletic performance for roughly as long as organized...
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Sportlight – Dr. Paul Caldbeck Q&A
Sportlight Conversations: Dr. Paul Caldbeck Dr. Paul Caldbeck, who has directed the performance optimization efforts of Premier League...
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What Can Measuring and Monitoring Change of Direction Tell Us About Performance?
Change of direction is a somewhat nebulous but almost universally valuable athletic concept that can be roughly applied across sports. In...
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Examining the Results of the Sportlight Validation Study
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...
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How Can Movement Analytics Influence In-Game Tactics?
Coaches and managers are busy. They design game plans, adjust schemes, offer input on personnel decisions, manage player personalities –...
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How Can Movement Analytics Predict NBA Player Performance?
NBA teams and analysts have used Player Efficiency Rating (PER) for many years to create a more nuanced picture of player performance,...
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Why Sports Has Shifted to Examining Measurement
Sports are like so many advanced human endeavors – they can be described, understood and improved by numbers. That was the point of the...
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Tips for a Successful Career in Sports Analytics
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...
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How LiDAR Is Capturing Performance in the Premier League
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...
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The Challenge of Integrating New Data and Collection Tech with Historic Data
By: Raf Keustermans Anytime new technologies or systems become too valuable or ubiquitous not to integrate for businesses across an...
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