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AI执裁渐成常态，人类裁判仍掌大局Engineering-虎嗅网
2024年7月14日，2024年欧洲杯锦标赛冠军赛如期举行，比赛将决出欧洲最佳国家足球队。在比赛只剩下不到五分钟时，西班牙队和英格兰队比分为1比1平，此时西班牙球员Mikel Oyarzabal在禁区顶端扑球，踢进了看似制胜的一球[1]。然而，在这次进攻中，Oyarzabal的位置接近越位，或者说离球门太远。越位判罚向来难以判断——进攻球员的头部、身体或脚部不能在球和倒数第二名防守球员之前[2]。为了确保判罚准确，场上的主裁判本可以向视频助理裁判（VAR，图1）寻求帮助。VAR实际上是一组负责监控比赛多路视频画面的官员[3]。 图1美国职业足球大联盟比赛中，裁判正在观看视频回放。图片来源：SounderBruce/Wikimedia（CA BY-SA 4.0）。...
SportsPro AI London 2024: Stats Perform’s Keynote and Recap
Over the past couple of days, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the SportsPro AI conference, held at the iconic London Stadium—previously the venue for the 2012 Olympics and now home to West Ham United. The event attracted over 400+ attendees from across the sports ecosystem, including industry leaders like ourselves at Stats Perform, major tech companies (NVIDIA, IBM, Adobe, OpenAI, Microsoft), leagues/federations and some intriguing start-ups.
PAOK FC Become First Greek Club to Access AI-Powered Opta Vision
PAOK FC are the latest in a rapidly growing line of football clubs to turn to our Opta Vision data to help secure a competitive advantage over its domestic and continental rivals. The 2023-24 Super League Greece champions have agreed a three-year deal to become the first club in Greece to utilise the pioneering dataset, which is delivering new and critical insights to enhance recruitment profiling and performance analysis processes around world football.
ProSummit Ecuador - Leagues Insights Report
Provide a few details to get acces to our exclusive leagues insights report featuring in-depth player and team stats collected and analysed by Opta. Learn about our global products, data collection methods, and case studies of our work with leagues around the world. If you have any questions and want additional information, speak to Matias Conde and Matias Cooper at the event.
Stats Perform to Showcase Pro Solutions At Tournoi Maurice Revello and Sud Ladies Cup
This summer will see the fiftieth staging of one of professional football’s most prestigious men’s international youth tournaments: Tournoi Maurice Revello. Held annually in the Provence region of France, the tournament enjoys a long-standing reputation for providing a platform for some of the world’s leading players to showcase their talent during the early stages of their career.
Football Analytics Course, Delivered With Birkbeck University, To Start Later This Month
This year we have once again partnered with Birkbeck, University of London, to deliver a nine-week football analytics module as part of the university’s Sport Management and Business of Football MSc. Delivered online, the football analytics module features weekly lectures delivered by experienced industry professionals, who each possess specialist areas of expertise and first-hand experience of implementing data and analytical processes within the professional football industry.
U.S. & Canada Media: Get Ready to Capture the Copa America Excitement
Copa América, the world’s oldest national tournament, boasts a storied legacy with soccer legends like Alfredo Di Stéfano, Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi gracing its fields. Held across the U.S. in June 2024, the tournament serves not only as a celebration of football excellence but as another catalyst for the rapid growth of soccer in the United States.
Helping the Stars of Tomorrow On Their Journey Towards The First Team
Jens Melvang, Senior Product Manager at Stats Perform, has contributed an article to the latest issue of FC Business magazine. In his article, he considers how tools like the newly released Opta Pro Hub can help a club identify emerging players and then manage their ongoing development through every age group. From the moment an emerging player is first identified, their journey through the academy and into senior football is accompanied by an ever-increasing level of detailed performance data.
Pro Research Presentations Announced for 2024 Opta Forum
Following last week’s submission deadline for the second stage of the 2024 Opta Forum research competition, four projects have been nominated for showcasing on stage, with a further five recommended for poster presentations. Each proposal submitted was judged based on four key criteria: innovation, methodology, relevance and application. Now the nine strongest projects will be showcased to an invited audience of industry delegates in London.
Beyond Tracking: The Opta Vision Webinar Series
In this 8-part webinar series, we’ll be exploring how Opta Vision, our enriched data set for football, is shifting what can be done with traditional data sets. There will be 8 sessions covering:
GPT-4: Does this Change Anything for Sport?
In November 2022, the artificial intelligence research lab, Open AI, released its uber-popular ChatGPT AI application, which took the world by storm. The technology which drives the ChatGPT technology is the large language model (LLM) called GPT-3 (or more accurately GPT-3.5 – for a description of what a LLM is and our initial take on this technology and how it relates to sport check out our two-part series here (Part 1 & Part 2).
2023 Six Nations: As told by Opta
After six action-packed weeks, the 2023 Six Nations concluded with a historic Irish Grand Slam in Dublin, their first since 2018. Throughout the tournament we saw on-field heroics from the likes of Antoine Dupont and Josh van der Flier, but off the pitch our Data Editorial team were hard at work providing comprehensive coverage and analysis across the five rounds.
Make This Your Best Women's World Cup Yet
Your download is ready. View it using the button below. VIEW The Tournament Preview pack If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Girl Power In 2022, we helped sports broadcasters and publishers cover the UEFA Women’s Euro like never before, as its popularity soared to unprecedented new heights.
Two new Opta-powered products to make sports betting more entertaining for LATAM bettors
LMG sat down with Ignacio Iturraspe at a packed Stats Perform booth at ICE London to discuss two exciting Opta data powered products that he believes are set to transform the user experience for sports bettors throughout South America. 1. What difference will the Same Game Multi Assistant make to your sportsbook? The Same Game Multi Assistant’s power is its unrivalled scale.
The Opta Forum 2023: Looking Ahead To The Day
2023 marks ten years since the first iteration of the Opta Forum, an event which has evolved over the last decade almost as much as the way we play, watch and analyse the game we’re gathering to talk about. The event first came about as the Opta Sports Pro Analytics Forum in 2014 with the goal of bringing together the best minds in Football Analytics together in one room.
Corey Roberts' four takeaways from the FSGA Conference and what it will mean for innovation in 2023
The FSGA Winter Conference returned for its 2023 edition in Vegas on 16th February, with Stats Perform’s presence marked by fantasy and sports data expert Corey Roberts in attendance. You can connect with Corey on LinkedIn to discuss any potential interest in our products. We sat down with Corey to examine the growth opportunities for the incredibly exciting, diverse fantasy sports industry.
On Moneyball, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models: Dr. Lucey Recaps the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2023
Since 2011, I have been attending the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston (including the 2021 remote edition) and have always enjoyed attending, mostly catching up with friends in the industry but also hearing and discussing (and sometimes presenting) new innovations in the sports analytics space. This year was no different, with many entertaining panels, interesting talks and research papers.
Stats Perform Shortlisted for the FEVO Sports Industry Awards 2023
Stats Perform have been shortlisted for the Tech Innovation Award at the FEVO Sports Industry Awards 2023. The Tech Innovation Award in association with PT Sportsuite celebrates organisations breaking barriers through progressive thought, invention, innovation or new technologies in their areas of the sports industry. In 2022, Stats Perform delivered a new series of AI powered predictive metrics which were used by major broadcasters including Canal+ and Amazon Prime.
The Future of Sports Coverage: Part 2
For part one please see our story here. What can the Language Models and Transformers behind ChatGPT do in sport? Beyond chatbots, is there a place for language models and Generative Artificial Intelligence in sport? The answer is a resounding yes, and in our opinion is the next revolution in sports analytics, to provide deeper than ever understanding of the game to teams and fans, especially in soccer. To start, we have to specify the language of sport.
Stats Perform’s Chief Scientist on ChatGPT’s Role in the Future of Sports Coverage: Part 1
OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched towards the end of 2022. The ‘conversational chatbot,’ trained on an enormous amount of the internet’s text, quickly accumulated millions of users keen to experience a new breakthrough in the day-to-day utilization of AI technologies. But is ChatGPT relevant to sport? Does it complement or compete with Stats Perform’s own machine learning models, trained on our own enormous amount of sports data?
Artificial Scarcity
How Data Caps Harm Consumers and Innovation Policy Paper June 30, 2015 Below is the executive summary for "Artificial Scarcity: How Data Caps Harm Consumers and Innovation." Read the full paper here. In this paper, we examine the growth and impact of usage-based pricing and data caps on wired and mobile broadband services in the United States.
Interactive sports analytics
Patrick Lucey explains methods to find play similarity using multi-agent trajectory data, as well as predicting fine-grain plays. September 25, 2019 This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O’Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther.
Applications of Generative AI in Sport: Q2 Update (part two)
In part two of our latest AI Trends in Sport feature, Chief Scientist Patrick Lucey outlines how Opta Vision solves a key challenge which has held back soccer analysis for the past 25 years, using a combination of computer vision and generative AI. If you missed part one last week, you can find it here. The key challenge of capturing player location and movement data from video in soccer is that remote video doesn’t provide a uniform perspective of the match.
Amtrak train derailment, Positive Train Control, and wireless spectrum policy.
Amtrak’s insistence on using expensive, exclusive-use spectrum reflected a traditional and ultimately unsustainable approach to spectrum policy. Since the government began issuing spectrum licenses to particular companies in the 1920s, representatives from each new industry would come, hat in hand, to the FCC to request its own special purpose spectrum allocation.
Applications of Generative AI in Sport: Q2 Update (Part One)
We are back with the latest instalment of our Latest Trends in AI in Sport series, written by our Chief Scientist Patrick Lucey. In part one, he considers the latest game-changing insights available from player tracking data, made possible by a combination of computer vision and generative AI. The pace of innovation in the field of AI shows no signs of abating – first with OpenAI’s release of GPT-4o and then Google’s annual I/O conference this week.
FCC smacks down Marriott on Wi-Fi blocking.
What’s notable about the debate spurred by Marriott’s petition is the near-total lack of debate among groups who usually oppose each other. The unlikely allies who rushed to protect the public’s right to Wi-Fi by filing comments strongly opposing the hotel industry petition included New America , small wireless providers and Internet companies , mobile carrier industry association , the cable industry association , the Consumer Electronics Association , and even Brown University.
The trickiest part of the municipal broadband initiative.
But the small city received a big boost to its national profile last week when President Barack Obama traveled there to unveil a new broadband policy initiative aimed at spurring high-speed infrastructure investment across the United States. Why did he pick Cedar Falls? Because it’s the only city in Iowa that offers gigabit speeds to consumers.
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