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How is this recorded; and so accurately?
by dsfuoi 10y ago
How is this recorded; and so accurately?
- egjerlow 10y agoSeems the NBA have upped their data collection game recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_tracking_(National_Basketball_Association) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_tracking_(National_Bask...
- chrisan 10y agoStill that is only for recent games > It began use in the NBA at the start of the 2013–14 season, and it is now in use in all 30 arenas, following trials during the previous season in 15 arenas.[ Which I guess means before that they had some guy who just recorded shots on a board. Would be interesting to see how it was collected prior to this technology
- eropple 10y agoIt was collected by interns and other cheap help, and it still is by everybody except STATS (who owns SportVU).
- SoapSeller 10y agoManually. Companies like Stats(that also now running the optical tracking in the nba) has rooms full of people watching videos of games and tagging events.
- ruffrey 10y agoIn the US? That seems really tedious.
- SoapSeller 10y agoYes, they have those people in their Chicago office. (I believe they also have people in India doing this nowdays)
- Taylor_OD 10y agoI know a lot of guys that work at stats. Some of it is manual but over the last couple years they have actually build some pretty cool stuff to track all this. The company has done three rounds of massive layoffs over the last year though so who knows if advancements will continue.
- misterbwong 10y agoTedious probably. Profitable definitely.
- samfisher83 10y agoNow they have something called SportVU. It is a set of cameras that track the players around. It really cool tech. http://www.stats.com/sportvu/sportvu-basketball-media/ http://www.stats.com/sportvu/sportvu-basketball-media/
- acqq 10y agoAnd who wants to pay for this data to make this even worth doing? Who can use such statistics for anything than this or similar article?