SportTechie · Jul 8, 2015
How Tracking Basketball Players Can Help Society Move Forward
An image from Rajiv Maheswaran's TED Talk: The math behind basketball's wildest movesTracking athletes to generate actionable data and then translating that data into digestible visualizations for coaches and players has become one of the most important technological developments to ever impact sports.
Player tracking has made its largest impact in the NBA where the league has made it a point to track every single player and ball movement for every game with every team in all 29 NBA arenas.