How AI is opening the playbook on sports analytics

How AI is opening the playbook on sports analytics

Professional sports teams pour millions of dollars into data analytics, using advanced tracking systems to study every sprint, pass, and decision on the field. The results of that analysis, however, are industry secrets, making many sports difficult for researchers to study.

U of W researchers using AI to open the playbook on sports analytics

A new project out of the University of Waterloo is giving researchers unprecedented access to high-quality sports tracking data by simulating thousands of realistic soccer matches using advanced AI tools.