The Secret Behind Football’s Most Successful Academies
Instead of relying on intuition and guesswork, progressive clubs have adopted an approach that allows players to progress from academy to first team in a strategic and calculated way using data analytics.
How You Can Help Reshape the Culture Around Concussions
Momentarily stunned and disoriented. That’s what I remember after getting knocked out when playing professional rugby for the Leicester Tigers. That incident happened over ten years ago, and at the time, I felt great pressure—not from the club, but from myself personally—to play the following week in a high-stakes game. But what I didn’t understand […]
Female Athletes and Concussions: Why is it Still So Under-Researched?
Historically, sport injury research has been biased towards men. In fact, the NIH wasn’t even legally required to include women and minorities in clinical research until 1993!
Athleticism and Sport-Specific Skill: A Look at the Whole Athlete
Major League Baseball teams are using every piece of information at their disposal to gain insight into the future value of a player.
Concussion Awareness is the First Step Towards Safer Sport
Today is National Concussion Awareness Day in the U.S., which calls attention to the importance of recognizing and treating concussions and offers support and resources to those suffering from these traumas. Unfortunately, concussions have become a global healthcare epidemic. Recent headlines and research show the trend in traumatic brain injuries rising. In elite English rugby, […]
Combiner la force de l’analyse de données avec l’intuition des entraîneurs et des scouts de football
L’analyse de données complète l’expérience durement acquise par les scouts chevronnés en aidant les clubs à obtenir une évaluation plus précise des joueurs pendant le processus de recrutement, non seulement pour détecter les talents au plus grand potentiel (et les plus compatibles), mais aussi pour identifier les joueurs sous-cotés qui peuvent être vendus ultérieurement à un prix conséquent.
NBA INSIGHTS: USING DATA TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE
Kitman Labs works with a number of basketball teams at the professional and collegiate level. In this article we summarise some of our latest findings, focusing on 2 areas: 1. The assessment and enhancement of performance, and 2. The assessment and mitigation of injury risk. MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE What do we mean by performance?. In […]
