In a new investment round, UT- spin-off SciSports has raised an extra 1.8 million euros with existing and new investors.
The new investment will be used to roll-out the SciSkill Index worldwide and implement the BallJames data machine in various stadiums in countries such as England and Germany. In the last few years, SciSports has worked on building the SciSkill Index, a fully automated solution that calculates the quality, talent, and value of every professional football player in the world. With the in-house developed capturing reality technology called BallJames, which generates complete 3D data in real-time, we created a refined total solution that immediately converts events in practice or during the match to useful information and knowledge.
SciSkill Index
The SciSkill Index is the only objective worldwide player index that makes it possible to compare the quality of football players all around the world. Every week, over 2000 matches in 210 leagues are analyzed by the SciSkill algorithm, through which the SciSkill Index automatically adjusts the quality of 350.000 football players in an index. The index measures the influence of a player on a match and the individual development. With this, it calculates the market value and the potential of a player, based on his current quality and the growth of other players in the past. The SciSkill is not only interesting for clubs, as it also beats the bookmakers in predicting matches and is the ideal input for Fantasy Football games.
BallJames
BallJames is a real-time tracking technology developed by SciSports that automatically generates 3D data from video images of football matches. In the stadium, fourteen cameras are installed, which record all the movements on the field. BallJames then generates its own data such as the precision, direction and speed of the passing, sprinting strength, jumping strength, player movements and how close the ball stays to the foot after a first touch. The Polman Stadium of Heracles Almelo is the first stadium in the world equipped with this system. At the moment, a second stadium in England is being equipped with the first official Beta version of Balljames and in collaboration with the University of Twente, a test field will be set up for academic research.
