2016 connect events sport analytics
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© 2016 IBM Corporation
IBM GBS Analytical Solution
Sports 2016Nitay Alon, Matan Mashiah, GBS Analytics Team
IBM BusinessConnectA new era of thinking
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Nitay Alon - Chief Data Scientist
Matan Mashiah - Big Data Specialist & Business Analyst
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Motivation for Sport Analytics
The Match: Real Madrid vs. Man. CityChampions League semi final 2nd leg
The Problem: Karim Benzema’s injury, can he play in the match?
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Play?No
YesInjured?
Yes
NoReplacement?
Jese Vazquez
Jese Vazquez
The Decision Tree
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The Problem – 𝑇𝑀𝐷$ (Too Much Data, Too Many Decisions)
Variables to consider
The Value of the player The cost of injury
Replacement?The Value Of replacement
Other…
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Performance, Measured in every match
Making tough decisions
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Our Solution
Improving The Team’s Asset Management
•Team performance acceleration (players performance, squad formation, competitive advantages)
•Injury mitigation and reduction of idle time
•Hidden assets discovery (i.e. discovering great players that until now were under-rated, by using advanced clustering algorithms and finding similar players)
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Holistic View
Acquisitions
Formation
Injuries
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Our Solution
HolisticSolution
Injury Mitigation
TeamPerformance
HiddenAssets
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Our Solution
Data Source: Structured/Unstructured, Internal/External
Analytical Layer: Supervised and Unsupervised, Text analytics
Insights:Real time Analytics
Advanced competitive intelligence
Team Formation Analytics
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Data SourcesWearable Devices
Historical Match data
Video Analytics
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Data Sources
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Watson Crawler:Crawl on websites in order to extract relevant unstructured information and get insights from it:-Players status-Potential squads
From Unstructured data To insights
Advanced Competitive Intelligence
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Advanced Competitive Intelligence
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Team Formation Analytics
Team Formation:Use clustering algorithms in order to prioritize possible team formations as a response to the rival’s formation.
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Find similar players using Unsupervised algorithms:
Team Formation Analytics
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Find similar players using Unsupervised algorithms:
Team Formation Analytics
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Team Formation Analytics
We’ve posted some of our insights on the web…
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Team Formation Analytics
And got positive feedbacks!
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Visualizing the data – the cognitive way!
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Visualizing the data – the cognitive way!
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Our Vision
“Cognitive Couch Assistance”
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Our Vision
Other Sports
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Thank you for your time!Nitay Alon Matan [email protected] [email protected]