NOVEMBER 20198How tech intervention and predictive analytics is trans-forming traditional sports to a scienceSports and competition have been synonymous for me, for as long as I can remember. There's nothing that can give you an adrenaline rush like a game that you love. And over the last couple of decades, the sporting land-scape has been more or less completely transformed, both, for the players, as well as people who enjoy watch-ing the action. Technology has played a massive role in this shift, especially since the internet boom, which has enabled easy information accessibility, crowned data the monarch of all commodities and provided sports metrics a new dimension to explore. Sports is no longer just fun to watch, it's almost a science: one that is de-fined and steered by data-driven innovation.Reinventing the Game: Different Metrics to TrackThe last couple of decades have seen the success met-rics of a sportsman gradually evolve. It's no longer the number of home runs you can hit, or how many goals you can score. It's a lot more. Baseball was one of the first sports to embrace the possibility of a data-driven team, backed by player statistics and customized coach-ing techniques. It gave the world a preview into what technology can offer. Predictive analytics, thus, is an im-portant driver of these success metrics! Field positions via GPS devices, player heart rates, and biometric re-quirements are just the beginning. Athletes, especially, also track distance covered vs. energy intensity in high KEEPING THE BALL ROLLINGBy Gautam Rege, Co-Founder and Director at Josh Software Pvt ltd.IN MY OPINIONDriven by passion for programming, Gautam is an ardent promoter of Ruby on Rails and he leads many of the brand initiatives to propagate framework in India Gautam Rege, Co-Founder and Director
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