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Category: Sports
Advancing Next Gen Stats: 2024 Big Data Bowl analyzes tackling performance across the NFL
If you’re a professional or aspiring amateur data scientist, the Big Data Bowl should be on your radar. This annual competition, now in its sixth year, provides an open platform for engineers, data scientists, students, and analytics enthusiasts worldwide to get involved in football analytics—whether or not they have any sports experience. The Big Data Bowl […]
Building a Digital Athlete: Using AI to rewrite the playbook on NFL player safety
Just as National Football League (NFL) players train and practice to constantly improve, the NFL continually seeks new ways to make the game safer for its players, and more exciting for fans. A key element of this effort is development of the Digital Athlete, a joint effort between the NFL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]
Behind the scenes: AWS real-time architecture for Bundesliga Match Facts
This blog was co-authored by Alexander Smirnoff, Senior Cloud Applications Developer, and Kirill Serykh, Data Scientist, from Sportec Solutions AG. Figure 1: Bundesliga Match Facts showing real-time in-game statistics Bundesliga, Germany’s premier football league, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver near real-time statistics and in-depth in-game insights called Bundesliga Match Facts (BMF). These statistics […]
Create Fan360 data products on AWS
Introduction The blog post Better understand sports fan data with Fan360 on AWS introduces how a Fan360 data mesh architecture can help sport entities enrich insights through data collaboration within the organization, with third parties, partners, and sponsors. Insights and collaboration can be used to build new avenues for monetization. Creating an effective data product in your Fan360 data […]
Better understand sports fan data with Fan360 on AWS
Introduction Companies and businesses of all sizes across industries now consider acquiring data-driven insights from their customer base as a key priority. Sports entities (teams, leagues, sport broadcasters and partners) are no different. Understanding their global, diverse, and distributed fan-bases is critical to their business strategies. Sports fans interact with their favorite sports and teams […]
AWS and NHL unveil new NHL EDGE IQ Ice Tilt metric to help measure momentum during the game
Ice Tilt helps crack the code on how action on the ice translates to momentum shifts within the game While traditional stats like goals scored and save percentage are straightforward to track, more nuanced aspects of a hockey game have been deemed immeasurable – until now. For the first time ever, the National Hockey League […]
M&E and Sports at re:Invent 2023
From the Rec Center at Mandalay Bay to the AWS for Industries Pavilion at the Venetian, the influence of Media & Entertainment (M&E), and Sports was readily apparent at AWS re:Invent 2023. Held November 27 – December 1 in Las Vegas, the annual AWS event welcomed attendees from around the world to learn from AWS […]
PGA TOUR win probability model powered by AWS
Driving advanced golf analytics In the world of professional sports, data-driven insights have become a game-changer for players and fans alike, revolutionizing the way we understand player performance, game strategies, and the very dynamics of the sport itself. The game of golf, long associated with tradition and precision, has recently embraced the power of advanced […]
IMG ARENA predicts golfer performance with Amazon SageMaker
In an era of advanced analytics, fans of professional sports expect more than subjective commentary as part of the viewing experience. They seek data-driven insights, which is where company IMG ARENA (IMGA) excels. Harnessing the power of official sports data to deliver fan-centric experiences, IMGA has helped rights holders, the media, and betting industries offer […]
Feel the Pressure with new online game ‘Playbook Pass Rush’ from AWS and NFL Next Gen Stats
Are you ready to test your strategic skill and jump head first into the world of National Football League (NFL) analytics? Look no further than the immersive online game “Playbook Pass Rush” developed by AWS and the NFL Next Gen Stats team. Whether you’re a football enthusiast with a penchant for game strategy or just […]









