Tag Archives: Stats Perform

Key industry players partner for women’s sports research

Key industry players partner for women’s sports research

A group of leading industry groups and businesses have joined forces to carry out long-term research exploring the growth in women’s sports.

Entain, Stats Perform, the International Betting Integrity Association and the All-In Diversity Project will work in collaboration with the German Sports University of Cologne to conduct the research.

The initiative will focus on the links between the popularity of women’s sports, betting on women’s sports and rising numbers of female sports bettors.

The group will work to publish its findings ahead of football’s Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023, which will take place in Australia and New Zealand.

Confirmation of the new research project comes as the 2022 Uefa European Women’s Football Championship is taking place in England.

The tournament is currently at the quarter-final stage, with England, Spain, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Belgium, France and the Netherlands having progressed from the group stage.

The final will take place on 31 July at Londo..

Continue Reading

Stats Perform to launch Opta Vision

Stats Perform to launch Opta Vision

Sports data and analytics company Stats Perform has announced its new live Opta Vision data feeds for the 2022-23 football season, which will deliver a new series of football metrics.

In combining Opta event data with new tracking data, Opta Vision will provide insights to professional teams.

From this the Stats Perform also aims to deliver new storyline opportunities for broadcasters and publishers.

“We are very excited to be introducing the next generation of Opta data to our customers,” said Nancy Hensley, chief product officer at Stats Perform.

“By synchronising event and tracking data and then utilising our AI capabilities to generate enriched insights, we will be empowering performance analysis departments at teams, as well as a broadcaster’s production team, to identify new performance trends and tell great stories of the game.”

The merged data also uses Stat Perform’s Qwinn AI intelligence to generate more data outputs and deliver a more personalised experience to users.
..

Continue Reading

Scoping out the sports betting market

Scoping out the sports betting market

Earlier this week sports data provider Stats Perform and trading and pricing services company Sporting Solutions partnered to form the Betting Innovation Centre (BIC), a concept that aims to roll out B2B betting products to the market.

Shane Gannon, senior vice president of partnerships at Stats Perform, explains how the partnership and the BIC will develop and what opportunities lie ahead.

At its core, the BIC combines the key aspects of Stats Perform’s and Sporting Solutions’ offerings. The partnership sees Stats Perform’s AI and data facets work with Sporting Solutions ’trading and modelling services to produce a baseline that will produce scaled betting products.

“The BIC brings together the content creation, data expertise, front end product delivery capabilities, and the globally recognised Opta brand of Stats Perform with the expertise and heritage of Sporting Solutions trading and modelling,” says Gannon. “We will work in partnership to curate and create new, entertaining p..

Continue Reading

Stats Perform scores extension with Chinese Super League

Stats Perform scores extension with Chinese Super League

Stats Perform has signed a multi-year extension to its data partnership with the Chinese Super League (CSL), the top tier of club football in China.

Under the agreement, Stats Perform will serve the CSL’s event and tracking data provider, exclusively collecting tracking data using the SportVU system at the home venues of every CSL club.

Together with Opta event data, this tracking data will be used to supplement the league’s broadcast and digital channels, along with supporting partners including media, brands and sponsors.

Data will be delivered to the CSL through a range of Opta data feeds including advanced analytics data and predictive data for use across broadcast, digital and social platforms, before, during and after matches.

The deal also includes Pressbox Graphics, an application that Stats Perform said would help the CSL deepen fan interest by producing automated visual graphics and animations, powered by Opta data.

In addition, each club will have access to ProVision..

Continue Reading

Stats Perform secures IBIA accreditation for second consecutive year

Stats Perform secures IBIA accreditation for second consecutive year

Sports data and AI technology provider Stats Perform has renewed its accreditation to the International Betting Integrity Association’s (IBIA) Data Standards.

Following an independent audit from the eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA), Stats Perform was able to renew its accreditation for the collection and distribution of sports event data for betting.

IBIA accreditation kite mark

Stats Perform became the first sports data supplier to receive the accreditation back in January 2021, after committing to the watchdog’s best practice standards in late 2020.

“Having been a consistent advocate for the highest standards of integrity and quality in sports data, Stats Perform was proud to become the first company to champion and receive the accreditation,” Stats Perform chief betting officer Andrew Ashenden commented.

“To successfully renew the accreditation is testament to the ongoing quality and integrity efforts of our sports data operations teams.”

IBIA fi..

Continue Reading