Welcome to the KINEXON Sports blog, where we coaches, players, managers or fans learn about the latest insights, and stories about sports analytics, player tracking, and ball tracking.
Player tracking is gaining ground in volleyball. Using key performance indicators (KPIs) helps coaches and players evaluate progress, work towards specific goals, and make informed decisions based on objective data. Chris White, Customer Success Manager at KINEXON and Exercise Physiology Expert, gives insights on how KINEXON’s PERFORM IMU helps transform the sport of volleyball through KPIs in five steps.
Volleyball is a sport that greatly benefits from live player tracking and analytics. This technology helps coaches improve their players’ performance and prevent injuries. Fans also enjoy a richer experience of the game with new insights. What are the key metrics to track? How do they benefit different stakeholders? Learn how live data can enhance the game for players and fans.
The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) and KINEXON Sports have worked together closely since the 2019 – 20 season. Christian Günther, KINEXON expert for strategic partnerships, explains how adding player tracking and ball tracker technology has players, coaches, and fans seeing team handball in a completely different light.
The German Bundesliga has used player tracking to enhance the fan experience and support clubs with official match data for a long time. With all stadiums equipped with state-of-the-art camera setups and clubs implementing KINEXON tracking technologies in their practice facilities, the goal is clear: help teams obtain competitive insights, manage the risk of injury, and close the gap between training and match demands. Here is how it works.
Countless data insights have already become indispensable for coaches, players, media and fans in professional sports. American football goes one step further.
In collaboration with KINEXON Sports, the European League of Football also provided data on collisions and sprints to its staff and fans for the first time…in real time.
In the second-ever episode of our Sports Tech Talk, we look back at one of the topics we enjoyed most in 2022: women’s football. Here we remember not only a great Euro in the summer, but also numerous advances in tech. Jana Hubel (Sports Scientist at KINEXON) and Sven Gruel (Women’s Co-Coach at 1. FC Union Berlin) give an overview and provide an in-depth discussion of the question: How can data help women’s sport evolve for the better?
Sports performance software is now benefiting referees. Football analytics are helping match officials make more accurate and consistent decisions. And the sports data it provides allows coaches to analyze the beautiful game with unprecedented detail and gives fans insights never seen before.
Sports entities are continuing to look to data to drive success, both on and off the field. From player recruitment, through in-game analysis, and fan interaction to business performance. This edition by SportsPro, in conjunction with KINEXON, offers discussion and insight in all areas affecting leading sports franchises, and how it is becoming increasingly important to turn to data to gain an advantage over competitors.
In the Bundesliga, 1. FC Union Berlin has emerged as the unexpected frontrunner in one statistic. Union made waves when it took the lead in a vital metric — having the least number of injury-related absences. Could sports data be the key factor contributing to their success?
In cooperation with the European League of Football, KINEXON’s LPS system will be used for live player tracking in American Football at the upcoming Championship Game in Klagenfurt. The European League of Football also aims to further enhance the fan experience with live stats at the highest level.
To take a very close look at every action on the pitch, field or court in professional sports, data collection nowadays relies on countless technologies. In the midst of all these, there are new players: official match balls with an integrated tracking sensors for live tracking. FIFA has tested this technology extensively. The result: Balls with tracking sensors offer exclusive added value.
Regardless of your sex, athletes deserve the same treatment; but in this case, equality means to differentiate in the ways athletes need to be trained to perform at their best.
We closed our season-kickoff webinar series with a topic that’s particularly important to us right now — namely, what specific requirements do women have?
