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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

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Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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The NBA’s digital transformation is a game-changer

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Like the NFL, the NBA CTO opted to partner with Microsoft to leverage its Azure cloud platform, which Bhagavathula says contained all the digital components necessary to build the association’s streaming platform, while providing a cloud data lake and machine learning models the NBA could capitalize on for next-generation applications.

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