Catapult Group International Limited (ASX:CAT) has brought together two of its most powerful performance management solutions to deliver a first of its kind, advanced, all-in-one video and data analytics platform for athletes and teams.
The global leader in sports technology solutions for professional athletes and teams has now combined the MatchTracker video analysis platform with Vector wearables system for the first time.
Teams are now able to contextualise player-specific performance insights with video footage from practices and games, allowing for deeper tactical analysis, data-backed decision making, and time savings.
CEO Will Lopes said the integration furthers Catapult’s vision to provide elite organisations with an all-in-one video and data analysis platform. It also extends its leadership position in video analysis solutions with a first-in-market innovation that builds on its existing video capability gained through its acquisition of SBG Sports Software.
Until now, teams have been using separate platforms to analyse athlete data and video footage, requiring them to manually cross-reference the performance data and video clips to gain insights. For many teams even accessing third party optical data was prohibitive due to its high-cost barrier.
The integration of Vector’s performance analytics with MatchTracker’s video solution, makes video analytics more accessible to a larger number of teams and provides all users throughout a team with a single source of truth for athlete performance that can be customised to their function.
It allows teams to contextualise the physical outputs of every phase of play, empowering them to optimise training sessions with more certainty and accuracy than ever before.
These workflows are all in a single platform, saving the teams significant amounts of time and powering faster decision making.
The enhanced MatchTracker functionality transforms a variety of team workflows and unleashes new insights for coaches:
- Player performance in context: Coaches can now view video with every player metric for any action, event, or game state. This allows them to better understand individual player’s physical outputs related to their game actions.
- Insights for every outcome: The tool automatically connects every event, phase of play, or game state to a variety of player outputs including Max Speed, Intensity, Distance Covered, Player Load. Now teams can quickly identify players involved in key moments and analyse performance related to their physical outputs.
- Unlock GPS positional data: Teams without optical data can now leverage GPS positional data from wearable devices. This allows them to view team positional data on a 2D pitch that is connected to every event in order to create visualizations including heatmaps, average positions, trails, and traces.
- Comprehensive team insights: Teams can now identify each player’s max intensities and determine the precise physical outputs required to execute coaching strategies and improve training programmes.
Coaches have more data than ever before, but without context for why and when certain data points occur, they are unable to unleash their potential,” Mr Lopes.
“For the first time ever teams will have the ability to quantify and visualize new aspects of game planning that were previously isolated in silos within their teams. This saves coaches critical time and empowers them with insights they’ve never had before.
“The advanced functionality will dramatically help to streamline workflows, break down team silos, and allow for a more comprehensive view of athlete performance. I can’t wait to see what teams around the world are able to achieve with this technology.
MatchTracker now with Vector integration is available to soccer and rugby teams worldwide, and will be available for other sports including American football, basketball, and ice hockey over the next 12 months.
