Sports are a laboratory for economics. The scarcity and uniqueness of elite athletes meet with huge sums of money provided by stadium and television viewers. Sports science products and services complement the market for athletes. When I trained as an engineer the subject of economics was part of the coursework. If you are going to […]
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Sports Science: Week in Review, Jan 9-15
Every person and every organized group has its process. Technological innovations often reveal their significance in the process innovations that emerge from them. Those follow-on process innovations typically require a thorough understanding of the technology in order to materialize. Sports science is a case of process innovation that is trailing lots of technological innovations – […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Jan 2-8
Sports teams’ innovations has become a pattern of behavior. There’s the out-of-the-box hire: Cleveland’s Inspired Front-Office Hire (FanGraphs Baseball, Travis Sawchik) Richmond’s Jimmy VanOstrand lands unique job with Mariners (PostMedia, The Province) There’s some new analytics: White Sox Scouting Director Nick Hostetler: Communication, Analytics Have Been Key In Scouting Department Progress (CBS Chicago) Does ‘evil […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Dec 26-Jan 1
The holidays brought out a bunch of “the year in consumer technology” articles. Some focused on wearable personal health technology. Consumers and consumer technology play an important part in shaping sports science and athletes’ technology. User interfaces for athletes’ technology are, in general, poor, like you expext with early-stage technologies. Lousy interfaces also describes most […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Dec 19-Dec 25
The emergence of data science has had a profound effect on brain science and behavioral economics. Those two research domains have, in turn, had a profound effect on the research into human psychology. Evidence-based social science puts human performance under a microscope and sports science is a beneficiary. I studied human-computer interaction in graduate school. […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Dec 12-Dec 18
A few years back, like 5-6 years, people talked about bits and atoms like they were each their universes. It was pretty clearly separated. Bits were the 1s and 0s world of digital and online. Atoms were the chemical and biological world that all physical things occupy. The line separating atoms and bits has blurred […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Dec 5-Dec 11
This was the week that many of the world’s machine learning experts met in Barcelona for the annual NIPS conference (Neural Information Processing Systems). Stephen Zheng, Yisong Yue and Patrick Lucey had the one sports-related conference paper: Generating Long-term Trajectories Using Deep Hierarchical Networks (pdf). Sports analytics has past the point of spreadsheets and databases. […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Nov 28-Dec 4
Any separation that previously existed between athletes training and sports clinicians is going away. The overlap between injury prevention, injury rehabilitation and the impact both things have on athlete development is too great to ignore. At this point these profession cannot afford to just co-exist. They have to collaborate. The next set of sports silos […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Nov 21-Nov 27
Sports science is a unique convergence of human development and technology development. Besides the effort required these pathways don’t overlap, not when you think of human development in terms of psychology, education and health, and think of technology development in terms of engineering, design and business. Individual athlete development, if you read the articles, is […]
Read More →Sports Science: Week in Review, Nov 14-Nov 20
Collaboration, and what it means, was a major theme is this week’s reading: Special Talent, Special Treatment: How to Manage Superstar Athletes (CONQUA Sport, Daniel Gallan) In the new NBA, the gunner is a good teammate, not a ball hog (The Undefeated, Mike Wise) Tim Gabbett: When it comes to player welfare, communication remains the […]
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