8 Best Articles on Sports Analytics
The most useful articles on sports analytics from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Sports Analytics Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on sports analytics by Refind users in 2023.
Videos
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Rasmus Ankersen: How to outthink your competition
Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football executive Rasmus Ankersen. Using sports analytics to…
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on sports analytics—all under 10 minutes.
The End of the Beautiful Game? How the Analytics Revolution Is Changing Soccer
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, righ…
Why Nike selected a tech executive as its next CEO
Nike has been investing heavily in tech and data analytics. It sees its new CEO leading it into a future focused on data-driven, direct-to-consumer sales.
Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M
On the heels of Google buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion, another player in wearables and health technology has picked up a big round of growth funding to continue expanding its business. Whoop, which…
Advancing sports analytics through AI research
Sports analytics is in the midst of a remarkably important era, offering interesting opportunities for AI researchers and sports leaders alike.
Bringing IoT to sports analytics
Bringing IoT to sports analytics Gowda et al., NSDI 17 Welcome back to the summer term of #themorningpaper! To kick things off, we’ll be looking at a selection of papers from last month’…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on sports analytics.
The Curious Have Won
Theo Epstein has definitively proved that data can change the game
How data, not humans, run this Danish football club
Little Danish club Midtjylland have put analytics squarely at the heart of their operations. Whether the task is player recruitment or match evaluation – it's statistics first in Denmark. Could they be football's answer to the Oakland A's of Moneyball fame?
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