Category: Sports

Catching the action of a European football (or soccer) match is easy today, with no shortage of available streaming platforms and services to watch players from all leagues go head-to-head. Yet, when it comes to other sports—like handball, basketball, volleyball, hockey, and table tennis—fans have fewer options. To level the playing field for these enthusiasts, […]

Cricket’s fanbase is burgeoning worldwide, especially with the sport returning to the Summer Games in 2028 for the first time since 1900. While the bat-and-ball game is popular in the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, New Zealanders have also developed a passion for it, thanks to efforts by New Zealand Cricket (NZC). This governing […]

Live sports online streaming is a fast-growing market, forecast to grow from USD $18.6B in 2021 to USD $93.1B by 2027, a compound annual growth rate of 24.64% from 2022 to 2030. Sports streaming platforms continually advance, employing diverse strategies to delight users and enrich viewer engagement. These tactics encompass extended statistics and match facts, augmented […]

If you’re a professional or aspiring amateur data scientist, the Big Data Bowl should be on your radar. This annual competition, now in its sixth year, provides an open platform for engineers, data scientists, students, and analytics enthusiasts worldwide to get involved in football analytics—whether or not they have any sports experience. The Big Data Bowl […]

Just as National Football League (NFL) players train and practice to constantly improve, the NFL continually seeks new ways to make the game safer for its players, and more exciting for fans. A key element of this effort is development of the Digital Athlete, a joint effort between the NFL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]

This blog was co-authored by Alexander Smirnoff, Senior Cloud Applications Developer, and Kirill Serykh, Data Scientist, from Sportec Solutions AG. Figure 1: Bundesliga Match Facts showing real-time in-game statistics Bundesliga, Germany’s premier football league, uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver near real-time statistics and in-depth in-game insights called Bundesliga Match Facts (BMF). These statistics […]

Introduction The blog post Better understand sports fan data with Fan360 on AWS introduces how a Fan360 data mesh architecture can help sport entities enrich insights through data collaboration within the organization, with third parties, partners, and sponsors. Insights and collaboration can be used to build new avenues for monetization. Creating an effective data product in your Fan360 data […]

Introduction Companies and businesses of all sizes across industries now consider acquiring data-driven insights from their customer base as a key priority. Sports entities (teams, leagues, sport broadcasters and partners) are no different. Understanding their global, diverse, and distributed fan-bases is critical to their business strategies. Sports fans interact with their favorite sports and teams […]

Ice Tilt helps crack the code on how action on the ice translates to momentum shifts within the game While traditional stats like goals scored and save percentage are straightforward to track, more nuanced aspects of a hockey game have been deemed immeasurable – until now. For the first time ever, the National Hockey League […]

From the Rec Center at Mandalay Bay to the AWS for Industries Pavilion at the Venetian, the influence of Media & Entertainment (M&E), and Sports was readily apparent at AWS re:Invent 2023. Held November 27 – December 1 in Las Vegas, the annual AWS event welcomed attendees from around the world to learn from AWS […]