Player Tracking

There are a number of player tracking systems in use in sport.

Examples are:

• Amisco
• Bagadus
• ProZone
• Shottracker
• SportVu

Recommended Reading

Carling, C., Bloomfield, J., Nelsen, L., & Reilly, T. (2008). The role of motion analysis in elite soccer. Sports Medicine, 38(10), 839-862.

Edgecomb, S. J., & Norton, K. I. (2006). Comparison of global positioning and computer-based tracking systems for measuring player movement distance during Australian football. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 9(1), 25-32.

Suggested Reading

Castellano, J., Alvarez-Pastor, D., & Bradley, P. S. (2014). Evaluation of Research Using Computerised Tracking Systems (Amisco® and Prozone®) to Analyse Physical Performance in Elite Soccer: A Systematic Review. Sports Medicine, 1-12.

Mortensen, A., Gaddam, V. R., Stensland, H. K., Griwodz, C., Johansen, D., & Halvorsen, P. (2014). Automatic event extraction and video summaries from soccer games. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (pp. 176-179). ACM.

Mark Newman (2014). MLBAM introduces new way to analyze every play. MLB.com blog post 1 March.