Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Reading about basketball tech

The Wall Street Journal had an article about Krossover, a recent sports-tech company that processes game film (mostly from high schools, at this point) and provides next-day online indexed analysis, metrics, and video highlights; including things like graphics of shot selection for individual players with accompanying video of the shot tied to the X or O on the chart (see their short video). Pretty amazing algorithms.

I mention this in my library blog 1) in the spirit of March Madness, 2) to point out why competitive players and coaches READ to improve their game, and 3) and to submit that this sports/tech/ethics development would make a good argumentative essay topic for students.

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