Paul Carr

All this stuff that was impossible to do any way, but manually 20 years ago now can be, you know, almost instant because of, you know, high tech cameras and computers and,

It's easier to process data.

There's just so much more than there used to be.

numbers driven game and soccer you know you don't score as much you don't see a basketball like how does how does is there as much data for soccer or is there less data for soccer just because of the less scoring yeah today i mean the amount of data is is close i mean baseball's pretty much always going to be at the forefront they just had i mean literally a hundred year head start in some ways but even in system whatever modern era they're ahead by five ten years or so

But I mean, yeah, 20-ish years ago for soccer, it was basically like goals and gains and maybe assists, and that was almost it.

And then a company called Opta in the UK started watching all the games and just tracking stuff manually of who made a pass, where did the pass go, who received the pass, and counting anything you could do kind of on the ball.

So that became pretty standard after, I don't know, 10 years or so.

And then this next step is,

again, more in the NGS or StatCast realm of in-stadium tracking with cameras or using computer vision to do it off monitors and find things that are not on the ball.

You know, this guy making off-the-ball runs or how many defenders does he bypass with a pass to free up a teammate?

So it's, you know, it's not quite keeping pace with baseball, but it's a similar thing just a few years behind where he started with more just on-the-ball event stuff.

and then it's exploded into off-the-ball tracking, computers, et cetera, over the last few years.

Yeah, some of it.

I mean, some of it's biomech stuff there.

Some of it is where the player is.

And there's also...

the bigger leagues, and I think MLS has this too.

We have cameras in all the stadiums, and they're doing optical tracking, which would be the same thing MLB has for StatCast, where they can track everything that way.

So it's a combination of all those things.

Yeah, so if we're talking, I'll call it like on-the-ball data, you know, you want touches and tackles and passes.