Archive for Category: "General Advice"
“Sports is worst possible business for a college graduate”
This is a quote from Mark Cuban at the recently held Sports Analytics Conference in MIT. For those who don’t know, Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a hugely successful business man (both in and out of sport). He is a massive advocate of sports analytics and has made an appearance at the Conference [...]
Rugby Analysis Example
Rugby Analysis Example I was doing some analysis for a local amateur rugby side the other day and I though it would be worth sharing. It’s a very basic analysis, but it is the first time this squad has been subjected to having their game looked at from this perspective and to be honest a [...]
Bill James & Sabermetrics
Bill James & Sabermetrics Bill James started a movement in Baseball, a movement that changed the game, how it was perceived and how scouts, management and staff did their jobs. But Bill James is not a coach, in fact he never really even played the game. He is simply a man dedicated to understanding Baseball [...]
Diary of a Performance Analyst – Damon Edmonds
Diary of a Performance Analyst – Damon Edmonds I am always grateful when Performance Analysts are willing to share their experiences and daily routines with others. Below, Damon Edmonds kindly shares what his weekly tasks consist of being a Performance Analysts to both the NSW Waratahs (Super 14) and Warringah RFC (1st Grade). As you can see [...]
Harvard Sports Analysis
Harvard Sports Analysis Last week I went Googling, looking for some new material for the site. I was immediately intrigued when I cam across a site called the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective(HSAC). The reason I started thevideoanalyst.com was because I always felt there was no central place for sports analysis to be discussed online, so [...]
Choosing A Video Analysis System
Choosing A Video Analysis System Investing in video analysis software can be a big decision and there are a couple of things you need to consider carefully before making that leap. Why? It is important to understand the reason for getting video analysis software. I am not talking about whether it has any benefit or not (I [...]
Performance Analysis Books
Performance Analysis Books Although there are not a huge selection of books on the market to deal with Performance Analysis in Sports I wanted to give a brief outline of some of them here. While not all will be relevant to your sport I think there is value in reading how other sports have applied [...]
Twin Head Tripod
Twin Head Tripod A few years back I was at a Performance Analysis conference and I came across a team using a dual head tripod. Basically a dual head tripod allows you mount two camera’s on the one tripod and have only one camera operator. What this football club were doing was using one camera [...]
International Accreditation in Performance Analysis
International Accreditation in Performance Analysis I have been involved in the area of performance analysis for the last 9 years. I came into the area purely from the practical sense. I did a business degree not a sports science one. As this industry was beginning to look like my career, I decided to go about getting a [...]
Referee Camera For Video Analysis
Through the website I got talking to Blake Sporne. Blake has taken the dive into being a ‘freelance’ video analyst and while we were sharing some ideas he alerted me to a video he had taken a few weeks back. He basically had one camera at the end of the pitch primarily focused on the [...]
