An article about artificial Intelligence in basketball, published on Science's website
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 12:15 am
IIRC the Raptors had created a tool that generated ideal shadow defenders who could be inserted into their video or court diagrams, showing where theoretically ideal defenders would've placed themselves.
This looks like it takes that idea a bit further. It looks like an electronic whiteboard where the coach can move their players around, and the computer will show how defenders might react to that.
We can easily think of potential uses for this, as well as weaknesses and limitations. It looks more like an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary leap forward.
What I find interesting is that basketball research is getting covered by Science, granted this seems to be a column on their website, not a peer-reviewed article in Science magazine. But I've seen very few articles about sports analytics on their website prior to this.
This looks like it takes that idea a bit further. It looks like an electronic whiteboard where the coach can move their players around, and the computer will show how defenders might react to that.
We can easily think of potential uses for this, as well as weaknesses and limitations. It looks more like an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary leap forward.
What I find interesting is that basketball research is getting covered by Science, granted this seems to be a column on their website, not a peer-reviewed article in Science magazine. But I've seen very few articles about sports analytics on their website prior to this.