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Re:Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics by gricardo99 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:56PM (#19985986)
Detailed per play/player stats involve quite a bit of effort to collect, and thus are not typically free. Sports stats in general is a fairly closely guarded and proprietary area. Here an interesting article about it from 2014: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-people-tracking-eve...

I have to assume computer vision will largely automate the process of collecting sports stats, even in real-time, if that hasn't already happened. For that I think you would need access (and licensing rights) to a quality video feed of the matches, different than what is broadcast for human consumption (i.e. shows the entire field of play the whole time).

Re:Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics by bmiller2 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:13AM (#19992489)
It does exist: https://www.hudl.com/

Lots of your local and state tax money for high school / university sports programs gets dumped into it

Re:Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics by lovemenot on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:49PM (#19986423)
Why not aggregate the uploaded videos from hundreds of fans?

Sure it would very noisy, but synchronised feeds from many angles seems valuable.