Posts Tagged ‘Sports performance’

Castrol Edge penalty analysis. Players will have to think from now on twice, before taking a penalty!

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on July 4, 2010. Posted in Articles, Individual Performance

In a previous blog post we have presented a new Castrol football application, the World Cup Predictor. Using performance data from every international match played by the World Cup 2010 participating teams in the last ten years and simulating the tournament more than 100 000 times, to minimize the error rate as much as possible, the Castrol team of performance analysts calculated each team’s chances of progression through the competition.

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Sport Management Performance Case Study: Competitive balance in the major football european leagues

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on July 1, 2010. Posted in Articles, KPI

Several months ago, Ernst & Young Global Media & Entertainment center launched the 6th edition of the ‘Football meets finance study’. In this latest edition the analysts from Ernst & Young are continuing a much debated topic in European football, the media rights and the impact on competitive balance.

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The financial performance of the world’s top football clubs – a “Deloitte Football Money League” special report

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on June 30, 2010. Posted in Articles, KPI

Deloitte Football Money League reached its 13th edition, once with the launch of its latest report on March 2010, under a striking headline: “Spanish Masters Football Money League”.

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Performance in tennis – the longest marathon match in the history of tennis

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on June 29, 2010. Posted in Articles, KPI

A few days ago at Wimbledon, the third grand slam of the year hosted what became the longest match in the history of official tennis competitions. The protagonists, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut have dueled during three consecutive days in what was to become an epic battle, which probably will remain forever in the Wimbledon annals of tennis and not only. The match established several staggering records:

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Enhancing business performance with intelligent data visualization – Ideas from sport

Written by Adelina Chelniciuc on June 28, 2010. Posted in Articles, Operational performance

Data presentation and visualization solutions have increased in popularity in the recent years. Tremendous advancements in information technology and the wide adoption of the internet had a positive effect on communication, data interchange and visualization across networks, business and social communities.

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