It’s no longer a question of if you should use tech to evaluate sports performance; rather, it’s which tech should be used. The Sports Innovation Lab (SIL) is trying to help clients answer that question with the launch of its online evaluation tool, Scout.
Using a panel of advisors, customers and academics, Scout created a rankings for the Athlete Performance Platform market.
“It is an exciting time for the sports industry because technology is fundamentally changing the future of sport at a very fast pace,” Josh Walker, Co-Founder/Managing Director of SIL, said in a statement. “Since our launch, we’ve been helping our sports industry clients make better technology decisions. They’ve told us they want a formal framework for evaluating and selecting technology. With the launch of Scout, we now have that tool.”
SIL has created four different “buyer personas” for its rankings. Those include enterprise buyers, sports scientists, strength and conditioning coaches and evangelists. Kinduct Technologies, an advanced analytics company, ended up topping the first three categories while Fusion Sports’s SMARTABASE also received high marks.
SIL hopes that their tool will make it so no longer will teams and their sports scientists be blindly searching for game changing tech. Instead, SIL will present the top options to them in a customizable fashion so they can make the decision that’s best for their organization.
Isaiah Kacyvenski, Co-Founder/Managing Director of SIL, explained in a statement, saying, “The Game Changers we’ve named in our Scout on the Athlete Performance Platform market have clearly demonstrated the ability to consolidate and analyze multiple sources of athlete data and provide a long-term vision of how this technology impacts everyone.”
