GameChanger, the N.Y.-based tech company that keeps teams and fans connected at the local level through stat keeping on its app and website, is launching a suite of new product features this season designed to help youth baseball and softball athletes get noticed easier. The features include automatic highlight reels, pitch velocity tracking and player profiles, which will allow players to showcase themselves publicly and on social media through bios, stats, spray charts and automatic video highlights. “GameChanger was envisioned at the very beginning, over 10 years ago, as a tool for coaches and just digitized scorebooks,” GameChanger President Sameer Ahuja told SBJ. “And what ultimately happened is we were able to create a fan experience out of it because everything the coaches were capturing on our app -- all the scores of the game, stats, play-by-play -- that was information that was never captured anywhere in a way that could be shared.” GameChanger now has over five million users. Last year, the platform streamed 300,00 games and had stats for 4.5 million games. Its premium subscription, which encompasses all of its features, is $9.99 per month. “With the economic opportunities that NIL brings at the collegiate level, there's just going to be a lot more demand for all these recruiting,” Ahuja said. “So all of the work that we're doing right now around video, around player profiles, around putting everyone's data together into one package, we're doubling down on that because that's all coming to the youth level. And I think it's going to be important to balance that with the developmental aspects of youth sports.”
