Passion

to Discover
Who we are…
Founded in 2013 as a spinoff from the University of Twente

48 employees (34 FTE)

Offices in the Netherlands, Germany and France

Collaboration with 31 clubs around the world

Selected as one of the next European Unicorns (The European Union)

Most Innovative Football Company (The HYPE Foundation)

Sprout Challenger Award 2017

Track record in
the industry
Cases and clients
Some of our Clients
SciSkill
The most current and
reliable player ranking
SciSkill
The basis
The knowledge and intelligence of SciSports come together in a
number: the SciSkill. This number represents the strength and
potential of football players.

The outcome of the attacking and defensive contribution of a player to

the team result forms the basis of this number. The algorithm also
takes into account club and competition level.

“The first and only index which can compare more than
90,000 footballers worldwide.”
SciSkill
Coverage
Fully automated system with a weekly update of the rankings based
on played matches:

• 90,000 active players

• 244 competitions worldwide
• 3,698 clubs worldwide
• 2,000 matches each week

“SciSkill offers confirmation, gives new insights,

provides direction, reduces risks and increases the
chances of success.”
Highest SciSkill
Highest Potential
U21 years old
The online platform to compare
more than 90,000 players
around the world
But we need more
accurate data....
But we need more
accurate data...

...which is why we
developed BallJames
Knowledge
to lead
the game
The Technology: BallJames
Fully autonomous real-time 3D Data Generation System
Based on Deep Learning & Computer Vision
14 camera’s automatically generate voxel data from video
Ultimate scalable platform
Customized advanced stats for every coach

“This is the future” – FC Barcelona

“Exactly what we need” – Arsenal FC
“Totally Astonishing!” – UEFA
 Why BallJames?
Competitive data providers are:
Inaccurate (due to occlusions)
Slow
Subjective (human operators needed)
Cost inefficient
Unreliable (huge differences between positions)
BallJames: Competitor Review
Partnerships
Deep Learning Development Partnership
Oliver Schabenberger (COO)
“This is cutting edge stuff”

Sales partnership
Emmanuele Massuocco (Co-Founder)
“Their sports intelligence fits perfect with our platform”

BallJames development Partnership

Premier League Club (Head of Analytics)
“This can help us to make the next step”
 Edge Real-time Deep Direct
Large amounts Player/Ball Deep
Computing Learning Insights
of data Detection Learning
(cameras) Deployment

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Edge Analytics
By 2019, at least 40% of IoT-created data will be stored, processed,
analyzed and acted upon close to, or at the Edge.
Source: IDC, Worldwide Internet of Things 2017 Predictions, November
2016
SciSports - AI At The Edge
Why SAS for SciSports? - Differentiators

SAS’ focus on operationalization of the detection models

Governed processes

Not limited to the cloud or just one cloud

Simplified end-to-end integration

Integrated analytical streaming engine

Supported globally (tech, language...)

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Advanced Streaming Analytics
Multi-Phase, In-Stream Analytics

Live, in-motion event analysis

In-Stream Analytics Machine Learning Event Processing
Deploy models trained on In-stream model training and Compute, aggregate, filter,
historical data at rest scoring correlate events

Text Analytics In-Stream Geofencing Data Quality

Extract entities, tokenize text, Real time location analytics Business rules data quality and
classify and identify sentiment policy definitions

Model Supervision In-Stream Time Patterns Open Source Integration

Control runtime model Time series detection and Deploy Python and C models
deployment analysis

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