Sports and Performance Psychology

Hamstring injuries are the bane of athletes in every sport that requires open-field running. While preventive programs, such as the FIFA 11+ protocols, have shown some efficacy at reducing their frequency, hamstring injuries remain the most common ailment in baseball, football and soccer, most of which require sizable absences and feature high recurrence rates. Artificial intelligence could help. Orreco and its newly assembled, dozen-member Motion Data Collective is touting new proprietary machine learning algorithms that it says can identify 85% of hamstring injuries in elite male soccer players with 86% specificity.

The Minnesota Lynx won the WNBA championship, and it helped that the team tracked its shots using Noah Basketball to collect data and feedback.

“WHOOP and MLB Announce Findings of Largest Performance Study Ever Conducted in Professional Sports.”

On my first day at WHOOP, in the midst of filling out HR paperwork and getting my new computer set up, my boss grabbed me on his way into a meeting and said “Hey, I think you might enjoy sitting

If there’s a lesson to be learned from D'Antoni and Marshall's first-round win in the NCAA Tournament, it’s that data-based playmaking matters, and the three-point shot may be the smartest play there is.

Scouting service Tracking Football, which has a dozen major college clients, uses recruits' track and field results to assess their underlying athleticism.