In early 2022, StatsBomb became a multi-sport data provider as we moved into American football. For years, we have been the world leader in soccer data, and we used that experience to produce the premier data offering for football. In those short 2 years, we have gone from people wondering who we are to wowing people with our data and analytics tools. When people discover StatsBomb on the American football side, their minds are blown with what we can do to assist them in better analyzing a play, a game, a player, or a team. Let’s take a look at what that data looks like including the data creation process, what type of data we create, and a few things we do with the data.
Data Creation
Tracking Data
Tracking data is the lifeblood of the sports analytics community. It is also the lifeblood of what we do at StatsBomb. We collect data 30 …