Analytics and the Olympics: the development of performance analysis systems for elite sport Prof Steve Haake

Staff

PhD students

Masters students

UK Sport Innovation Partnership

UK Sport Innovation Partnership

•  2008-2012 and 2012-2016 •  Any technologies that improve performance •  Equipment and enabling technologies •  Embedded technologies •  Projects allocated as we go

•  Value for money •  Ability to affect medals

Skeleton bobsled

Skeleton bobsled

Skeleton bobsled

Skeleton bobsled

Skeleton bobsled

Performance analysis: analysis or analytics?

Anecdote Analysis Analytics

Inspection Statistics Multivariate

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Methods

Communication

Machine learning

Verbal Video Simple data

Video Simple data

Graph(s)

Video Simple data

Graphs Dashboard

UK Sport Innovation Partnership

•  How do you know you make a difference?

100-m: What affects performance?

Average of the top-25 performances

Pole vault: what affects performance?

Average of the top-25 performances

Post-war performances

Haake (2009) The impact of technology on sporting performance in Olympic sports, JSS, 27 (13) 1421-1431

What affects performance?

What affects performance?

Performance improvement: key principles

• What data do we have? •  Is it validated? • What is our understanding? •  How will we feed it back? •  How will we change behaviour?

Technical performance analysis systems: What we want to do…

•  Record data and video •  Store it •  Retrieve it •  Analyse it •  Feed it back, change behaviour & improve performance

Visualization and feedback How we want it…

•  In situ •  Immediately and visually •  Automatically with high resolution • With the ability to annotate •  Distributed automatically to athletes and coaches •  Low cost (or no cost) •  Now (or last week)

Technical performance analysis systems

Off  the  shelf  systems  

Diving

Measurement  –  in  the  field  

iDive

Visualization and feedback  

Race analysis system “Nemo”

Race analysis system “Nemo”

•  Video race analysis •  1.2 million data entries •  47,000 swims •  2,500 swimmers •  60 tournaments

iGymnastics

Boxing – video capture and replay

Boxing – video capture and replay

iBoxer

iBoxer

iBoxer

iBoxer Database

iBoxer Hitcounter

iTaekwondo

iThor

iThor

iCurl

Support for London 2012

Performance improvement: analysis or analytics?

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Concluding remarks •  Know what your questions are •  Validate your data – understand errors •  Use analysis &/or analytics to provide feedback •  Start simply and learn as you go