Analytics on offer for World Cup teams with FIFA providing stats tablets
The advance in technology at the World Cup is evident in more than use of VAR (Video Assistant Referee). The 32 teams will have stats tablets to see in-game positional data on players and the ball.
It’s another tool in the analytics arsenal that top soccer teams are increasingly relying on.
“It’s natural. Analytics is so tied in with technology,” said Bret Myers, a Villanova professor who is an analytics consultant with MLS champion Toronto FC. “Why we have that term analytics is because of the data that technology can generate. In sports, in competition you want any kind of edge that you can get.”