Catapult launches next generation of video analysis for ice hockey

Global sports data and analytics company, Catapult has today revealed the next generation of video analysis for the sport of ice hockey. The new solution, originally built for Formula One and expanded to football, rugby, and recently basketball, will allow for the seamless integration of video capture, cloud-based sharing, and analysis of contextualised performance insights.

While Ice Hockey is not as big a sport in Australia as it is elsewhere in northern hemisphere countries, the extension of Catapult’s video analysis solution to this sport shows continued momentum of their growth strategy to expand their video solution to more sports.

Long trusted by hockey teams around the world, Catapult currently has a league-wide agreement with the National Hockey League in North America and works with approximately 250 teams in eight different countries. The new solution will be an enhancement to the widely trusted Thunder video analysis tool, which will be fully integrated.

Following its acquisition of SBG Sports Software, which is responsible for solutions powering some of the most successful Formula One and English Premier League teams, Catapult has begun to revolutionise the way other sports capture, analyze, plan, and share information across their organisations. As a result of its new SaaS business model, the Company is now able to expand its new solutions across global sports verticals.

Will Lopes, Catapult Chief Executive notes “we are improving our speed of innovation and bringing new solutions to teams and leagues faster and more efficiently than ever before.

“We look forward to bringing this first-of-its-kind solution to more sports, including American football, over the next year.”

Hockey teams will be able to capture, tag, and present multi-angle video and data live during games or practice using Focus. With Hub’s cloud-based playlists and presentations, insights can be shared across department silos from any location and in real-time, including during games or between periods.

Finally, GameTracker will provide teams with a new depth to their performance analysis. Developed as an extension of the Company’s cutting-edge MatchTracker and RaceWatch solutions, GameTracker connects multiple datasets to video, allowing teams to filter and visualise insights across every game, series, season and player.

With the new suite of tools, teams can visualise performance data to unlock a deeper level of insight. GameTracker offers teams the ability to:

• Uncover insights faster in less time: Users will get insights faster with intuitive filtering tools for every dataset with no coding required, providing approximately an additional two days per week of actionable coaching time from those insights.

• Streamline every workflow: Users will be able to create and share custom workbooks with preset filters & views during live games.

• Expand depth of analysis: Teams will be able to analyse performance across multiple games or an entire season.

• Integrate every dataset: For the first time, hockey teams will be able to connect data across every dataset, including physical data, to understand performance in context of every player at every moment.

Lopes added “Catapult solutions have been trusted by the best athletes on ice for more than two decades. Our hockey-specific and even position-specific metrics for athlete monitoring have been developed directly from the insights of the most elite hockey teams in the world. I’m proud that we can continue to bring a robust pipeline of innovation to the sport of hockey.”

Over the last five years, Catapult’s hockey business has grown by 7x, and ACV from Vector athlete monitoring in the sport has doubled in the last year. The expansion of the new platform into hockey is a notable milestone in bringing both video and analytics together for all sports as well as Catapult’s ambitious vision to create the leading data & analytics platform for sports performance.

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