REAL-TIME DECISION MAKING IN SPORTS

• US 20140236331A1
• Filed: 02/21/2013
• Published: 08/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Lehmann, Doron, Barak, Oren Frishberg
• Application Number:
  US13/772,665
• Publication Number:
  US 20140236331A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/93
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports

Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for calculating a proposed strategy for a sport. One example method includes identifying a set of historical data associated with prior performances of a sport, the set of historical data identifying a plurality of historical parameters associated with the prior performances; identifying a set of real-time situational data associated with a current performance of the sport in a game, the set of real-time situational data identifying a plurality of real-time parameters associated with the current performance; receiving a request to identify a proposed strategy associated with the current performance; calculating at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance based at least in part on the set of historical data and the set of real-time situational data; and providing the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance in response to the received request.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a set of historical data associated with prior performances of a sport, the set of historical data identifying a plurality of historical parameters associated with the prior performances;

identifying a set of real-time situational data associated with a current performance of the sport in a game, the set of real-time situational data identifying a plurality of real-time parameters associated with the current performance;

receiving a request to identify a proposed strategy associated with the current performance;

calculating at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance based at least in part on the set of historical data and the set of real-time situational data; and

providing the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance in response to the received request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying that a particular one of the at least one provided proposed strategies associated with the current performance is implemented;

calculating the success of the implemented strategy; and

using the calculated success of the implemented strategy and the set of identified real-time situational data and real-time parameters associated with the current performance of the sport to update the set of historical data and historical parameters associated with prior performances of the sport.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the success of the implemented strategy is calculated at least in part on the relative success of the implemented strategy.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of historical parameters and the plurality of real-time parameters include information associated with at least one of a weather description related to the associated performances, a time of day of the associated performances, and a physical location at which the associated performances are performed.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of historical parameters and the plurality of real-time parameters include information identifying at least one of the following:

a time remaining in the game, a score of the game, a location within a field of play for the game, a foul or penalty situation for the game, or an opponent in the game.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the proposed strategy includes at least one of the following:

inserting a particular personnel grouping for the current performance, identifying a role for one or more of the personnel in the particular personnel grouping, and identifying a particular play to execute for the current performance.

7. The method of claim 1, where the request to identify the proposed strategy associated with the current performance comprises a pre-defined query associated with a type of strategy, the pre-defined query including at least a portion of the real-time parameters associated with the current performance, and the pre-defined query submitted by a user associated with a portal;

and

where providing the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance in response to the received request comprises presenting the at least one proposed strategy to the user via a dashboard associated with the portal.

8. The method of claim 1, where the request to identify the proposed strategy associated with the current performance includes an identification of at least one user-proposed strategy;

where calculating the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance based at least in part on the set of historical data and the set of real-time situational data includes determining a likelihood of success associated with the at least one proposed strategy identified by the user; and

wherein providing the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance in response to the received request includes providing feedback to the user regarding the determined likelihood of success associated with the at least one user-proposed strategy.

9. The method of claim 1, where the set of historical data associated with prior performances of the sport is stored in an in-memory database, and where the request is received and processed at an analytical layer associated with the in-memory database, based at least in part on the set of real-time situational data identifying the plurality of real-time parameters associated with current performance.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computers associated with an enterprise portal; and

a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

identifying a set of historical data associated with prior performances of a sport, the set of historical data identifying a plurality of historical parameters associated with the prior performances;

identifying a set of real-time situational data associated with a current performance of the sport in a game, the set of real-time situational data identifying a plurality of real-time parameters associated with the current performance;

receiving a request to identify a proposed strategy associated with the current performance;

calculating at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance based at least in part on the set of historical data and the set of real-time situational data; and

providing the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance in response to the received request.

11. The system of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

identifying that a particular one of the at least one provided proposed strategies associated with the current performance is implemented;

calculating the success of the implemented strategy; and

using the calculated success of the implemented strategy and the set of identified real-time situational data and real-time parameters associated with the current performance of the sport to update the set of historical data and historical parameters associated with prior performances of the sport.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the success of the implemented strategy is calculated at least in part on the relative success of the implemented strategy.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of historical parameters and the plurality of real-time parameters include information associated with at least one of a weather description related to the associated performances, a time of day of the associated performances, and a physical location at which the associated performances are performed.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of historical parameters and the plurality of real-time parameters include information identifying at least one of the following:

a time remaining in the game, a score of the game, a location within a field of play for the game, a foul or penalty situation for the game, or an opponent in the game.

15. A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory storage medium, the product comprising non-transitory, computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

identifying a set of historical data associated with prior performances of a sport, the set of historical data identifying a plurality of historical parameters associated with the prior performances;

identifying a set of real-time situational data associated with a current performance of the sport in a game, the set of real-time situational data identifying a plurality of real-time parameters associated with the current performance;

receiving a request to identify a proposed strategy associated with the current performance;

calculating at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance based at least in part on the set of historical data and the set of real-time situational data; and

providing the at least one proposed strategy associated with the current performance in response to the received request.

16. The product of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

identifying that a particular one of the at least one provided proposed strategies associated with the current performance is implemented;

calculating the success of the implemented strategy; and

using the calculated success of the implemented strategy and the set of identified real-time situational data and real-time parameters associated with the current performance of the sport to update the set of historical data and historical parameters associated with prior performances of the sport.

17. The product of claim 15, wherein the success of the implemented strategy is calculated at least in part on the relative success of the implemented strategy.

18. The product of claim 15, wherein the plurality of historical parameters and the plurality of real-time parameters include information associated with at least one of a weather description related to the associated performances, a time of day of the associated performances, and a physical location at which the associated performances are performed.

19. The product of claim 15, wherein the plurality of historical parameters and the plurality of real-time parameters include information identifying at least one of the following:

a time remaining in the game, a score of the game, a location within a field of play for the game, a foul or penalty situation for the game, or an opponent in the game.

20. The product of claim 15, wherein the proposed strategy includes at least one of the following:

inserting a particular personnel grouping for the current performance, identifying a role for one or more of the personnel in the particular personnel grouping, and identifying a particular play to execute for the current performance.