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Sports data collection and presentation

  • US 9,486,693 B2
  • Filed: 08/30/2013
  • Issued: 11/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system of collecting and displaying statistical performance data of football tactical plays which includes:

  • a) player data loggers worn by each player that include accelerometers and location sensors that provide data on duration of play, acceleration, speed, direction of movement, possession of ball, force of impacts;

    b) a processor that collects data from the sensors and from other sources for a plurality of tactical plays and analyzes the data for each tactical play to determine i) an initial line of scrimmage for each tactical play, ii) the end of each tactical play, and (iii) for each player, one or more of start position and end position, duration of play, acceleration, speed, direction of movement, possession of ball, and force of impacts for each tactical play, the processor being programmed to normalize the collected and analyzed direction of movement data for each tactical play by subtracting a starting point vector from each subsequent point vector within the direction of movement data to generate normalized statistics, the starting point vector being based on one of the respective initial line of scrimmage or a respective player start point, so that all tactical plays and all individual player performances are comparable from the same start point using the normalized statistics; and

    c) display means to graphically display the normalized statistics for at least one of the tactical plays combined with video images of the at least one of the tactical plays and at least one of the players.

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