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Visual analytics are being used in applications to improve professional players's performance when playing their respective sports.
Coaches use the Data collected by the supporting staff and the assistant coaches in order to guide players on what optimal decisions to take and when exactly. These conclusions are based on studying trends that are repeated by opponent teams. Teams who use these tools to study trends and prepare accordingly have managed to merge technology and sports in a very creative way, and most importantly help improve player performance.
Coaches use the Data collected by the supporting staff and the assistant coaches in order to guide players on what optimal decisions to take and when exactly. These conclusions are based on studying trends that are repeated by opponent teams. Teams who use these tools to study trends and prepare accordingly have managed to merge technology and sports in a very creative way, and most importantly help improve player performance.
what would be more interesting is how they also use data about rival teams to their advantage. From the look of it, now the coaches need to beat each other with their game plans that can predict what the other person would do with the huge amount of player performance data available rather than just coming up with something to improve performance of their own players.
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