Last week, the WNBA announced a partnership with Genius Sports to bring Second Spectrum to the league, making the WNBA the first U.S. women’s professional sports league to have league-wide 3D tracking.
Second Spectrum is well regarded as the premier optical tracking provider in American sports, and with the season starting May 14, the WNBA will utilize the camera tracking in every arena. With the optimal tracking comes comprehensive data collection, which will facilitate a myriad of basketball-related applications.
Tom Ryan, Vice President in the Basketball Strategy group at the National Basketball Association (NBA), highlighted the long-term ambitions associated with this partnership:
In the short term, we’ll be doing this for [20]24 but over the long term we definitely have ambitions to use that data to help automate certain call types and make the game more accurate and be able to make decisions faster. With the 3D player pose, we’ll be able to get different performance metrics for the first time.
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