Sports data and analytics platform StatsBomb has been acquired by sports technology firm Hudl barely a decade after it started as a humble blog. Founded in 2013, StatsBomb has grown into a leading data and analytics provider in both soccer and American Football.
The platform boasts clients across 35 countries, ranging from professional sports organizations to gambling sites and media companies. Its success has convinced sports technology titans Hudl to purchase the company. Hudl claims to supply 230,000 teams and eight million users across 40 different sports with its video and data products. It now adds StatsBomb data to its professional suite.
“I’m excited our customers will have access to this critical data in one platform to improve the performance of their teams and change the way they see the game,” said Chief Product Officer John Wirtz.
Meanwhile, StatsBomb CEO and co-founder Ted Knutson celebrated the move as a step forward for sports data in a post made to X.
“With Hudl’s distribution, our football product will fundamentally change coaching process like we did in soccer,” he wrote.
“And the soccer product will finally incorporate video, for the full data, insight, and video analysis cycle.
“I think the Founders of that company built something special in a very crowded, competitive space and I hope the fact that we carried ourselves differently was visible to the outside world from day 1 right through to the end.”
Blog to business: the StatsBomb story before Hudl
“A new sports stats site with a silly name. Why is it here and why should you care?”
This was the opening line of the first edition of the StatsBomb blog, published July 15, 2013.
Knutson, who authored the piece, clearly had a vision for the page but even he could not have imagined the ways it would evolve over the next 11 years.
The original concept was a humbler one. Under the sub-heading ‘What is StatsBomb?’ he wrote, “It’s going…
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Author : Jonny Coffey
Publish date : 2024-08-12 18:26:09
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