Players decide games and coaches help to guide them, but U.S. Soccer has a team of number crunchers sifting through reams of ...

Carnegie Mellon University experts are turning that data into insight, using statistics and data science to help professional teams gain a competitive edge.

Ben Blatt, a data reporter for The Upshot, dreams up inventive ways to answer questions like: “Is Taylor Swift actually ...

Cris Collinsworth sells PFF to Teamworks as analytics group significantly changes its consumer facing platform ...

Teamworks, which works in all 136 college football FBS programs and all 32 NFL teams, is buying Pro Football Focus (PFF).

Opta’s ability to consult simultaneous variables and conjure up a real-time, mid-game stat — before disseminating it to media ...

T Rowe Price’s departing FX head reflects on the pain points and keys to success for a modern buy-side trading desk ...

Data analytics in football now generates 1.4 million data points in a single match, capturing every pass, sprint, and ...

There is something beautifully irrational about football. A fourth-and-two at midfield can feel like a moral dilemma. A deep shot down the sideline carries more emotional weight than a spreadsheet ...

Pro Football Focus (PFF), the omnipresent player performance tracking firm owned by NBC Sports lead NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth, is being sold to software and analytics company Teamworks, according ...

Startups rarely suffer from a lack of data. What they lack is clarity. Dashboards multiply. Metrics pile up. Traffic numbers spike and dip. Yet many founders still struggle to answer the only question ...

The Florida High School Athletic Association will be voting on a proposal to use MaxPreps rankings to rank and seed teams for the football state championships. FHSAA executive director Craig Damon has ...