Stats, tries and videotape
To the unintitiated, rugby might look like a game where players run about bashing into each other, but there’s a lot of preparation, planning and strategy going on. And behind all that is a growing adoption of data and statistics.
08 October 2019
Four pools. 20 teams. 12 stadia. 48 matches. One winner. On Saturday, 2 November, we’ll know the winner of the 2019 Rugby World Cup (RWC), being held in Japan.
So how to crowbar a timely rugby story into this edition of Brainstorm? It would need to be a story about a local technology company or use of analytics. Thankfully, there’s an innovative South African company that’s built its own performance analytics platform, called Stratus, to play a part in helping the Springboks compete for the title.
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