From Moneyball to TacticsAI

Moneyball was the story of how big data changed sports. TacticsAI starts the next chapter.

Moneyball allowed teams to buy great players at bargain prices. Crunch the data from their past performances and it could spot someone that the scouts overlooked.
People rely on their past experiences as a shortcut. But hidden in the data are some gems. The unconventional and overlooked.

Now that you’ve got the right players, what do you do with them? TacticsAI moves the analysis from the backroom to the pitch.

“Take 3 steps left to increase your odds of scoring.”

TacticsAI is another step towards real-time assistants. Set pieces today. Tomorrow? A whisper in the ear says dribble, don’t pass.

These powerful use cases are coming to everything, not just sports. As we electrify our homes, as the grid goes renewable, as the sun comes out from behind a cloud, an AI will optimise for it all.

I’ll be outside practising my keepie uppies.

Amazing research by Deepmind in collaboration with Liverpool FC.

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