The 'SPEED needed to make the play'..Game Speed
The 'SPEED needed to make the play'..Game Speed
There are just under 27,000 high schools and less than 1% have begun limited use of GPS wearables at practice and games. All NCAA and NFL teams use GPS and video analysis daily which drives many of the decisions coaches make. High school athletes with access to their GPS data have an advantage not afforded most athletes. GPS technology is not feasible for most high school athletic programs due to cost, maintenance, staffing resources and time to process the raw data into usable form.
To address this challenge and determine if we could offer this as a service, we looked into video analysis software companies with capabilities to track players, calculate and extract the data and display it as the play develops. Reliability. accuracy and precision were primary requirements. We didn't have to look far. Dartfish, used daily by Burt and Jacob for over a decade, had developed the capabilities a few years earlier. We decided to evaluate and test to determine if we could meet this challenge.
Sherilyn Fiveash (Hi Five Digital Productions), Jacob Meyer (Tactical Tennis) and Burt Weller (STANDOUT Sports Highlights) teamed up to launch Game Speed Data. We represent a combination of ideas, people and initiatives coordinated through a culture of service. To that end, we've aligned our business around services and technology that add value and support the student athlete family during the recruiting process. Our service is designed with one purpose in mind: to ensure athletes have everything they need to be seen and standout when communicating with coaches. A flat fee approach for year-round coverage provides freedom to communicate and collaborate with coaches more often and efficiently. Throughout the recruiting process, athletes can share athletic-specific performance metrics connected to game video & data. Athletes can now send tailored content that adds an extra layer of context to key performances throughout the recruiting process
Dartfish is a leading expert in Sports Performance Analysis. Our strong partnership with Dartfish began in 2009 and continues today as we introduce innovative video capabilities to help high school athletes share data from game performances with college coaches. For more than 20 years, Dartfish worked closely with US and international sports organizations to develop advanced technologies for improved sports performance. Olympic medalists, professional athletes, international sports federations, and clubs worldwide rely on Dartfish innovations.
In 2019 Dartfish released new capabilities to track players and extract precise measurements of athlete performances directly from video. 3D graphics visually display and update the data on the video for the duration of the play.
Dartfish solutions are widely used at US colleges in programs such with kinesiology, exercise science and physical therapy. At Texas A&M, Dartfish data was compared with Catapult Sports Vector and ClearSky wearable GPS technology. Using game film, player trajectory and speed data exported using Dartfish was compared to GPS wearable data and found to be 96% accurate.