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Soccer Embraces Big Data to Quantify the Beautiful Game

From a training standpoint, miCoach will allow teams to closely monitor a player’s precise physical exertion during practice or games. Coaches will be able to identify who needs extra rest, or extra work. Fluctuating readings well below a player’s baseline can allow for easy identification of injury, perhaps even before the player knows something is wrong. The device also will allow coaches to track their players simultaneously, and analyze on-the-fly which of them physically offers the best chance at victory.

"Say we’re involved in an intense game, a dogfight, and you’re trying to figure out who still has something left in the tank to make it through extra time," said John Hackworth, interim manager of the Philadelphia Union. "That becomes an invaluable tool. Rather than coaches estimating that a guy looks a little fatigued, this gives you a metric to actually measure it."

By Jason Turbow

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/09/major-league-socccer-micoach/

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