To achieve its goals, Zynga uses the results of continuous data analyses of player activities to test and fine-tune features in their games.
In the future, MLS fans will be able to experience greater insight from the field of play as live, on-field player data will become an integral part of the game experience, whether watching from home or within the stadium.
Other interesting figures Pincus mentioned: Zynga tracks more than a pedabyte (1 million gigabytes) of player usage data every day, adds 1, 000 servers to support its games per week and currently uses more than 20, 000 servers.
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And everyone crunches player and team data daily to better inform their decisions on everything from the draft to whether to blitz Tom Brady on second-and-short in the third quarter when it's windy.
The other big global player in sending mobile data through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is Vodafone-Airtouch, which just joined with Mannesmann in the world's biggest-ever merger.
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The micoach Elite System includes a small data cell that fits into a player's base layer in a protective pocket on the back between the shoulder blades.
The Super Bowl XLVI simulation was conducted utilizing artificial intelligence powered by real-life data from each team to determine player ratings, and includes variances, such as injuries, to predict the outcome.
It will then self-destruct not in flames, its inventors hasten to add, but because contact with the air eventually renders its surface opaque, making it impossible for the laser in a disc player to read the data beneath.
Connected by a series of electrodes and sensors woven into the fabric of the base layer, the cell wirelessly transmits more than 200 data records per second from each player to a central computer and then is displayed in a series of simplified insights and results on the coach's iPad.
Starting this month, Nextel will be an early player in high-speed data transmission.
That is, its games would be data-driven, processing and analyzing player activity.
As the largest seller of video games on the planet, GME has more information than any other player and benefits from seeing data across multiple publishers and platforms.
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Rather than have the club's manager oversee player recruitment, Fenway put the data-focused Damien Comolli in charge of personnel.
He looks at jersey data on a style basis instead of by player because there are so many different types of jerseys: mens, womens, kids, replica, home, away and more.
Users connect their audio source to the player via analog audio input, and the player compares 15 seconds of waveform data with its internal "FingerPrints" database, matching the song up with its corresponding information from MusicID.
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We noted in May the availability of Panasonic 's SV-AV10--a small and sleek MP3 player and camcorder in one which stores data on tiny Secure Digital memory cards that certainly don't hold as much as a 20-gigabyte hard drive.
According to SportVU player-tracking technology, which provides specialized data to NBA teams and has analyzed 28 Knick games, Anthony shoots 46% from three-point range and nearly 49% overall when catching and shooting.
Since this elaborate electronic hoax is an embarrassment to the university at a level, will athletic departments create red flag words and phrases that alert the school of illicit conversations and then monitor player electronic communications like cell phone and computer data?
Clearly, when the biggest player in the industry reverses itself on sharing POS data and then adds panel data to the mix, there are going to be some huge ramifications.
John Dewan, the founder of Baseball Info Solutions, which provides data analysis to major-league clubs, said an offensive player's value peaks at 26 to 27 and remains fairly steady for the next five years.
According to Mr Krebs, who has blogged extensively about the various kit used by criminals in the US to target cash machines - they can skim the data contained on that magnetic strip just by using a cheap MP3 player - although more complex software is then required to decode it.
Its column-storebased data warehouse has enabled Airtel Vodafone to gain market share and become a major player in the European telecommunications sector.
The statistic is computed by calculating the average number of putts a PGA TOUR player is expected to take from every distance, based on ShotLink data from the previous season.
When a player purchases a game, PS4 downloads just a fraction of the data so gamers can start playing immediately, and the rest is downloaded in the background during actual gameplay.
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The data can then be relayed to coaches on sidelines to help them evaluate how a player is performing, or whether he should be removed after absorbing one too many high-impact hits.
Whether looking at traditional baseball statistics or Sabermetric data, the preponderance of the evidence suggests that Albert is not only the best player in the game today but perhaps one of the top 5 hitters of all-time.
Today, these technology solutions make it possible for sports organizations to effectively leverage their rich data assets and take their analytical capabilities to the next level beyond the rudimentary game, player, or scouting stats.
Going forward, LSI is firmly established as a central player in some of the most critical growth trends in computing, including cloud, Big Data, mobile networking and flash, with products that are bringing exciting new levels of speed and productivity to our customers.
Michigan point guard Trey Burke, the Big Ten player of the year, tallied 206 touches in two games this weekend, according to SportVU data, and the Wolverines wouldn't mind if he had even more.
The application not only provides instantaneous updates on data that can eventually be discerned from the games final box score, but also creates insights using a combination of player and situation statistics that would otherwise never be available from traditional real-time communication channels.
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