By: Aayushman
There are 3.5 billion football (soccer) fans in the world, and their passion fuels a $600 billion+ industry for prediction games, advertising, broadcasting, and merchandise. But what if the way that the beautiful game is being produced & consumed was just the tip of the surface? What if there is much more to it than what we’re currently used to? What if we told you that the beautiful game has not been mined for the intelligence it actually holds because humans have just not been able to scale the process of producing intelligence from it? What if its potential was trapped all along because of human limitations of capturing, distributing, and analysing data at scale?
Imagine a football coach who has studied the game for a decade. He is currently working in a club that plies its trade in an obscure corner of the world, a place with no football media coverage or visibility. Sure, the club has some social media presence, but this coach is talented; he knows he deserves to make it big. He has studied the game, watched hours of gameplay & thought about it 24/7 just like the coaching talent at the biggest football clubs in the world. All he needs is access to the same technology used by the big clubs, who have million-dollar budgets to spend on data science and analytics teams and service providers.
Currently, his best option is to find someone rich, who believes in his talent and convince them to back his club with potentially not much ROI in the immediate term as sponsorships are hard to come by for his club with no broadcasting potential. Without broadcasting there are no eyeballs for a marketer to invest into the club’s development, so where will the revenues come from? To become worthy of revenue, the club must compete on the field and win. To compete and win, they need good players who in turn need data science and analytics technology to understand their gameplay and improve it. It is a tricky cold start problem to solve and millions of talented football coaches alongside him in similar circumstances spend their best years in obscurity with many having never progressed in their entire lives. But our football coach is restless and stubborn. He refuses to back down.
He asks himself, could there be another way? Could he find a technology partner that would not only help him unlock his team’s performance data using just video footage as input but also intelligently guide him towards a path that could help him build the next great football club from scratch and become a part of sporting legacy? Just like Billy Beane had done for Oakland Athletics and catalysed the Moneyball movement in Major League Baseball, USA.
Enter Score Vision, built on Bittensor to democratize access to data analytics and intelligence for millions of football coaches, staff and players all over the world with no access to the latest technology that is the key to supercharge their careers and increase their ability to compete at par with the biggest spenders, the biggest sporting institutions on the planet who use proprietary technology to get an edge over everyone else. Not only can millions of coaches, players and staff use Score Vision for 1/100th of the cost of their centralized counterparts but they can also receive intelligence 100 times faster. This changes the face of the beautiful game forever.
Now, let’s understand how Score Vision works to help our talented football coach build the foundations of a great football club.
Being the enterprising person he is, our football coach knows he needs to work with the players he already has. So he starts using video for all training and competitive match sessions. He sets up a pre-season calendar where his players need to exceed a certain performance benchmark to qualify to play for the first team. He asks his analyst to ensure that all competitive match videos are streamed to Score Vision on Bittensor as soon as possible so that its miners and validators can annotate each video frame, tag actions & objects and classify events to intelligently generate individual player and team statistics, which in turn are used as inputs to his gameplay strategy for the new playing season. He needs to use Score Vision to find the best players he currently has and then go out into the market to find the players who were performing at his benchmark. He stipulated a 3 month long process for this with the analyst.
Working with the Score Vision team, he finished the process in a week. Score was able to send him player and team intelligence within an hour of sending all the weekend match video footage, including competitor team videos. He realized his players were much worse than he actually thought. Score also told him that there were almost ten players that fit his budget & matched his performance benchmarks but were currently undervalued by other competitor teams. He rushed to his director of football to offer them new contracts as soon as possible and started calling up their agents to set up meetings. He was in luck, no one was moving as fast as him in the market.
Within two weeks of signing the new players, the team performance benchmarks shot up through the roof, well above his expectations. He was able to optimize for performance in real-time thanks to Score, as each training and competition session generated new data for Score’s AI models. In fact, Score was able to setup a separate environment specifically for his club so that the model would be as accurate as possible.
In the next 6 months, our talented football coach won everything. In 12 months, his club was playing at a level that fans could not even have dreamt of. In 36 months, they’d reached within touching distance of the top football league in the continent with whispers of a new multi-billion dollar hedge fund taking an interest in ownership. Apparently the hedge fund had something to do with Bittensor.
Something new is brewing in the world of football, the beautifully intelligent game. Score Vision’s ability to intelligently process and disseminate football videos to allow anyone in the world to use it as a building block, unlocks entirely new markets that are not possible with today’s technology.
Just like our football coach who turned an obscure club into glory using Score Vision—where training and match videos became raw inputs for miners and validators—imagine the broader potential. Score Vision could mine intelligence from any video, across any use case, transforming video into a new asset class—an intelligent class that actively drives humanity forward in its leap toward decentralized intelligence on Bittensor.
Find Score here:
Website: https://www.scorevision.io/
Twitter: https://x.com/webuildscore
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