The other day I was talking to a radio personality who has a radio sports talk show. She was explaining to me why it was so important to stop the cheating in sports. Yes, we got on the subject of the upcoming Olympic Games, bicycle racing, baseball, and all of the pretend fouls we saw in the World Cup in South Africa. You know what I'm talking about, when a soccer player gets barely touched, rolls around and falls down on the ground as if they broke their ankle, trying to get the other team to catch a foul and a yellow card. Okay so let's talk about this for second shall we?
Obviously, there's no way a single "human" referee, or even a couple of "human" referees can see every single foul or all the interactions going on with all the players all the time. They can only call the fouls as they see them, and this is why folks watching on TV might see a foul that the referee doesn't, or that there is a bad call once in a while. What if all that was automated with some of the revolutionary technology we have these days used to scan crowds, or pick out faces and airport to stop terrorism?
Well, it turns out there are lots of military grade technologies which may find their way into professional sports, military transfer technologies. We may even start seeing this in amateur sports, or high school sports, or maybe even kids playing soccer in the AYS0. Seriously, some of the technology out there is ripe for the sports venue.
FastCompany had an interesting article recently titled; " Moneyball 2.0: How Missile Tracking Cameras Are Remaking The NBA - A new camera system is adding a whole new level of analytics to basketball. We talk to insiders using it," by Mark Wilson which stated;
"The technology was originally developed to track missiles. Now, SportVU systems hang from the catwalks of ten NBA stadiums, tiny webcams that silently track each player as they shoot, pass and run across the court, recording each and every move 25 times a second. SportVU can tell you not just Kevin Durant's shooting average, but his shooting average after dribbling one vs two times, or his shooting average with a defender three feet away vs five feet away. Their system captures the X/Y coordinates of all the players 72,000 times a game."
Yes, when I read that I was quite excited as I am working on a radio segment discussing the future of sports, and how technology will change everything from the Olympic Games to folks playing tennis just for fun. Having such technologies will level the playing field, and prevent the cheaters from taking control of the game. Indeed, when you step on the court, you will be agreeing to allow the ultimate spy machine to watch your every move. So don't pick your nose, because it will all be on camera. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Sports Topics. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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