Wisesport offers reliable in-depth football (soccer) statistics on a unique scale of hundreds of statistics. Discover how your team performs in the most crucial metrics, compare teams and players, and step ahead of competitors. Based on your team’s average performance in recent matches, have they excelled or fallen behind? What player combinations work best for your strategy?

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Wisesport’s automated video clipping tool creates video clips of hundreds of match events including goals, shots and faceoffs. For instance, you can create a compilation of your team’s top-5 xG shots from playoffs or a goal reel. Depending on the match and venue, you can include different camera feeds and TV footage, which brings variety to video angles.

Superior value, low costs

Wisesport’s video clipping tool offers superior value at a fraction of the cost of comparable solutions on the market. As an additional feature of our fully automated real-time analytics platform, it seamlessly operates wherever the Wisesport platform is installed, provided there are one or more integrated cameras.

We wanted to offer a tool that is extremely simple to use:

1. Select one or more matches, and filter event types. Then select the clips you want to include in your new video.
2. Want more flavor? Add overlays, effects, customizable intro and outro sequences, and other extras.
3. Create polished videos with just one click. It only takes a minute or two!

Customize video presets

No matter what the purpose of your video is, we’ve got you covered: you can download and post the MP4 videos in both horizontal and vertical 1080p resolutions. Here’s one more tip: you can set your own presets to automatically generate similar top-5 shot compilations or other types of videos for every match.

With our cutting-edge video clipping tool, you can reduce the costs, time and effort typically spent on tedious video editing. This allows you to concentrate on what truly matters: planning and creating captivating content that resonates with your audiences and helps you achieve your goals.

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This is how hockey clubs Ilves and Tappara are using Wisehockey’s fully automated real-time sports analytics for fan engagement every day. Both play their home games in the super modern Nokia Arena.

Right after hosting the Finnish league’s exciting Tappara-TPS final, Nokia Arena will be the venue for the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on May 13–29. Hockey hype is rising to new heights!

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Senior Software Developer Santeri Karjalainen is a backend developer specializing in computer vision systems and machine learning for Wisesport. Here he provides professional insights into the analytics platform.

A smart tech stack results in scalability

“The Wisesport platform involves many aspects of information processing. The core of the system is built on collecting spatiotemporal data and calculating many different statistics. We use a radio-based tracking system to track players, referees, and the puck or ball. Advanced algorithms are run in the cloud to refine the spatial data and to calculate statistics for players and teams. We also use multiple cameras to record and analyze the match.

The Wisesport platform serves all data to end-users and third parties via different APIs and frontend applications. Additionally, our platform provides new experiences for spectators at sports venues.

Early on, Wisesport made good choices regarding the technology stack. We selected the microservices pattern and designed everything for horizontal scaling. This gives Wisesport a high degree of scalability in both the number of clients we can serve and the variety of features we can offer.”

A new take on computer vision in sports analytics

“Computer vision systems have long been used to track humans and other moving objects with high precision and accuracy. That is why we introduced computer vision to Wisesport with very promising results.

We have trained our human tracking model specifically to track hockey and football players from multiple different angles. Tracking a regular football is also possible with a separate model.

Detecting players and referees from a camera feed in real time is fairly easy with today’s technology. However, identification of players is much more difficult. Robust tracking of humans over time is complicated, especially when other humans sometimes obstruct them. This usually requires many different camera angles specifically set for that purpose. Processing all this requires a lot of compute.”

The Wisesport platform allows tracking players in multiple ways

“With the Wisesport platform, we use radio-based tracking data to uniquely identify players in a camera’s field of view. That is a fairly straightforward mapping from the 3D object space to the camera space. We then augment the tracking data with all insights provided by the computer vision. These insights include information such as whether a shot was a wrist shot or a slap shot, which way the player is facing, what are they doing with the stick, etc.

Even with just one camera angle, we can estimate the entire pose of players, including their hands, feet, and so on. To push our analytics even further, we build neural networks that infer all kinds of information from the players on the field. It is a great addition to the high-quality data that we already collect.”

“In addition to augmenting radio-based tracking data, the computer vision system produces spatial data for players and referees on its own. This means we can produce accurate spatial data for our analysis if some players or even an entire team is not wearing any radio transmitters.

We use a massive amount of radio-based tracking data for supervised learning, which allows us to approach computer vision based identification with an edge that no one else has. With the tracking data, we could build a model that can identify players with fewer camera angles than has previously been possible.”

Now we provide even more precise stats and deeper insights

“Our analytics system is agnostic regarding the tracking system. This means that we can separately improve the actual raw spatial input to the analytics. Any improvement in the quality, complexity, and richness of the model of the sporting event propagates into even more precise statistics and deeper insights.

Using just computer vision to track players and match events enables running our match analytics without any wearables. A well-known drawback of standalone computer vision systems is that they require a lot of computing power either locally or in the cloud. However, we have the data and expertise to build the most efficient solution to this problem.”

“Alongside applying neural networks for object recognition and different regression problems, we also experiment with end-to-end neural network architectures that ingest tracking data. The amount of data that we have collected so far allows us to fit models that seem to understand the flow of an ice hockey match and how players behave in different situations.

For example, we can infer the position of the puck with high accuracy with a deep learning system that takes only the positions of players and referees as inputs. Likewise, if we remove a player from the data, the neural network can give incredibly accurate predictions of where the player is. Since we already have a massive amount of data from different levels of ice hockey, we can dig deep into how different leagues and teams play.”

What sets Wisesport apart

“In general, I find applying these advanced machine learning methods such as autoencoders and both supervised and unsupervised learning very exciting. It will drive the field of sports analytics into a new age, especially with the data we have at our disposal.

Neural network architectures similar to what we have experimented with have been used and studied before. However, the amount of data to train these networks is usually very limited in its modality. The richness of data is what sets Wisesport apart from the rest.”

Stay tuned for more in-depth features on Wisesport, computer vision and machine learning!

The Wisehockey platform provides not just fully automated statistics but also real-time features to sports organizations’ partners. We want to enrich the service ecosystem and boost fan engagement around sports by providing ready-made data via our real-time data API. Wisehockey provides real-time analytics and services with years of experience and a uniquely wide variety of features. Watch the video above to get to know us!

Recently we posted some mid-season 2021–22 smart puck stats from the Finnish Hockey League Liiga on our Instagram account. These are just a couple of examples from our massive set of fully automated player and team stats from this season.

“Hardest shot” is a classic and fan favorite, understandably so. However, Wisehockey provides a lot more than that.

To begin with, we offer a wide variety of goalie statistics. For example, how many times did a goalkeeper save from behind a screen? That’s easy to tell from our ready-made data.

We also provide many advanced statistics such as xGsum. What does it mean? Well, expected goals (xG) is a stat that shows how likely it is that a shot hits the net. The sum of all shots’ xG means how many goals the player is statistically likely to score.​

In other words, xGsum shows how many goals a player was statistically likely to score during this season. Does the number of a player’s goals correspond to the xGsum? If goals meet or exceed the xGsum, then you’ve got a highly efficient player who really makes his best shots hit the goal net!

Another example of Wisehockey’s unique statistics is “forward pass distance”. It means the total distance the puck traveled toward the offensive zone with the player’s passes.When the score is high, the player efficiently advances his team’s attacks toward the opponent’s goal.

Not just trivia—boost fan engagement

What Wisehockey does is not just statistics and trivia. We offer tools not only for coaches but also for sports organizations’ partners, enabling unique ways to boost fan engagement via TV, apps, betting, arena media and other digital channels.

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We asked ice hockey professionals from our partner team Tappara, the 17-time Finnish champion.

“[Players] get concrete statistics about their strengths and development areas,” says Aki Näykki, Team Manager and Goaltending Coach of Tappara. “Young people today are very savvy. They understand and know how to use tech. They’re interested in the type of statistics Wisehockey can produce.“

“We live in a time where traditional elements of an ice hockey event are gradually turning digital,” says Aki Hautamäki, Manager of Sales and Business Development at Tamhockey Oy. “Diverse digital marketing solutions play a crucial role in reaching people.”

Watch the above video where ice hockey professionals from Tappara discuss advanced hockey analytics.