Trailblazing in Sport Project

Performance in and analysis of sports continually advances. BIOS attends to research on how athletes, teams, and organizations blaze new trails in their fields. Three areas are of particular interest to us. First, we examine how teams and organizations can apply mathematical principles to their work. This includes the leveraging of data at multiple levels. How and to what extent can data analytics be integrated into the core work of teams and organizations?

Second, we consider research on innovation, including new technologies and tools in sport and organizational performance. What works and what do we know about effective adaptation?

Third, BIOS examines opportunity in and through sports through data science. Who plays sports…and why and how can data science tell us about the major trends in sport? We draw from and extend research on youth and college sports and geographies of sport opportunity through data science and statistical measures to contribute to deeper understandings of how we can understand the various trends in sport.

Finally, we look deeply into sport-specific data. We work in concert with coaches and athletes to understand the big questions in their games so that, as much as possible, their decisions and strategies can be rooted in evidence.