Decision-Ready Sports Analytics for Everyone

What is a decision-ready analytic and why is it important to YOU?

A decision-ready analytic is a live game performance insight that you are ready to act on. It is the ability to recognize critical biomechanics (movement) changes or changes in player behavior. Once you identify the decision-ready analytic next is to determine what the analytic means to player and team performance and game outcomes.

Yes, everyone can master the decision-ready analytic and use it in sports predictions!

The key to effective decision-ready analytics is to recognize changes in player and team performance BEFORE anyone else.

That's where qualitative analysis (QA) comes in. QA is a fancy way to say that a movement change reveals player changes that help to explain why a player or team is gaining momentum or losing its edge — ahead of the scoreboard.

Remember that qualitative analysis (QA) is ongoing in real-time. If you see an odd mechanic, AND you determine a reason for that strange mechanic AND that the mechanic could affect play you have successfully formed a decision-ready analytic.

What you do with your decision-ready analytics next is up to you and can determine whether you are ahead of the curve or not when it comes to prediction player performance and game outcomes.

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Author Biography

Amy Ashmore, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is an educator focused on resistance training and performance analytics located in Las Vegas, NV.

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