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Power to the player: empowering football players through data rights and data backpacks
Professional football is currently in a data-driven era, with player metrics and performance statistics being heavily utilized by clubs and coaching staff to make strategic decisions. However, players often lack access control to their personal data. A lawsuit such as Project Red Card (also see this BBC article) has spotlighted potential violations of player data rights.
Recognizing the importance of player data rights, FIFA and FIFPRO have developed a Charter of Player Data Rights, empowering players to access, control, and also benefit from their data. This blog article investigates the advantages of a 'data backpack' system, which would give players greater access control over their data, aiding in performance enhancement, contract negotiations, and ethical data use.
A 'data backpack' is a digital repository of a player's personal and performance data. Utilizing Personal Data Stores, based on the Solid protocol, a decentralized data storage system, the 'data backpack' concept can be implemented, allowing players to store, manage, and share their data with stakeholders if based on a lawful ground of processing (need-to-know basis). It can serve individual players by helping them tailor training and recovery programs as well as monitor health and performance. Additionally, it has broader research applications in talent identification and injury risk mitigation.
As outlined below, we suggest that the adoption of a 'data backpack' system can empower players, making the football industry more equitable and transparent.
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Enhancing Sports and Health Innovation: Introducing the Project Setup Template
In the dynamic realm of sports and health technology, collaboration among individuals from diverse backgrounds, including academia, startups/industry, and sports/health fields, is commonplace. While this diversity brings forth a myriad of perspectives and insights, it can also pose challenges in aligning everyone towards a common goal. To address this, our team has developed a comprehensive 'Project Setup Template' tailored for science-based innovations in sports and health technology.
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Expand your network at the STRN Meet & Greet
In a world driven by innovation and collaboration, the importance of connections cannot be underestimated. With the Sports Tech Research Network, we want to bring individuals from diverse backgrounds together under a common umbrella of sports, research, and health technology. That's why we're organizing an online networking event - the 2nd STRN Meet & Greet!
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Monitoring kinematical and physiological signs of sports with flexible and wearable sensors
Flexible and wearable sensors have seen remarkable advancements in recent years. What are the current developments in utilizing these sensors in monitoring the kinematical and physiological signals of sports?
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Experts collaborate to establish the Sports Technology Quality Framework
A Sports Tech Quality Framework has been developed in collaboration with industry experts by means of a Delphi study. In a recently released White paper, the framework is introduced as a standardized, evidence-based decision-making approach for evaluating the value, usability, and quality of sports technology. This comprehensive document serves as a valuable resource for all sports technology stakeholders.
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A systematic review of wearable sensor technology to predict core body temperature (CBT)
Thousands of people worldwide are affected by heat-related illnesses. Core body temperature (CBT) measurement through wearable devices is shown to predict these illnesses, but what about the efficacy of these wearable technologies?
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How elite Canadian coaches adopt & implement new technology in their practice
In high-performance sport, technological innovation has proven to very impactful. What is the relation of the coach with technology adoption and implementation?
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Tracking systems in team sports: Applications of the data and sport specific analysis
Professional Team Sports organizations increasingly invest in athlete tracking systems to gain a competitive advantage and to manage injury risk. How should the choice for a tracking system be made and which metrics to use?
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Recap of the Sports Tech Research & Innovation Summit '22
On 14 & 15 September '22, STRN organized the Sports Tech Research & Innovation Summit. What were the reasons behind organizing this event, and did we succeed? Let's find out!
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Managing the Training Process in Elite Sports: From Descriptive to Prescriptive Data Analytics
Within elite sport organizations, practitioners frequently use data to manage elite athletes’ training process for the optimization of their health and performance. How could this data be used most effectively?