Earlier this season, the NBA made available to fans the statistics collected by Stats' SportsVU, which is a six camera tracking system for every NBA game. The new system provides a wide range of new statistics that will be available to the public as the system is able to track distance and speed of players relatively position to the basketball.
This type of big data can help provide a competitive advantage for teams that can take advantage of the data and can effectively use it to better their team.
For example, new statics such as Rebound % can be gathered to measure not just total rebounds grabbed but how efficient player are at securing the the rock. Another metric that could be tracked would be the secondary assist for basketball that is currently tracked in hockey. There are other additional metrics that currently collected by the new system.
FtSb Says: Fantasy sports have pushed the original thinking of collecting stats into the age of the internet and into real time scoring. Additional, tracking of stats could also add to the customizations that are possible for fantasy team owners, however the statistics themselves must be easy to understand and easy to integrate into the fantasy game.
For basketball, additional statistics could be helpful if raising the popularity of fantasy basketball, which currently sits behind football, baseball, and even racing in popularity.
