iceberg.hockey

iceberg.hockey is a network resource of technology of hockey analytics.

On November 24, 2016 the Microsoft company announced start of the iceberg.hockey resource and providing the Microsoft Azure platforms to the service of analytics operating on this resource. According to the statement of the company, the product helps to increase effective management of hockey clubs and to optimize use of budget of the team.

The product is created on the basis of modern technologies of analytics, machine learning and computer vision. A system is focused on managers and coaches of hockey clubs. On each game the solution is created by about one million lines of data, using three video cameras fixing everything that occurs in the field every tenth fraction of a second: ~ 500 parameters on each player. The error makes no more than 4%. The analysis helps to obtain information on an optimal combination of players, technique of a game of specific athletes, links and a command in general.

Screenshot of a window of a resource, (2016)

In the course of creation of technology the Iceberg Sports Analytics company got expert support of specialists of Microsoft and a cloud grant on use of resources of the Microsoft Azure platform according to the Microsoft Bizspark program.

The world market of digital sports analytics only arises. By estimates of the analytical agency Winter Green Research, in 2014 its volume was $125 million, but by 2021 will reach $4.7 billion. Level of penetration of such solutions in hockey for the present very low: 20-25% of total market of sports analytics. By our estimates, it will make about $1 billion by 2021. We use own algorithms created especially for hockey and began to apply analytical services Microsoft Azure to providing analytics in real time therefore are sure of advantages of our solution and intend to win an essential share of the arising world market of sports analytics. Vladislav Martynov, co-founder of Iceberg Sports Analytics company

Iceberg Sports Analytics became the participant of the program for support of startups of Microsoft Bizspark within which received a grant on use of resources of a cloud platform of Azure and also the expert help of our employees. We with pleasure took part in development of such perspective Russian solution. Dmitry Marchenko, the marketing director of technologies of data processing and cloud platform of Microsoft in Russia

Cloud support of Microsoft Azure provides delivery of video from a match from any place in the world for the further analysis, guarantees the high level of data protection against modern cyberthreats and provides its confidentiality.