The Basketball Champions League (BCL) has announced a collaboration agreement until 2026 with Viziball, a French startup founded in 2019 specializing in data analysis and visualization to provide BCL with more innovative and advanced statistics.
By developing new types of match review, post-match analysis, player profile and comparison, and many other features, this collaboration will allow all fans, clubs, players, broadcasters and media to access the advanced statistics of the Basketball Champions League.
Patrick Comninos, CEO of the Basketball Champions League, said: “There is a growing trend in sports, and basketball in particular, to be more analytical. Technology continues to spread faster than ever before in sports, and basketball is one of the most important stakeholders in the current analytics movement. We are pleased to collaborate with Viziball for the coming seasons as part of the broader effort to strengthen the content we currently offer and propose innovative content. In this way, Viziball will help us increase the availability of Basketball Champions League data for all our various stakeholders, making it more accessible and attractive.”
Guillaume Blot, CEO of Viziball, said: “This partnership is a great opportunity to showcase our expertise, consolidate and continue our innovative approach combining data visualization and advanced statistics. The further expansion of advanced statistics for FIBA is clearly one of our main goals. “It has a consistent capacity to innovate and articulate its challenging analytical situations.”
For the first visible result of this partnership: https://www.championsleague.basketball/21-22/advanced-stats
