League Relationships
As the world’s leading sports information firm, STATS enjoys a multifaceted relationship with the top professional sports leagues and federations.
STATS’ proven methods of databasing and distribution are ideal for archiving and cataloguing league histories, records and facts in a digital format. To fully realize their revenue potential, leagues and federations rely on STATS as a world-wide distributor of their highly valued data and real-time score feeds.
When serving in the capacity of official league statistician, STATS is responsible for providing the full requisite of needs for teams, media members and broadcasters. Additionally, STATS provides end-to-end fantasy sports solutions that create interactive sponsorship opportunities for partners while increasing fan participation.
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National Football League
STATS is the official global distributor of the National Football League real-time play-by-play feed. The feed is utilized by leaders worldwide in broadcast, mobile, web, print, fantasy sports and social media.
In addition to real-time data coverage, STATS provides post-game review and analysis over and beyond the box score data that is tracked and collected in each NFL stadium. This extra data, called X-Info, includes yards after the catch, play action passes, formation details, passes dropped, tackles broken, penalty information and much more. STATS is able to leverage this information and create industry-leading applications and score centers inclusive of box scores, play-by-play descriptions, scoring summaries and head-to-head matchup information.
STATS’ in-house editorial team and The Associated Press reporter network produces complete editorial game previews and recaps for each NFL game throughout the season.
STATS supports all 32 NFL teams via STATS PASS®, a 24/7 online statistics, scouting reports and historical research tool.
STATS also provides in-depth research support to the NFL Network, the league’s official broadcast channel.
Major League Baseball
STATS is the official real-time data licensor for MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball.
STATS distributes real-time and post-game information to media outlets around the world covering web, mobile, broadcast, iTV and print. The agreement extends beyond the Major League Baseball calendar of games to include all affiliated leagues, such as Triple-A, Double-A, Single-A, Rookie League, Arizona Fall League, the Caribbean Winter Leagues and World Baseball Classic.
STATS in-house editorial team and The Associated Press reporter network produce complete editorial game previews and recaps for each MLB game throughout the season.
National Basketball Association
STATS distributes complete NBA, WNBA and NBA Development League statistical information to broadcast, print, online and other media outlets around the world in real-time. Overall, STATS will deliver more than 500 statistical events per game, and more than 650,000 throughout the year. Additionally, STATS provides a robust feed that incorporates data points sourced directly from each NBA arena, along with additional information compiled by STATS’ reporter network.
In addition to the traditional data collection set, the NBA collects premium statistics in the real-time environment. Statistics that have never been available before such as shot types, shot coordinates, turnover details, foul details, violation details, plus/minus, blocks against, complete play-by-play textual descriptions are distributed to STATS’ clients throughout the world.
STATS in-house editorial team and The Associated Press reporter network produce complete editorial game previews and recaps for each NBA game throughout the season.
Nascar
STATS is NASCAR’s technology partner, processing the innovative Loop Data feed live from the race track as well as disseminating the Official Time and Scoring Feed across all of their multi-circuit races.
The new loop data provided to NASCAR by STATS will help fans identify which drivers and teams excel in certain race situations. Along with knowing who won a race, fans and media know how the race was won. With multiple loops now placed at various locations throughout each track, NASCAR will now provide an additional collection of statistics from NASCAR’s three national series. This new data will complement and enhance the current NASCAR statistics that are generated each week.
STATS also created the first ever “NASCAR Box Score,” which provides an expanded look at each race utilizing both standard and loop data in the four prominent categories of Performance, Position, Passes and Laps.
English Premier League
STATS is an official data licensor for the Premier League and Football League in England and the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League around the globe. Additionally, STATS is the exclusive provider for the United States, Canada and Japan.
STATS distributes complete statistical information in real-time to broadcast, print, online and other media outlets. STATS delivers editorial previews and reports for every match throughout the season and detailed statistical data includes remarkable touch information such as passes, dribbles and shots by each player that possessed the ball.
Asian Football Confederation
STATS is the official data source for top Asian Football Confederation (AFC) events.
STATS provides live match and player statistics to broadcast, print, online and other media outlets for key AFC events including the AFC Asian Cup™ 2011 – Asia’s top sporting event, the 2009 AFC Champions League – the region’s premier club competition, and the Asian qualifying rounds for the FIFA World Cup 2010 and Olympic Games 2012 respectively.
STATS’ in-depth data coverage includes a complete package of player and team information including fixtures, tables, line-ups, substitutions, player biographical information, goals, assists shots on and off target, fouls, bookings, offsides, corners and crosses.
STATS’ in-house editorial team writes weekly articles for the AFC highlighting key matches and events. In addition, STATS supplies a data feed back to the AFC for use on its league site and provides a customisable Flash match tracker which delivers in-depth statistical data to provide users the ultimate online viewing experience, including animations for every goal, substitutions and booking.
UEFA
STATS is the Official Motion Tracking Data Partner for UEFA Champions League. Working with deltatre, UEFA’s major strategic partner for the provision of information technology services, STATS’ unique real-time motion data is integrated with deltatre’s result system to enhance UEFA broadcasts. Player tracking content is also available live during matches on UEFA.com.
STATS has leveraged its revolutionary SportVU technology to collect real-time motion and positioning data for the ball and participants (players and referee) within the playing field for every game in the UEFA Champions League season.
SportVU motion tracking provides UEFA, through deltatre integration, a powerful lineup of unique performance data, highlighting among other things, shot distance, player speed, distance covered by the players and teams and positional heat maps, all in real time. These next generation statistics provide deeper game insights. All aspects of the data collection process are completely non-intrusive to game action.
Canadian Football League
STATS is the exclusive data source and licensing partner for the Canadian Football League. STATS enjoys worldwide rights to market, license and distribute CFL data and real-time scoring. STATS offers CFL play-by-play and in-game box-score feeds in addition to leader boards, roster updates, standings and real-time updates from across the league.
Indy Racing League
STATS has partnered with the Indy Racing League to deliver the official fantasy solution for incycar.com. STATS developed a custom pick’em style contest that allows participants to select a new lineup of drivers each race week. However, participants are limited to the number of times they are able to select each driver throughout the season so they must utilize the their selections of top drivers wisely. STATS provides turnkey services for the game including design, development, operation and customer service.