Using cues from club scouts describing the critical characteristics of players being assessed, Scout Advisor generates curated lists of candidates and summarises each player’s complete set of reports.
Generative AI has proven its applicable relevance in different industries since its inception and has now added the sports industry to its list. An artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Scout Adviser, built on IBM’s ‘watsonx platform, will help the Spanish football team Sevilla FC find new players with AI.
In an announcement released on IBM’s blog, the technology company revealed that Scout Adviser will analyze Sevilla FC’s database of potential recruits. Using natural language processing and foundation models, it will create a list of players it thinks Sevilla should tap based on the team’s needs.
According to IBM, Scout Adviser will look at several factors when evaluating recruits. This includes quantitative data such as height and weight, speed, number of goals or minutes played, and qualitative unstructured data such as the textual analysis in their more than 200,000 scouting reports.
Read more
Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ibm-watsonx-ai-pro-soccer-player-scouting-gig