The Betting Innovation Centre, a joint venture from Stats Perform and Sporting Solutions, has launched its first B2B product set. Opta BetBuilder Plus has been developed for the upcoming World Cup, as well as other football competitions, seeking to ‘unlock the true potential’ of player props and same-game betting for both operators and bettors. The product aims to ‘fill the …
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Stats Perform and Sporting Solutions to debut Betting Innovation Centre
Stats Perform and Sporting Solutions will work together to explore and develop new B2B products with the launch of the “Betting Innovation Centre”. The two companies believe that the new Betting Innovation Centre will connect pricing and content at scale, allowing partners to “unlock the true potential of popular betting experiences like player propositions and bet builders”. Shane Gannon, SVP …
Read More »Inside Stats Perform’s tennis betting revolution
Tennis betting markets powered by an umpire generated data feed have met the needs of betting operators for a long period of time, but as demands for more entertaining betting markets increase, the provision of the data that fuels those richer experiences must evolve as well, Shane Gannon, Senior Vice President of Stats Perform told an audience at SBC Summit Barcelona, SBC’s flagship event in 2021. “Stats Perform was awarded the …
Read More »Sporting Solutions to use Stats Perform WTA data for in-play tennis pricing
Sporting Solutions’ customers will gain access to fully automated pricing and risk management solutions for in-play tennis, with official data for the WTA Tour supplied by Stats Perform. Last month, Stats Perform acquired the exclusive rights to distribute umpire data for its tour from 2021-2026. Using this data, Sporting Solutions will supply in-play pricing for approximately 80 tournaments held annually …
Read More »Andy Wright – Sky Bet – The increasing influence of player props
Team and players statistics are playing an increasingly integral role within the global sports wagering sphere, with the changing role of fans and the rising need for a deeper level of data seemingly having a direct knock-on effect. With a major change being undertaken in recent years, sports analytics firm Opta are one of the driving forces behind sports data …
Read More »Betting on Football delivers blueprint for player props perfection
Perform Group and Sky Bet will join forces at this week’s Betting on Football (20-23 March) to expose what’s changed to drive the boom in betting on player and team stats. Featuring SVP of Perform Betting Shane Gannon, Sky Bet Head of Trading Andy Wright and Opta Chief Analyst Duncan Alexander, ‘Opta and Sky Bet’s blueprint for player props perfection’ …
Read More »Opta and Sky Bet bring football stats into the fan conversation
Three astonishing things happened in the Premier League on 4 March 2018. Firstly, Manchester City broke the record for most passes in a match. Secondly, City’s German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan broke the records for most touches, most passes and most completed passes. But perhaps most astonishing of all was the number of international broadcasters, newspapers and social media posts highlighting …
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