Stats Perform will collect and distribute data and player statistics from CONMEBOL competitions for licensed sportsbooks, as part of a new deal which sees it become the exclusive official data provider for the South American Football Confederation. Under the multi-year agreement, Stats Perform will exclusively collect and distribute official data for CONMEBOL men, women and U20 competitions including CONMEBOL Copa …
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Stats Perform has advocated the International Betting Integrity Association’s (IBIA) call for sports data and betting stakeholders to work together and form a ‘global best practice model’. This week, IBIA Chief Executive Khalid Ali urged for deeper data-provider collaboration to protect all sports against future threats. In his statement, Ali detailed that the global pandemic had illustrated the need for …
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Stats Perform has significantly expanded its betting-related content to help bookmaker clients navigate lockdown complexities, facing the global downturn in live sports content. The sports-tech innovation studio detailed that it will amplify its Watch&Bet service for bookmakers by adding new esports and PDC Darts programming. Securing a partnership with leading pro-esports organisation BLAST, Watch&Bet will showcase the popular BLAST CS:GO …
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Sports betting integrity has become even more prominent as smaller leagues, such as the Belarusian Premier League, receive high scale attention due to the limitation of live-sports. However, in order to prevent these small scale tournaments from being susceptible to match fixing Andrew Ashenden, Chief Commercial Officer at Stats Perform, has called for every sector in the industry to work …
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Ahead of his attendance at the Stats Perform booth (C3) at the SBC Digital Summit (today and Thursday), we sat down with Duncan Alexander from the Stats Perform sports data team. Alexander explained how he and his fellow statisticians support marketing and content teams, as well as more on his search for the perfect sports insight and the new Opta …
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Major League Soccer (MLS) has moved to expand its data and integrity capacities by confirming long-term technology partner Stats Perform as lead data rights distributor, for media, betting and broadcast industries. Updating stakeholders, the MLS confirms a new ‘comprehensive agreement’ with Stats Perform utilising the data management systems of Runningball, OPTA and further integrity provisions as the exclusive rights holders to …
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We spoke to Andrew Ashenden, Chief Betting Officer at Stats Perform, about why VQ – a new API service already live for NFL and NBA player performance lines – is boosting the betting experience for punters and solving a previous pricing problem for operators. SBC: In the simplest terms, what is VQ? AA: VQ is Stats Perform’s advanced player …
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Collaboration amongst stakeholders in the global sports integrity landscape is universally accepted as being vital in the fight against match-fixing and corruption writes Nick Iliffe, Integrity Intelligence Manager at Stats Perform. Attend any sports integrity conference and you will probably hear someone mention the need for collaboration within the first 15 minutes of a presentation. Yet what is often discussed …
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Stats Perform has secured a new partnership with specialist risk consultancy Control Risks which will see the duo work together to deliver comprehensive sports integrity solutions to the market. Under the terms of the new partnership rights holders, international federations and governing bodies will be able to utilise Control Risks’ global investigative capabilities to identify instances of corruption and match-fixing. …
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Stats Perform has demonstrated its commitment to both French and Turkish football after extending its current partnership with host broadcaster, BeIN, to broadcast matches from the French Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) and the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). As part of the partnership extension, Stats Perform has struck a five-year deal with the LFP for the rights to global betting …
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