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  • SF Giants social media fan storms at AT&T Park

    The SF Giants social media fan storms at AT&T Park have helped the team take a 2-0 lead in the World Series best of seven series. I spoke with their Social Media guy, Bryan Srabian, on Thursday about the Giants social media during the 2012 World Series and how their organizational focus in adopting this…

  • THE Sports Techie Online Community

    THE Sports Techie Online Community. THE Sports Techie Online Community is 3,000 – 1,500 – 500. What does that mean? Those are the statistics that make up the social media numbers of our engaged Sports Techie online community. Sports Techie today consists of my web site blog, plus 3,000 Twitter friends, 1,500 Facebook page Likes,…

  • Smartest Spenders in Sports Rankings by Bloomberg Businessweek

    The second annual Smartest Spenders in Sports (SSS) rankings for this past season are out by Bloomberg Businessweek and they offer up some interesting blog content and insight about whether Professional sports teams burn through big money wisely. The ranking determines how well the 122 franchises in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB spend their…

  • Bloomberg Sports and L.A. Angels Partner on Player Evaluation Solution

    Bloomberg Sports continues to be a leading innovator of sports technology, this time together with the Los Angeles Angels. By working with 26 of the 30 Major League Baseball Clubs, Bloomberg Sports has developed a nearly standardized player evaluation System, and accompanying analytics tools, that are completely customizable for the Angels to begin using as…

  • Fifty Thousand Sports Techie Tweets

    Fifty Thousand Sports Techie Tweets. That is right, 50,000 tweets as THE Sports Techie at @sportstechieNET on Twitter. I decided to write this blog about what the future might hold for Sports Techie at tweets number 100K, 500K and 1 Million. First, a recap of what getting to 50K was like from here in Seattle.…

  • Bloomberg Sports is integrating with Windows Phone

    Bloomberg Sports is integrating with Windows Phone by Microsoft to develop Fantasy sports mobile apps and more. The “MLB Front Office” Draft Kit 2012 as well as the Front Office Trade Analyzer 2012 (live in April) for Windows Phone will be up first for fantasy baseball fans to use this season. This exciting news out…

  • Front Office 2012 is an Upgrade

    Spring Training has started and the want and will to win a MLB fantasy baseball league for many a Sports Techie is fast approaching. Fantasy analytics is becoming a new major sportsbiz because of tools like Front Office which was the top paid fantasy baseball tool for most of 2011. Sports Techie wrote about Bloomberg…

  • Hail to the Sports Techie NFL

    Hail to the Sports Techie NFL. They had instant replay challenge technology and rules integrated into the game of Professional football in order to assist their officials in getting the call right during the 2012 New York Giants vs. San Francisco 49ers, NFC Championship game played at Candlestick Park stadium. Picture via FoxSports replay: At…

  • Cubs and Bloomberg Sports To Create New Analytics Solution

    Major League Baseball took another technological leap forward with the new deal to build a customized analytics Solution between Bloomberg Sports and the Chicago Cubs. This sportbiz partnership was formed to design a state of the art player evaluation system for the Cubs’ Baseball Operations Department. Bloomberg Sports has been delivering Solutions to MLB teams,…

  • The NFL needs goal line technology worse than FIFA

    The NFL needs goal line technology worse than FIFA, Sports Techie. As much as I love the NFL, they must be called out for not having goal line technology in place at a bare minimum in order to assist the officials in getting touchdown calls correct. Yes, the argument that if you implement it at…