Zegami Platform Powers the Pirates Draft Decisions
The Pittsburgh Pirates analytics team has decided to use Zegami, a visual data exploration platform company, to enhance their data analysis and decision making process during the June amateur baseball draft.
During the June amateur draft, over 1,200 athletes are chosen by the 30 MLB teams over a three day period. Every team looks to gain an advantage to find that special athlete, especially an under the radar player who can be a game changer on the baseball field.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have invested heavily in player analytics, analyzing data on thousands of players from the college system and around the world to find the best talent available. Results of this analysis must be combined with intangible factors which also need to be considered by the front office team when making a final decision.
A crucial area in this entire process involves communicating the results of the analysis made by the informatics team to decision-makers in the front office. By using Zegami, they can present the results in a way that makes it easy for the front office team to get the key pieces of information quickly.
“Zegami provides an incredibly powerful interface which allows us to search quickly, compare, group, and interrogate player stats at draft time in a way that was just not possible with Excel or other BI solutions,” said Joshua Smith, Data Architect at the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Zegami is a Visual Data Exploration platform that enables one to recognize patterns quickly, analyze information, and find hidden insights by allowing users to search, sort, filter, group and analyze large collections of images and data simply and intuitively.
Visit www.zegami.com/sports-stats for more information on their MLB package of analytic tools. They also provide analytics for Australian Rules Football, the NFL, Formula One Racing and other sports.