SP Solutions Power FIBA U19 World Championships

FIBA LiveStats, SportingPulse’s courtside statistics recording system for basketball, has played a big role in the management and delivery of the FIBA Under 19 World Basketball Championships for Men and Women.

For the first time, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has used FIBA LiveStats as the official software collection and webcast tool for a world championship event, and the results have been tremendous according to SportingPulse CEO Nick Maywald.

“We’ve delivered millions of livestats web pages to tens of thousands of users worldwide” said Maywald.

Not only has the product been used to deliver live webcast, but SportingPulse also brought forward a critical piece of development to allow the solution to feed data to the host TV broadcaster for the event.  Sky TV New Zealand have taken all official data for the tournament from FIBA LiveStats, with FIBA LiveStats delivering up to the second match data including game scores, and player and team statistics.

“This has delivered great results for both FIBA and Sky TV” said Maywald.  “A dedicated group of New Zealand Basketball volunteers were trained to use the software, and they have helped us deliver a world class service to TV."

SportingPulse have been active in supporting the event on the ground with Senior Accounts Manager Matthew Cowling in New Zealand and Thailand for both the setup and early stages of the tournaments.  Cowling assisted volunteers to test the solution on site and worked with TV and media partners.

FIBA Head of Technology Wolfram Klug said FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, was delighted with the performance of FIBA LiveStats.  “While only launched a year ago, FIBA LiveStats has already been taken up by many leagues around the world, and it has performed perfectly for these championships. “

“It is an exciting product, and being freely available, means it can be used at all levels of basketball, from elite right through to grassroots competitions.”

FIBA LiveStats was launched in July 2008 and is now in use by basketball leagues throughout the world, including professional leagues in Australia, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Europe.  A free-to-use courtside statistics package supplied as part of the FIBA Digital project, any one can download and use the application, whether they wish to webcast games on behalf of a league, or simply for their own social games.  The product has been downloaded over 8000 times since it was launched.

The FIBA Digital program is a free-to-use suite of solutions developed by SportingPulse for Basketball Federations and leagues throughout the world. Encompassing membership and competition management, it is a major initiative by FIBA that also provides websites to federations and leagues and is supported by myfiba.com, a sports networking solution that allows users to track their own basketball achievements, as well as communicate with other basketball fans around the world.

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