Capacio and PlaymakerAI Initiate Collaboration to Create Unique Football Insights
Capacio and PlaymakerAI have entered into a partnership agreement, which entails integrating Capacio's unique cognitive tests and profiling into PlaymakerAI's service offerings. The collaboration enhances customer analysis through research-based digital tools, enabling profiling of entire teams as well as targeted individual profiling that improves understanding and prediction of performance.
Since its establishment in 2016, PlaymakerAI has been driving football analysis forward and has been instrumental in developing several widely accepted metrics for better performance prediction. Capacio, a Swedish company founded by researchers in cognitive science, has conducted world-leading research on the cognitive functions of football players. Together, we are taking a significant step forward, offering football stakeholders a deeper analysis. That not only explains performance but predicts it. This provides stakeholders in the football world with a sharper tool to understand the factors behind abilities and successful behavior, enabling them to optimize and tailor tactics, training, and recruitment.
Capacio's co-founders are leaders in brain research and were the first in the world to demonstrate the power and precision of evidence-based cognitive tests in understanding capacity, talent, and potential. They chose football, the world's largest sport, precisely because of its inherent dynamics, and successfully predicted on-field performance with remarkable accuracy, garnering massive global media attention. For the first time, they were able to map and describe the brain functions required in football and many other sports, such as executive functions, which are key to understanding what game intelligence is.
“In collaboration with Capacio, we can jointly analyze football data and cognition, thus creating unique and even more precise predictive indices for our customers. We look forward to developing football and, in the long run, other sports together," says Daniel Setterwall, CEO of PlaymakerAI.
For coaches, it offers the opportunity for an improved individual coaching as well as better player matching and development, benefiting both the player and the team. The combination of data provides a better understanding of a player's natural strengths and weaknesses and how they relate to their respective roles on the field. Lastly, for players within a team, it offers the opportunity to see and understand their teammates' strengths and weaknesses, thereby optimizing collaboration.
"With Capacio's digital testing platform, we have made world-leading brain research available to measure cognitive capacity. Our vision is to democratize these tools so that anyone who loves football can better understand their profile and optimize their choices of position, training efforts, and more," says Anders Norén, co-founder and CEO of Capacio. I also want to emphasize that regardless of the initial purpose of the testing, individuals will benefit from this deeper self-insight throughout their life journey, in various situations, positions, and conditions. As we often say, 'Cognition is everything; without our brain, we are just a lump of flesh.'
Want to learn more about how analyzing the combination of football data and cognitive player data can provide unique football insights? Contact us at info@playmaker.ai!
About Capacio
Swedish company Capacio was founded by some of the leading researchers in cognitive science, conducting world-leading research on the cognitive functions of football players, which has resulted, among other things, in the book [Brain ball]. Capacio has developed tests based on clinical research in cognitive science, which, in simple terms, focuses on understanding a person's ability to do the right things at the right time and in the right place. These tests can be used independently or as a sharp and in-depth complement to other tools.
Contact:
Anders Norén
CEO and Co-founder, Capacio
Anders.noren@capacio.com
Cell: +46706 87 87 14
www.capacio.com
About PlaymakerAI
PlaymakerAI was founded in 2016 with the goal of enabling clubs to utilize the methods that have achieved tremendous success, such as Brentford and FC Midtjylland. We aimed to take the highest level of football data analysis, further develop it, and make it useful for a range of stakeholders in football: coaches, sports directors, agents, and players. Our philosophy is based on reducing bias and evaluating performance more effectively by applying modern AI methods to large amounts of relevant data to consistently make better decisions over time.
Contact
Daniel Setterwall
CEO, Football Analytics Sweden AB / PlaymakerAI
daniel@playmaker.ai
Cell: +46 760 51 95 48
www.playmaker.ai
