Creating a data and analytics platform for Premier League​ | Firemind
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Creating a data and analytics platform for Premier League​

Industry: Media & Entertainment

About

The Premier League, celebrated as the most competitive and compelling football league in the world, oversees England’s top clubs and has a loyal global fan base.

The Premier League is the organising body of the Premier League football division, with responsibility for the competition, its rule book and the centralised broadcast and commercial rights.​

Challenge

With such an extensive and ever adapting amount of data across matches, player stats and livebroadcasts, Premier League were met with the many challenges of managing such data in acontrollable manner.​

Solution

What started as a simpler project to enhance an analytical and business intelligence platformquickly scaled into a modernised user-controlled reporting and analytical platform. Providingvisualisation of data for the Premier League, the member Clubs and official stakeholders.​

Results

The Firemind data team and developers worked closely with Premier League to build not only a datastore that could match their expectations for player statistics but was also designed with the user in mind, providing an easy to navigate and customisable experience, based on the teams and manager access.

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  • Datastore aligned with expectations for player statistics and user-centred design
  • Easy-to-navigate, customisable experience for teams and managers

We have received outstanding service from Firemind. The knowledge base is of a very high standard and the customer support has been quick, fluid and extremely personable.

Steve PalmerHead of Data Solutions, Premier League

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