Former Chinese men's basketball, Bayi Men's Basketball Head Coach Wang Fei experienced China's basketball data, "barbaric era", his player era, although the Bayi team in the domestic basketball world invincible, but in addition to scoring, basically can not get other data.

"Thinking back to my time as a player, there was no systematic data support, until I became a coach after the national team to participate in international competitions, and only gradually found that China's basketball in the lack of data. Now I am engaged in youth basketball training so that I understand the importance of basketball data even more. I remember it was 1995, 1996, the Bayi team was in Xi'an Jiaotong University home court, at that time the CBA still did not have any data, so at that time it was two substitutes one person with a piece of paper, one to remember the opponent and one to remember the referee." Wang Fei said.

Because of the lack of data support, Wang Fei forced himself to learn the then very avant-garde software EXCEL, their own statistics, once did not operate well, input data during the day at night and forgot to save, a day of hard work went down the drain.

CBA initial period, the eighty-first team is the absolute king of the league, Liu Yudong, Wang Zhizhi and other eighty-first players are also the absolute mainstay of the national team, Wang Fei said: "know what they are good in what place, not good in what place, especially when you achieve good results, can not be more see the shortcomings, which need to be reflected through the data. "

Bi Zhongchun, a professor at Beijing Sport University and director of the Coaches Committee of the Chinese College Basketball Association, revealed that in today's Chinese college basketball, the work of data collation and video analysis is basically still done by the head coach, and there is still a big gap with the U.S. college basketball team, which has an extremely detailed division of labor and a specially configured video analyst. "In our domestic universities, the configuration of the team is usually just two coaches, and many teams have just one coach, which makes our work on data suffer. The more advanced the technology, the higher the level, the finer the division of labor, the stronger the specialization." Bi Zhongchun said.

The road of data is progressing

Compared with basketball powerhouses like the United States, China's basketball field has not been "informatized" for a long time, and there is still a lot to learn, and the degree of importance attached to the accumulation of data is one of them. Lai Shuangfu, co-founder of Lazy Bear Sports, who has worked as a basketball reporter in the United States for five years, said, "I've been to see a lot of amateur basketball leagues in the United States, and what impresses me the most is that they are very much in place in terms of basic data collection, and the first time I went there about ten years ago, they didn't have an APP that could be managed directly on-line, but the referees and statistics for each game would be retained intact. . After a ball player becomes famous, we have to go back to his most original place to track his statistics, his past coaches are able to send you statistics with historical significance, this kind of emphasis on data is very important."

With the progress of the times, China's basketball practitioners also know more and more to use the hands of the "data" as a tool, in the National Games three-player basketball program and China's three-on-three league, the Chinese Basketball Association has chosen to cooperate with the Olympic basketball data and Internet data. China Basketball Association three-player basketball department minister Chai Wensheng said: "We in the National Games of the four gold medals of all the data is very complete, our colleagues also analyze this data, just came out a research report, so it is particularly intuitive."

Whether it's a professional game or an amateur game, it has become a trend to collect, process, organize and distribute data and video through cloud platforms. Xue Dong, CEO of basketball big data company Bettai Technology, said that compared with the past, the CBA league has made great progress in data analysis, saying, "In terms of statistics, we now have about 150 items in the subsection, which is about 40% higher than before. In the real-time data section, we have added text broadcasts based on game events, shooting data and so on, in addition to some higher-order data. Now all of this data we will capture and analyze and it will be on the CBA official website."

"Informatization" future: the multi-dimensional development of data value

From nothing to something, from rough to fine, China's basketball is "informatization" on the road to stride forward. For the Chinese basketball under the background of big data and internet, the guests also made an outlook.

Wang Fei said, in the process of youth training, fine statistics let the children get more confidence, the children can see their own good side and shortcomings, and can see the direction of progress, which will have an important impact on the future of youth basketball.

Lu Hao, chairman of Zonghui Sports, also said, "For China's basketball to have a big development, and to be able to look for better children with conditions and future potential in terms of youth, there must be the intervention of big data."

With the rapid development of Internet technology, the operating difficulty and technical cost of data analysis is getting lower and lower, and many amateur basketball matches can also realize the accurate statistics of individual data, and the data will also play an important role in youth selection, individual technical progress, team play grinding, technical and tactical design and many other aspects.

For China's basketball "informationization" future challenges, Bi Zhongchun said: "the original problem is that we have video we will not analyze, now the problem is that each country is very sensitive to technical and tactical confidentiality, for example, the Japanese women's basketball team had a half-year period inside the time period did not play! Open, their game video can not be found, so it is very difficult to analyze. So now there is a 'can't find' problem. We are not lagging behind in mobile Internet technology, I still hope that in the next step we can solve the problem of college basketball statistics, CBA teams have already configured scouts or scientific research coaches or video analysts, but most of the CUBA teams do not have them, which is also a huge potential for the future development of China's basketball in the further development of professionalism and professionalism. "