Petar Barzev Undergraduate Dissertation 2016/17

SkyBet: Real-Time Football Team Performance Monitoring

Supervised by P.McMinn

Abstract

Nowadays, people use web applications every day to aid their personal life and work. One specific area where web applications are particularly relevant is the entertainment and sports industry. Modern web technologies provide facilities for real-time sport statistics tracking to the public and thus enhance online entertainment and betting businesses.

The objective of this project is to create a lightweight HTML5 in-play football monitoring application running on a SkyBet analyst's iPad. The application's aim is to gather, utilise and store statistics about football teams and players. This data could be potentially used by the company to improve their current sports betting systems. Thus, this project explores viable cutting-edge technologies and aims to build a fast, reliable and user-friendly application to perform in-play football monitoring.