>I'm wondering why the 15 other teams aren't on board yet. If the price is only 100k, it's nothing to an NBA team. If those other 15 teams don't already have an advanced analytics team in place, then it makes sense not to have the camera until you have a structure in place to make sure of the camera data.
As someone who is on the periphery of working in a professional sport in both analytics and player development, the simple answer is the fact that market forces are comparatively weak here. You have monopolies with a ton of inertia in doing things the same way, plus a lot of the decision-makers are luddites in nature who think the human element is the single most important factor.
Times are changing as the economics of sports tightens and becomes more efficient, but it's not like there are ways to disrupt the market openly. The Dallas Mavericks (Cuban) and the Houston Rockets (Morey) are the ones leading the charge in the NBA, just like the Oakland Athletics (Beane), Cleveland Indians (Shapiro), and Tampa Bay Rays (Friedman) led the charge in MLB.
As someone who is on the periphery of working in a professional sport in both analytics and player development, the simple answer is the fact that market forces are comparatively weak here. You have monopolies with a ton of inertia in doing things the same way, plus a lot of the decision-makers are luddites in nature who think the human element is the single most important factor.
Times are changing as the economics of sports tightens and becomes more efficient, but it's not like there are ways to disrupt the market openly. The Dallas Mavericks (Cuban) and the Houston Rockets (Morey) are the ones leading the charge in the NBA, just like the Oakland Athletics (Beane), Cleveland Indians (Shapiro), and Tampa Bay Rays (Friedman) led the charge in MLB.