StatMuse
 StatMuse logo | |
Type of site | Sports statistics |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| URL | statmuse |
StatMuse Inc. is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2014. The company maintains its own eponymous website where it hosts a database of sports statistics.
History
Two friends[a] founded the company in 2014. As a startup, the company's goal was to utilize a type of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP) for sports.[1] In 2015, the company was part of the second group of startups accepted into the Disney Accelerator program.[2] The company ultimately received the backing of The Walt Disney Company, Techstars, Allen & Company, the NFL Players Association, Greycroft and NBA Commissioner David Stern.[3]
Initially, the company only had stats available for the National Basketball Association (NBA), but eventually expanded to provide stats for the other major North American sports leagues.[1] The company launched its phone app in September 2017.[3] Through the app, users can query StatMuse's sports statistics database using their own natural language.[4] Upon its launch, Fitz Tepper of TechCrunch wrote that: "The technology isn't perfect – some of the pauses between words are a bit awkward – making it clear that some phrases is being stitched together on the fly. But this is the exception, and on the whole most responses sound pretty good."[4]
The company has had its sports statistics referenced by sports media websites and publications such as Sports Illustrated,[5] NBC Sports,[6] and The Score.[7]
Notes
References
- ^ a b Green, Will (June 15, 2016). "Meet the Startup That Wants You to See Sports Stats in a Whole New Way". Fortune. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ Tepper, Fitz (July 9, 2015). "Disney's Startup Accelerator Enters Its Sophomore Year With A New Batch Of Companies". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ a b Fitzpatrick, John (September 7, 2017). "NFLPA Announces Strategic Investment and Partnership with StatMuse". NFLPA. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ a b Tepper, Fitz (September 7, 2017). "StatMuse lets you ask a sports question and hear a response from an NFL star". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ Eulau, Eric (May 23, 2022). "Lakers: Austin Reaves Led LA in an Important Stat This Season". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ Dierberger, Tom (May 26, 2022). "Steph joins NBA royalty with another Finals trip added to resume". NBC Sports. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ^ Soveta, Jonathan (May 25, 2022). "Tatum wants positionless All-NBA voting after Embiid's 1st-team snub". theScore. Retrieved May 27, 2022.