COVID has placed almost an immediate haul to every and each of the sports event that you can ever imagine. The sports industry has been forced to think hard and deep on their stragegy to move forward. The broadcast of sports becomes a hotter than ever topic.
Here is a summary of the latest sports news and information for the past month april 2020: A quick summary, with some details below
Tennis: French Open postponed until September; Wimbledon has been canceled
NCAA BB: Men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments canceled
NCAA FB: All team activities are suspended for ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Notre Dame, MAC, Pac-12 and SEC. Spring games are canceled for ACC, Big Ten, Notre Dame, AAC and MAC.
NBA: Season suspended indefinitely
WNBA: Season postponed indefinitely
NHL: Season suspended indefinitely
MLS: Season suspended; target return date of May 10
MLB: Spring training canceled; season postponed indefinitely
NFL: Owners meetings canceled; draft still scheduled for April 23-25 but public events in Las Vegas canceled
XFL: Season suspended
AFL: Season suspended, AFLW season canceled
Boxing: All sanctioned events are suspended indefinitely
MMA: UFC 249, scheduled for April 18, has been canceled
Champions League: Play is suspended
Europa League: Play is suspended
Premier League: Season suspended until at least mid-May
UEFA Euro 2020: Postponed until summer 2021
Copa America: Postponed until summer 2021
NWSL: Season postponed indefinitely; training suspended until May 5
PGA Tour: Some events canceled; plan is to resume at Colonial on June 11
NASCAR: Races postponed through early May: Texas Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Richmond Raceway, Talladega Superspeedway and Dover International Speedway. NASCAR’s return weekend is tentatively scheduled for Martinsville Speedway on May 7-9
IndyCar: The 104th running of the Indianapolis 500 has been postponed until Aug. 23
Masters: Postponed to Nov. 9-15
2020 Olympic Games: Postponed until summer 2021
PGA Championship: Postponed to Aug. 3-9
NCAA: Recruiting suspension in effect through April 15
Kentucky Derby: Moved from first Saturday in May to first Saturday in Septemberhttps://theathletic.com/1669234/2020/04/16/covid-19-and-sports-latest-news-and-information-updated/
This paper has a great summary of the recommendations systems that are fittting the sports. It is a Phd disseration topic in an University in Europe
They investigate which recommendation approach or combination of approaches that can recommend the most interesting content for each individual user of the sports video application Forzify. Three approaches turn out to be the best suited: item-based collaborative filtering, model-based collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. Details can be followed in below link:
industry:http://home.ifi.uio.no/paalh/students/SimenRosteOdden.pdf