Sevilla FC Utilizes IBM’s AI Tool 'Scout Adviser' for Innovative Player Recruitment
Summary:
IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Scout Adviser, will assist the Spanish football club Sevilla FC in identifying new recruits. The platform will comb through Sevilla's database for potential recruits, using a range of quantitative and qualitative metrics. The new AI tool offers a more objective analytical approach than traditional recruitment methods which heavily rely on subjective human observation. Notwithstanding, the club also plans to maintain its reliance on human scouts and analysts. Understanding the potential of AI, Sevilla FC aims to redefine talent identification and decision-making in football.
With its versatility, generative AI continues to make waves across various industries, and recently, it has dipped its toes in the sports industry as well. A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool known as Scout Adviser, which is built upon IBM’s 'watsonx' platform, is set to assist Spanish football club, Sevilla FC, in recruiting new players. According to a blog post by IBM, the tool will sift through Sevilla FC's database of potential prospects. Leveraging natural language processing and foundation models, Scout Adviser is designed to provide a list of potential recruits based on the team's specific requirements.
IBM mentions that multiple factors are taken into account during the evaluation process by Scout Adviser, which includes quantitative data such as a player's height and weight, speed, tally of goals or game time, as well as qualitative unstructured data like text analysis from over 200,000 scouting reports.
The process of recruiting players for elite sports teams, particularly football, involves significant financial outlays, extended contracts, and uncertainties related to performance and return on investment (ROI). Sevilla FC has recognized that traditional player recruitment methods, which often rely on subjective human observation and limited data analysis, are often time-consuming and consider relatively few factors. IBM’s Scout Adviser aims to combine generative AI with existing metrics, bridging the gap between numerical scouting and the complexities of parsing human behaviours, thus enhancing talent identification and decision-making processes for Sevilla FC. However, the club also plans to complement the AI tool with continued reliance on scouts and analysts.
In line with the club scouts' evaluation of critical player characteristics, Scout Adviser curates lists of potential candidates, summarising each player's extensive reports.
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Published At
1/24/2024 4:40:27 PM
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