Sevilla to simplify player recruitment with IBM's artificial intelligence
Spanish football club Sevilla has decided to use IBM's Generative AI platform, watsonx, to assist in player recruitment. As a result of this collaboration, a tool called Scout Advisor has been developed.
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Sevilla football club will use IBM's Generative AI platform, watsonx, to streamline its player recruitment process and gain a competitive advantage. Developed within the framework of this collaboration, the Scout Advisor tool will provide support to the club regarding player selection.
Professional football clubs have become a multi-million dollar industry for scouting and transferring players. Long-term contracts and uncertainty in player performance make it difficult to predict return on investment.
Traditionally, this process has been based on observations made by scouts and data analysis relying on a limited number of easily measurable factors.
The development of artificial intelligence programs offers new possibilities beyond just using large datasets, providing valuable insights from existing data. Sevilla's collaboration with IBM aims to leverage these advantages using the Scout Advisor tool. Through this, the club aims to make more informed and strategic decisions regarding player recruitment.