TrackMan, a leader in ball flight tracking technology, has begun a collaboration with Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland to provide additional information on free kicks and penalties.
TrackMan, a Danish-based company best known for its work in baseball and golf, developed a soccer product that uses an optically-enhanced radar to track the flight time, ball speed, spin rate, distance, and other metrics of a soccer ball. It can also track the height of the opposing wall on free kicks and the margin by which the ball eludes the goalkeeper and avoids the post on penalties. TrackMan can be used in conjunction with cameras for auto-synchronization and data-tied video.
FC Midtjylland, which has won three of the last seven Superliga championships, is known for its hearty embrace of data and analytics. The German national team is reportedly another user of TrackMan’s soccer tool, which is overseen by Jordan Garbutt, who previously led strategic analysis at Hull City and was general manager at Prozone.
