MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston on Friday and Saturday. “There are some very smart people and they can’t beat a computer [IBM’s Watson] when it comes to one variable,” says Tarek Kamil, founder of WhatIfSports.com and an executive at InfoMotion Sports Technologies. “How is a coach supposed to keep up with a computer when you’re talking about 10 players on a [basketball] court?” he says. “Fifty years from now, we’re going to laugh about how we used to give coaches this much responsibility,” he says.”]
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