Title: Big Data driven Esports strategy
 1Big Data driven Esports strategy
- https//datasportsgroup.com/
2The wonders of Big Data are visible across the 
industry which has crossed the barriers of 
boundaries that it was bound to earlier. Big data 
offers a huge thrust forward to how we originally 
did things. Its impact is visible in traditional 
sports betting as well. We have harnessed the 
power of data analytics as well as hybrid cloud 
technology to change the foundation of our 
strategy. Long gone are the days where the 
strategy was solely depended on a few human 
intellectuals but now machines are trained to 
study past game and performance which help in 
revising strategy at the speed of lighting. Even 
in the Esports industry, Big data is used for new 
innovative ways of thinking and surprising the 
world in the process. Today Esports industry has 
grown tremendously, an article in business 
Insider suggests the industries estimate to be 1 
billion in revenue in 2019 which might increase 
in the future at an unprecedented rate of 26.7. 
 3The industrys potential has been realized by 
investors, advertisement agencies, and media 
firms as well, who has spearheaded the growth of 
Esports in the modern world. Looking at facts 
alone in 2017, the International Dota 2 
Championships had a combined prize pool of 24 
million. Hosted in front of 17,459 people, but 
the online viewership crossed 5mn audience. The 
cosmic growth in esports popularity can be traced 
to extremely detailed competitive games. To get 
the point across lets take one more example when 
Overwatch League debuted, 415,000 people watched 
the game online on its debut night where the 
prize pool was announced at 3.5 million. With 
games like League of Legends, Overwatch, 
Fortnite, and Super Smash Bros the industry is 
expected to reach 3 billion dollars by 2022.  
 4Now as the industry grows so does the competition 
with it and specific esports data helps in 
optimizing the gameplay. The sure shot way to 
push past competition is revamping your strategy 
at every game and esports API allows you to do 
that with minimum disruption. Any competition 
requires a foundation of strong strategy and data 
allows you to do just that. The APIs help 
synthesize data from past matches in a single 
interface which can be analyzed further to derive 
results. 
 5The matches today are not just won based on 
talent, coaches, and luck, a lack of good 
strategy can doom all the other hard work. 
 6The beauty of esports is the matches can be 
recorded, re-watched and data can be mapped 
correctly, according to once convenience. The 
current requirement is also of an unbiased 
database to base strategy on. Technology 
advancement has enabled us to create pre-game 
strategies, post-game analysis, and player 
specific training schedule all with the help of 
data analysis. Nowadays a plethora of choices 
exists while choosing esports data 
providers earlier there were but a few options. 
Todays world help teams record scrims, actual 
matches to analyses that and develop a successful 
strategy.  
 7Esports broadcaster and analyst Harry Thomas goes 
as far as to say that in 10 years the data 
analysis industry would be infused with esports 
that we will have heat maps, eye tracking, and 
more such innovative tools which can help in 
strategy building. Realizing the importance of 
data in todays world, many websites have evolved 
that provide access to player stats and match 
stats in detail, but it is available in the 
descriptive format only. Such data would require 
further analysis which will consume more effort 
and time, and thus many specialized gaming 
analytics firms have popped up who use more 
advanced tools of analysis providing data in a 
digestible format. 
 8This data-based machine learning now serves as a 
support to human intellectuals serving as a guide 
to improve play with higher chances of success. 
In the Sports Analytics market, many players have 
discovered the key to success for sports 
franchises by quantifying the player performance 
for better analysis. Lets take the example of 
League of Legends we can have player centric 
stats across areas like farming, teamplay, and 
consistency. With access to Gamer Performance 
Index which serves as a player rating tool for 
better team selection can be done. As Geoffrey 
Moore says Without big data, you are blind and 
deaf and in the middle of a freeway. The power 
of data is like an iceberg with an untapped 
potential floating underneath and its power is 
realized by game organizers like ESL which hosts 
many tournaments throughout the year and they 
even own a data dedicated team that helps in 
coming up with ways to enhance the tournaments 
and engage more audience.  
 9The digital nature of Esports makes it possible 
for Cloud computing and data analytics to infuse 
itself to the very core of the industry which 
traditional sports do not allow, giving access to 
a constant flow of rich data which is used to 
build reliable APIs and thus changed the whole 
course of the game. 
 10There exist many sports data providers in the 
market, but amongst them all Data Sports 
Group provides access to data pertaining to a 
host of Esports like Overwatch, rainbow six, 
League of Legend, and more. The fast and reliable 
nature of their APIs makes them the ideal choice 
in this category. The Unique combination of live 
and historical data enables users to test drive 
their strategy and modify it as well. With a 
special Esports Pack with access to major 
competition, helps to integrate the data quickly 
with ease. DSG constantly endeavors to provide 
both quality and quantity in the data thus keeps 
increasing its coverage with time to stay 
competitive. 
 11Contact US
- Emai -sales_at_datasportsgroup.com 
- Phone - 1 (704) 964-6859 
- Address - 2600 Kinmere Dr 
- City  Gastonia 
- State - North Carolina 
- PIN  28056 
- Country - USA