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How technology and data are used to help the U.S. Women’s soccer team be more competitive at the London Olympic games.
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The data you know this idea of Bob -- that we've been talking about thinking differently using new numbers to take a team and all that well it's actually happening.
In soccer the sport where advance that's it harder to come by and other sports and we caught up with the United States.
Women's national team on -- way as well to London they'll be defending their Olympic gold medals that it turns out.
This is quite the innovative group when attempted using the newest technology.
Alex -- known -- Olympic -- his baby horse because she jumped just 23 years old.
And she -- like a thoroughbred with their long strides Morgan covers more ground than just about any women's player in the world.
And our coaches have cold hard data that backs that up.
Before each training session after the cleats in the shin guards are in place the players in the US national team put on both the heart rate monitor.
And believe it or not a GPS device that tracks their every move and gives head Coach -- -- in some very valuable information.
-- that I'll open it sometimes and one Dana one -- signed an.
I'm India that -- forget about it but it comes the day after today after today.
Then economists -- to a cult -- -- may be we have to rethink.
I'll I'll tell you that's really hard if I'm the Paulson -- -- -- -- I'm waiting for the numbers to be good and then I show.
And psychology also matters for players who weren't so sure at first how they felt about.
Having Big Brother out there in the training -- he can't hide on the -- marking up -- your dad and now mid fielder have a -- Riley understands it gets -- advantage.
I think everybody's trying to get an edge nowadays and the competition is so tight you are looking -- her you know -- that little bit that will push you.
Above your opponent so I think that -- notch technology is advancing.
There's more ways to kind of get that.
-- -- and any game like soccer where movement is constant.
It's hard sometimes to measure success.
You have the obvious stats like goals scored receives made.
But this data provides coaches with more advanced metrics.
What's happening out there -- touches on the ball how many times do you find the outside -- how many times -- she filed the sentiment.
Because in order to dictate the temple and you need -- Apple -- and the movement basketball tell you concentrate on certain things.
If the numbers and Goldman would have to think long is this the right thing -- -- So may we tweak it a little -- In order to to get out the most -- the team.
She's been she's been getting the most out of them all right pretty interesting stuff the women had to London and the Olympics that's the number one ranked team in the -- -- something they're doing incessantly work.
