Welcome to Sentient Sports

At Sentient Sports we use our artificial intelligence expertise to drive new insights in the sports industry. We aim to optimise the decision making processes of sports people, teams, governing bodies, leagues and more. We utilise data-drive technologies to help our clients improve their performances both on and off the pitch.  

 

Sports Recruitment 

Fantasy Sports

Using unique simulation and scenario analysis techniques, we provide advanced AI metrics to sports teams to help with their decision making process and add assurance to player acquisition. 

Tactical Analysis

We developed state of the art game theoretic and deep learning approaches to tactical decision making in team sports. This work has been recognised at world leading AI conferences. 

We have designed an AI bot, "SquadGuru", that outperformed more than 5M human players (top 0.7%) in the English Premier League Fantasy Football Tournament. We also have experience in DFS competitions.

Sports Betting

Using our AI expertise and knowledge we are able to design prediction algorithms for team sports games that take into account previously unexplored feature sets that boost accuracy.

 

The Team

We are a team of expert researchers in both the artificial intelligence (AI) and sports analytics domain. We have published research in world-leading AI conferences and shown how AI can be applied to sports to drive new insights as well as presenting novel research challenges to the AI community. We also have experience in creating real-world insights from our research for our clients as well as solving a variety of problems with AI.

Ryan Beal

Ryan is a PhD student at the University of Southampton focusing his research on applications of AI to team sports. He has published a number of papers in this space exploring problems such as valuing teamwork and using game theory to optimise tactical decision making. Ryan is also the organiser of the AI in Team Sports Workshop hosted in New York in 2020. He also spent time working as a data analyst at a big 4 accountancy firm.

Dr. Tim Matthews

Tim is a leading software engineering with many years experience in research and industry. He holds PhD in computer vision and a Masters degree in artificial intelligence both from the University of Southampton. He led the research creating a model using AI techniques to play fantasy football in FPL which was able to beat more than 5M users worldwide. Tim also has 5 years experience working as a software developer building apps across a number of domains.

Prof. Gopal Ramchurn

Gopal is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence, Turing Fellow, and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has won multiple best paper awards for his research and  is a winner of the AXA Research Fund Award for his work on Responsible Artificial Intelligence.  His papers have been cited more than 7000 times and his work has featured in various media including BBC News, New Scientist, Sky News, BBC Click, and Wired.