Temporal Junction
Sports & Events Commentary Management
Today sports and events commentators still rely on outdated systems such as information in the form of mounds of printed documents, and sluggish limited note-taking using basic pen and paper. Both present several issues for these fast-paced roles; poor organisation, inaccessibility, slow retrieval of relevant information, weather-proofing and so on.
Sports agency Temporal Junction got in touch with CEMET with the hope to maximise the use of mobile technologies and available data sources to equip commentators with a digital toolkit for preparing, organising, and accessing facts and figures on their upcoming sporting events.
Temporal Junction and CEMET began work on a proof of concept app focussing on professional football but with the foundation for future development to incorporate other sports and events.
Equipping commentators with a digital toolkit
During planning and development Temporal Junction drew on the experiences of their co-founder, Wales’ former international footballer and current top level football commentator, Nathan Blake to provide insight into app requirements and to connect CEMET to a community of sports commentators for front-line feedback.
The result - an app that supports commentators pre-game and live. Instead of combing through numerous websites and collating fractured data, the app, using existing APIs provides a central point for in-depth information and statistics about players, teams, and fixtures within a user-friendly interface that allows for such use-cases as comparing players’ goalscoring records, teams’ home and away forms and much more.
Commentators are also given the ability to quickly capture notes via speech-to-text technology for match-day. And with live in-match commentary they are now provided with relevant match, team and player data and can record and input match events as they happen in a live timeline.
This new and exciting platform will continue to be developed by Temporal Junction with the continued support of CEMET. To find out more about Temporal Junction please check out footprints-sm.com or follow them on X (fka Twitter).
“Because of the work CEMET did for us we are currently looking at funding options for Launch.”