Powering Smarter Decisions in Basketball
Tracking Data And Performance Insights From The NBA, NCAA and Top International Competitions.
Our AI-powered technology uses broadcast video to capture player and ball tracking data, events and markings for current and historical seasons at scale: delivering critical contextual perspective for player scouting, modelling and performance analysis.
For player scouting, tracking a player’s position and speed at 25 fps delivers insight that goes beyond the boxscore, allowing deeper evaluation of international and collegiate players.
Dynamic Events
Access advanced in-game on-ball and off-ball actions like pick and rolls, handovers, screens, isolations, drives, and closeouts to help decode team tactics and enhance player analysis.
Events
Advanced Play-by-Play Events capture key offensive and defensive actions - dribbles, passes, shots, fouls, rebounds, and more, enriched by SkillCorner Tracking Data and Models, to provide advanced insights on every possession and every player performances.
XY Tracking Data
XY tracking for all players plus XYZ ball tracking - captured from a single broadcast feed. Off-camera player positions are predicted using deep learning, enabling a continuous tracking model, full custom analysis and integration with your workflows.
Advanced Player, Team & Opposition Analysis
Shooting
Understand every scoring attempt in context. This includes detailed breakdowns of shot type, location, and distance, as well as the positioning of defenders at the moment of release. We also measure release times and identify assist opportunities - helping you evaluate decision-making and scoring efficiency under pressure.
Passing and Possession
Get a complete picture of an entire possession, including chances. We track every pass, distance, and outcome, while also mapping defender locations relative to both passer and receiver. Possession data is captured at both team and player level, allowing you to monitor flow, usage, and involvement with precision.
Defence
Analyse how teams disrupt plays and force mistakes. Our defensive tracking includes matchup assignments, reactions to screen events, and key outcomes such as rebounds, fouls, and turnovers. This allows you to assess defensive structure, individual effort, and how possession changes are generated.
Strategy
Reveal the timing and positioning behind in-game strategy. We log all screen types and their locations to help decode offensive setups, while also capturing the precise timing of key events - giving full context to team patterns, tempo shifts, and momentum changes throughout the game.
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Tracking data has transformed basketball analysis over the last decade in the NBA. Having tracking data for the NCAA and all major international leagues will help us make the most educated decisions regarding the NBA Draft and international free agency.
FAQ
Front offices, coaching staffs, and analytics departments use SkillCorner data across scouting, recruiting, game preparation, and player development. Because our tracking is generated from broadcast video, teams can evaluate players and opponents in leagues where they have no in-arena tracking of their own, from the NBA and NCAA to EuroLeague and international competitions.
With data on more than 130,000 games dating back to the 2017-18 season, staffs can also look at multi-year trends, track a player's development over time, and build historical comparisons. Teams use it to build scouting reports, identify recruiting and transfer targets, benchmark players against league peers, and answer specific questions their own data can't. For example, the University of Florida Sports Analytics Lab used SkillCorner tracking and event data to build a model that classifies offensive crashing on every shot, which now feeds directly into Florida's scouting reports.
SkillCorner provides three core layers of basketball data:
- XY tracking data: x/y coordinates for all ten players and the ball, captured from broadcast footage.
- Event data: the core actions of every game, such as shots, passes, rebounds, and turnovers, synced to the tracking data so each action has full spatial context.
- Dynamic Events: our contextualized event data, which goes well beyond box score stats. Built on top of tracking, Dynamic Events capture what players do on and off the ball, along with the context around each action, such as player positioning, spacing, and pressure, so teams can understand how a play developed and not just how it ended.
Together, these layers let teams see not only what happened on a play, but where every player was and how the action developed.
Traditional box scores capture outcomes. SkillCorner data captures the context behind them. Teams can measure off-ball movement, spacing, shot quality, defensive positioning, rebounding effort, and passing value, then compare players on a similar basis across leagues and levels. That makes it easier to separate production that's driven by role or teammates from skills that will translate to a new system, which is especially valuable when evaluating transfers, draft prospects, and international players.
SkillCorner's basketball data covers the full range of actions that make up every possession, from core box score events to the on- and off-ball actions captured by Dynamic Events. Because every event is linked to tracking data, each one carries the positions of all players and the ball at that moment. Coverage includes:
Box Outs | Chance Players | Transition Roles | Chances | Touches
Closeouts | Shots | Cuts | Posts | Drives | Possessions | Fouls
Picks | Free Throws | Physical Speed Load | Game Data | Passes
Handoffs | Off-Ball Screens | Isolations | Matchups
This depth is what powers analysis like shot quality, assist value, screen and drive defense, and offensive rebounding behavior.
Yes. In addition to metadata delivered via API or file for teams with their own analytics infrastructure, SkillCorner offers a web platform where staff can explore player and team data, build comparisons, and filter by league, season, and position without writing code. Through our video partnership with Xeatre, data can also be linked to game footage, so staff can move directly from a number to the clips behind it.