 StatMuse logo | |
Type of site | Sports statistics |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| URL | statmuse |
StatMuse Inc. is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2014. The company maintains its own eponymous website where it hosts a database of sports statistics.
Friends Adam Elmore and Eli Dawson founded the company in 2014. [1] [2] In email correspondence to the Springfield News-Leader , Elmore detailed that he and Dawson, fans of the National Basketball Association (NBA), were compelled to create StatMuse after they realized there was not a place online they could search "lebron james most points" [ sic ] and quickly get a result "showing his highest scoring games." [3] As a startup, the company's goal was to utilize a type of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP) for sports. [1]
In 2015, the company was part of the second group of startups accepted into the Disney Accelerator program. [4] The company ultimately received the backing of The Walt Disney Company, Techstars, Allen & Company, the NFL Players Association, Greycroft and NBA Commissioner David Stern. [5] As part of their partnership with Disney, StatMuse signed a content deal with ESPN (owned by Disney) to provide stats content on social media and television during the 2015–16 NBA season. [6]
Initially, the company only had stats available for the NBA, but eventually expanded to provide stats for the other major North American sports leagues. [1] The company's initial demographic was players of fantasy sports, but eventually expanded to target general sports fans as well. [1] StatMuse offers responses to user queries in the voices of sports-related public figures. [2] Dawson shared with VentureBeat that StatMuse brings people in and record them saying different words and phrases. [2] These celebrity voices were made accessible through Google's Google Assistant service, Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant, and Amazon's Echo devices. [7]
The company launched its phone app in September 2017. [5] Through the app, users can query StatMuse's sports statistics database using their own natural language. [8] Upon the launch of the phone app, Fitz Tepper of TechCrunch wrote that: "The technology isn't perfect – some of the pauses between words are a bit awkward – making it clear that some phrases is being stitched together on the fly. But this is the exception, and on the whole most responses sound pretty good." [8] StatMuse plug-ins for Slack and Facebook Messenger were also made, providing text-based sports stats. [7] In 2019, StatMuse received investment from the Google Assistant Investment program. [7]
The service launched a premium option dubbed StatMuse+ in May 2023, offering options that had previously been included for free, such as unlimited searches and full results in data tables.[ citation needed ] The premium version also included early access to new features and a personalized searched history, as well as not having ads. [9] It was met with mixed feedback.[ citation needed ]
In January 2024, the service launched a Premier League version of the website dubbed StatMuse FC. [10] It is planned to introduce more leagues in the website. [11]
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