Sportradar confirm SportsData acquisition

ts and betting-related data suppliers Sportradar have acquired US-based firm SportsData.

Founded in 2010, SportsData provide real-time sports data products covering over 20,000 live events across baseball, basketball, ice hockey, American football, golf, NASCAR and college sports.

The company, who currently partner the likes of Google, Bleacher Report, Facebook and Twitter, will focus on providing an expanded product portfolio to media customers and fantasy sports firms.

Both companies will offer their clients a combined product portfolio including real-time scores, play-by-play data feeds, multi-platform hosted solutions, live odds and virtual games.

Both firms will also continue to offer Sportradar’s fraud detection and prevention system to sports federations, while also entering into data distribution partnerships with the governing bodies.

Sportradar group CEO Carsten Koerl said: “This acquisition marks another important milestone in our endeavour to become the world’s leading global service provider for sports content and information.

“With its state of the art infrastructure and its focus on technology, SportsData perfectly matches our strategy of continuously investing in technology and development to provide our customers with an unrivalled product and service quality.”

Rob Phythian, CEO of Sportsdata, added: “Our shared focus on technology and scalable solutions as well as our complementary product offering, customer portfolio and geographic presence make this a perfect partnership.”