Google Cloud use case – MLB and AFL

If there is one thing that you should know about me, it is that I am a massive sports fan. I am, and I love learning about new sports just as much as following the old ones that I have followed for years.

I have been following Major League Baseball (MLB) for years, and in those years, baseball has always been the sport of analytics. Most modern teams in their team selection are driven by analytics and the performance of players is measured through statistical analysis of a number of metrics that are collected when they play their games. You may have seen the film Moneyball (or read the book by Michael Lewis), which chronicles the introduction of statistical methods in the choice of baseball players and how they led to the success of the Oakland Athletics baseball team in the late 90s and early 2000s.

In the MLB, one of the results of the introduction of analytical data is the analysis of the gameplay itself and the time taken to finish...