[dylan604]

There is a decent market for these kinds of tools if you can make easy for users to use. Back in the late 90s/early 00s, I worked for a company that provided MPEG2 equipment to startup making these kinds of analysis tools for American Football analysis. The NFL has had it for years, but they were trying to make it affordable for High Schools to get in on the action. I'm in Texas, so that's pretty much a religion, so you can bet they spent the money.

This was very manually oriented where the students would capture the VHS tapes schools swapped with each other, and then log each play, the down, the time on the clock, and every other piece of data they could think of. At the end, it would analyze it all and be able to show that the coach from School A has tendencies to run a particular play or defense in the 4th quarter. It was pretty accurate.

If you can do the same thing but without needing the manual data entry, there could be a product instead of just being a fun project. If you can show that certain players have more tendencies to switch to the left foot after cutting in from the right, the defense can look for it and shut down that lane and offer the outside (isn't that their default anyways???) to make the attacker chose their "less preferred" action. We know goal keepers study PK attempts in attempts to have a more informed guess on the shooter's tendency on placement.

Never underestimate the money schools/coaches will go to gain an advantage. Hell, we're seeing yet again coaches in trouble for trying to steal the play calls. The one positive about trying to sell it is that you do not have to worry about the school's budget (which is never enough) since this is the exact kind of thing the boosters love to fund in an attempt to get the upper hand on a rival.

Good luck!