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RapScore quantifies players’ raw data to identify strengths, weaknesses and peer rankingsST. LOUIS, Dec. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rapsodo, the sports data company known for helping athletes analyze real-time metrics to perfect their game, today announces its new proprietary technology, RapScore – a standardized test that calculates a score to rank player performance at all levels, available at Rapsodo Certified Facilities. RapScore was created as the standard scale for player development and recruiting, built to rank any baseball or softball player in the world. The system uses Rapsodo’s existing HITTING and PITCHING technology to quantify a player’s personal metrics, and utilizes the principals of the 20-80 scale to rank players amongst their peers and evaluate performance. RapScore’s pitching algorithm compares an individual’s pitch metrics to the ideal form of that pitch type. At the end of the session, a player’s RapScore is calculated based on dynamic weighing of the pitches thrown. Hitting RapScore is determined using a player’s max and average exit velocity as well as launch angle throughout a certified session. These session metrics are compared by the athlete’s level and accurately placed on the 20-80 scale.“During these times when scouting and recruiting has become increasingly difficult, Rapsodo wanted to create a program that facilitates measuring and comparing player performance,” said Batuhan Okur, founder and CEO of Rapsodo. “Working with input from MLB teams to top NCAA coaches and academies, we created a standardized score that helps players better understand how their skills and performance compare to their peers. We believe RapScore will reshape the industry and provide players and coaches with a wealth of information they can use to improve skillsets and be more accessible to scouts.”RapScore is one scale made up of four tiers to accurately rank players from all experience levels. The tiers include: Youth, High School, College and Pro. No matter the level, each player who completes a verified session will receive a RapScore number that compares them to players within their tier, as well as the tier above. Through this ranking system, coaches will now be able to rely on RapScore to identify, evaluate and compare individual players with a data driven number that is a standard benchmark to use across the industry, accessible through Rapsodo’s National Database.Chris Fetter, the recently appointed pitching coach for the Detroit Tigers, previously served the same role at the University of Michigan baseball team where he worked closely with Rapsodo’s technology. While still with the Wolverines, he had implemented RapScore as a way to continue to evaluate players virtually. “The two pillars of our program at Michigan are recruiting and development and we try to back up everything our eyes tell us with the objective data Rapsodo provides, both with our current players and potential student-athletes,” said Fetter. “Due to the current pandemic and the NCAA dead period, the Rapsodo database and RapScore have been critical to our recruiting efforts by giving us a better glimpse into what the athletes we are watching online can do with the baseball.”RapScore sessions are currently available at more than 75 facilities nationwide, and is rapidly expanding. All players who complete a RapScore session will have their score included on Rapsodo’s National Database, a public leaderboard, allowing individual players, teams and recruiters to analyze and compare rankings.For more information on RapScore, visit: https://rapsodo.com/rapscore/To find a Certified Facility near you that offers RapScore testing, visit: www.rapsodo.com/locator/About Rapsodo: Founded in 2010, Rapsodo develops data-driven sports technologies designed to empower athletes and coaches to cost-effectively analyze and improve their game. The company continues to focus on delivering a variety of sports training and simulation technologies that allow users to better understand performance through reliable statistics. This ultimately translates into Rapsodo’s motto of “Measure to Master.”Media Contact: Brenna Byrne Uproar PR for Rapsodo 312-607-8117 bbyrne@uproarpr.com

The Tennessee Titans are moving up in the USA TODAY’s power rankings after notching a 31-10 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 14.

The 2020-21 NBA season is almost upon us, but Hot Take SZN is here, and at the end of another eventful offseason we will see how close to the sun we can fly and still stand the swelter of these viewpoints.

Whenever Jürgen Klopp meets Jose Mourinho, football’s fashion police are never far from the scene. Liverpool versus Tottenham Hotspur will predictably be billed as a clash of style and culture, Klopp’s attacking zeal facing the obstinate bus parking of Mourinho. It may come as some surprise, then, that Klopp himself suggested such an appraisal needs myth-busting ahead of the meeting of the Premier League’s top two on Wednesday. “You cannot be top of the league with just counter-attacking,” said Klopp. What might please his visiting rival even more was Klopp’s suggestion he sees many of his own team’s qualities in Spurs. “I am not surprised by the Tottenham development. The style of play? I am not sure what you mean,” said Klopp. “I see a lot of similarities with us in the way they build-up and play football. If you see their games you see they are a proper football side. You see how [Harry] Kane drops like Bobby Firmino does it. And they have two quick wingers right and left. To defend in those areas is really difficult. They have an offensive midfielder with two strong sitting midfielders. They play football, not only counter-attacking. They defend really well. “You are right they are not bothered about sitting back and defending the result and going for counter-attacks, but that is not the only strength of Tottenham. That could be your impression if you only read about them. I see what I see. And unfortunately, what I see is pretty good.”

== FULL SCRIPT TO FOLLOW == SHOWS: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 2, 2020) (UEFA – NO RESALES. NO COMMERCIAL USE. MUST ON-SCREEN COURTESY “©UEFA 2020”.) 1. JOSE MOURINHO AT TOTTENHAM TRAINING SESSION LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 15, 2020) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL) 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSE MOURINHO, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR MANAGER, SAYING: “Give me Liverpool list of injuries and compare that list of injuries with what is the best Liverpool team, and then I can give you a list of 10 injuries at Tottenham, we have two kids of the under-16s with injuries, we have two other in the under-21 and we have three then the under-20 three, we have (Eric) Lamela and (Japhet) Tanganga and you have a list of 10 players.” LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 2, 2020) (UEFA – NO RESALES. NO COMMERCIAL USE. MUST ON-SCREEN COURTESY “©UEFA 2020”.) 3. PLAYERS INCLUDING GARETH BALE TRAINING LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 15, 2020) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL) 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSE MOURINHO, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR MANAGER, SAYING: “We are a good team that works hard but I would say Liverpool is the result of if I’m not wrong 1894 days of work with Juergen, 1894 if I’m wrong I’m wrong for a few days, and we are the result of a work of 390 days, but this 390 days are fake, because probably no, lots of these days would not even days of work, were days of quarantine, were days being at home unable to to work. “So from almost 2000 to 300, for us to be able to compete at the level we are doing I can only give credit to the players and be very very happy with what they are doing.” LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 9, 2020) (UEFA – NO RESALES. NO COMMERCIAL USE. MUST ON-SCREEN COURTESY “©UEFA 2020”.) (MUTE) 5. PLAYERS TRAINING LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 15, 2020) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL) 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSE MOURINHO, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR MANAGER, SAYING: “But will we go there to try to win the match, is the way we think this season, and it’s not about being top of the league or no, it is nothing, is just about we go there and we want to try to win.” LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 9, 2020) (UEFA – NO RESALES. NO COMMERCIAL USE. MUST ON-SCREEN COURTESY “©UEFA 2020”.) (MUTE) 7. PLAYERS TRAINING LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 15, 2020) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL) 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSE MOURINHO, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR MANAGER, SAYING: “Gerard (Houllier) was an amazing guy, and I had the privilege to share with him so many meetings in UEFA, in FIFA, because since he finished his career he was always involved in this technical things. “And such a nice guy, and of course I she was very sorry, and tomorrow at Anfield you will have the possible homage, is a pity that the stadium is not full and the Liverpool fans could express their feelings to such a great guy.” LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (DECEMBER 9, 2020) (UEFA – NO RESALES. NO COMMERCIAL USE. MUST ON-SCREEN COURTESY “©UEFA 2020”.) (MUTE) 9. PLAYERS TRAINING

The Rams are on the rise once again after securing their second straight win.

The last time they Detroit Lions went three or consecutive years with a top 10 draft pick, their final selection in that run was Calvin Johnson