STATS, Inc.

STATS

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Type	Private
Industry	sports technology, data, and content
Founded	April 30, 1981 (1981-04-30)
Founder	John Dewan
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois
Key people	Ken Fuchs (CEO)
Products	X-Info, SportVU
Brands	Bloomberg Sports, Prozone, TVTI, Automated Insights, The Sports Network, BSports
Owner	Vista Equity Partners
Website	stats.com

STATS is a sports statistics, technology, data, and content company founded in 1981. STATS provides content to multimedia platforms, television broadcasters, leagues and teams, fantasy providers, and players, in addition to major B2B and B2C brands. STATS provides Associated Press editorial content and maintains relationships with many major sports leagues worldwide. They cover more than 300 leagues and competitions across the globe totaling of 83,000 events annually.

STATS LLC is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with other corporate offices in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, Bangalore, Dubai, The Hague, Mexico City, New York City and Los Angeles. The company covers 85 sports leagues and over 55,000 events a year.

STATS was founded in April 1981 by John Dewan, who became the company's CEO. The company name is an acronym for "Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems". STATS was an outgrowth of the grassroots non-profit Project Scoresheet, a volunteer network created to collect baseball statistics.

In 1996 STATS and Motorola won on appeal a court case brought by the NBA. The case was barring STATS from distributing in-game information via a special wireless device created by Motorola. The victory in this case has played a large part in other cases where professional sports leagues have tried to suppress live in-game information being distributed by other outlets. STATS is currently the NBA's official provider of statistics.

In the 1990s, STATs expanded to the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the Women's National Basketball Association, in addition to other sports.