MatchMatix is so cutting edge, you'll need plasters. To make sure you don't get hurt, MatchMatix is currently on trial at Manchester United and a Championship football club, and we're in discussions with some sports associations. If you'd like to see MatchMatix in action, get in touch, and we'll show it to you.

Once we have some feedback from the trials, we'll make some improvements and release MatchMatix into the wild.

You'll need a video analysis package to collect data, either SportsCode or Focus X2 and the latest .NET Framework (free) for Windows XP or Vista.

Well, after an hour or two of writing down words related to sports analysis (game, player, numbers, score...) I noticed that match and mathematics started with the same letters. It was a quick step to combine the two words. The 'x' at the end was needed as matchmatics.com had been registered by someone else.

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