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Sevilla FC has introduced Scout Advisor , an innovative tool built on IBM ’ s watsonx platform , to enhance its player recruitment process .
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IBM and Sevilla FC have introduced Scout Advisor , an innovative generative AI tool that Sevilla FC will use to provide their scouting team with a comprehensive , data-driven identification and evaluation of potential recruits .
This includes both quantitative data such as height and weight , speed , number of goals or minutes played and qualitative unstructured data such as the textual analysis contained in their more than 200,000 scouting reports .
Built on watsonx , IBM ’ s AI and data platform designed for enterprises , Sevilla FC ’ s Scout Advisor will integrate with their existing suite of self-developed data-intensive applications .
Sevilla FC ’ s data department worked with IBM Client Engineering Team to build Scout Advisor , leveraging watsonx ’ s natural language processing and foundation models to search and analyse massive amounts of information present in the club ’ s existing databases to evaluate potential recruits .
The solution ’ s natural language processing capabilities have enabled Sevilla FC to use multiple large language models ( LLMs ) to help enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of their player identification . Using language prompts from Sevilla FC scouters that describe the key characteristics of the players searched , Scout Advisor generates curated lists of candidates based on stated requirements and summarises the full set of scouting reports for each individual player . Additionally , Scout Advisor links every player to the Sevilla FC ’ s own data-applications
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