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Varsity Xtra: Seeing is believing — video has attention of players, coaches
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 15th, 2013
The scouting also has gone high-tech, making use of digital video and the Internet.
For example, just about all the 61 boys and girls teams in WPIAL Class AAAA this season have access to all AAAA games through StatEasy, a new Pittsburgh-based company that is making a dent in the high school and college sports video market.
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New program helps WPIAL Quad A basketball
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review | February 13th, 2013
High school basketball is competitive in the WPIAL, especially at the Class AAAA level. In an effort to help coaches and teams better track players statistics and share game film, many of the Class AAAA teams have adopted a program called StatEasy.
StatEasy essentially is a program designed to give coaches and players the opportunity to track data and sync it up with film so coaches can look at specific situations within a game quickly without having to sift through hours of tape.
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Pittsburgh’s StatEasy has a new game plan
Source: Keystone Edge | January 24th, 2013
Mike Ressler founded Pittsburth’s StatEasy in 2010 with six customers and a business model based on selling subscriptions to coaches for its sports software platform. Today he has 180 customers and is on his way to raising $1 million in capital.
But equally significant for a young company, Ressler took a hard look at conditions on the ground and has deftly executed a 180-degree pivot in his strategy.
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StatEasy makes sports stats easy
Source: New Venturist | January 14th, 2013
Mike Ressler, founder and CEO of StatEasy, typifies the young entrepreneur: doing what he loves, loving what he does, and scared to shit about what might happen, or what might not!
Mike exudes the qualities that are essential for entrepreneurs: smart, technical (computer science degree from a top institution), outrageously optimistic, and confident. Like many, Mike didn’t aim to be an entrepreneur. As he tells it, he “fell backwards into it.”
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Founders: Mike Ressler
Source: Keystone Edge | October 17th, 2012
Central Catholic star running back Damien Jones-Moore played the game of his life against Woodland Hills High School, gaining 133 yards on 15 carries and scoring three touchdowns. Unfortunately, his parents were working and missed the game.
Not to worry. Pittsburgh startup StatEasy not only allowed his parents to relive the highlights the next day, but it gave them a great recruiting video with which to launch their son’s career
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StatEasy program revamps sport stat keeping
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 19th, 2012
The most random statistic can be the key to victory in sports. Knowing the formation a football coach runs most often on third-and-one in the rain could be the difference between a trip to the championship and a depressing bus ride home.
By the time StatEasy co-founder Mike Ressler began his tenure as manager and stat-keeper for Carnegie Mellon University’s women’s volleyball team in 2000, he saw it was way past time to bring stat keeping into the instant-replay era.
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Easy Does It
Source: Carnegie Mellon University | March 26th, 2012
As a Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate and assistant women’s volleyball coach, Michael Ressler found himself mired in statistics and software with confusing data entry methods. What to do?
No problem — the computer science major took out his palm pilot and developed his own technology.
Today, Ressler (CS’02) is the CEO and co-founder of StatEasy, providing unique athletic statistics tracking and video synchronization software — grown from the original.
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East Liberty startup streamlines coaching with StatEasy, tech that integrates stats and video
Source: Pop City Media | June 6th, 2012
Central Catholic star running back Damien Jones-Moore played the game of his life against Woodland Hills High School, gaining 133 yards on 15 carries and scoring three touchdowns. Unfortunately, his parents were working and missed the game.
Not to worry. Pittsburgh startup StatEasy not only allowed his parents to relive the highlights the next day, but it gave them a great recruiting video with which to launch their son’s career.
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StatEasy – Changing the Game for Sports Statistics and Video Review
Source: Startup Pittsburgh | April 16th, 2011
There comes a moment in the life of a young company when a product changes from a great idea that helps some people solve a problem into an essential product for a large group of people. The kind of product that forms the backbone of a large company, the kind of company a college football bowl is named after. Earlier this year, that moment may well have happened for local start-up StatEasy.