Sam Watson: Using Data as a Competitive Advantage

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On today's episode of In Stride, Sinead talks to Sam Watson about how he has used analytics to improve his riding and how that led to him co-founding the sports data company EquiRatings.

Sam Watson is a successful Irish event rider that has competed in three World Equestrian Games, earning a team silver medal at Tryon in 2018. Sam is a co-founder of the sports data and analytics company EquiRatings, which launched in 2015. Sam and Sinead discuss using data as an objective way of looking at progress and how that information can be used to inform smarter training. The margin of error in show jumping and cross-country was one example of how Sam was able to use numbers to improve his performances. Sam talks about how much information is out there and how having a growth mindset helped him become successful in his business and his riding.

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