Sports Performance Analytics
Data-driven coaching for every player.
SKILLFORGE turns match video into AI-powered skill ratings, technique analysis, and personalized drill recommendations — across kabaddi, football, volleyball, and more.
Request a DemoSee plans- 20%
- better academy retention
- 15–25%
- technique consistency gain in 8 weeks
- 500+
- players in the pilot academy
- 1 day
- to onboard an academy
What Skillforge delivers
In production
Proven at VFACE Sports Academy, 500+ players
Pilot across kabaddi, volleyball, badminton and football with coaches using the dashboard weekly.
- Technique consistency up 15–25% in eight weeks
- Academy retention up 20% with objective progress shown to families
- Coaches report seeing each player’s needs for the first time
- Players get specific cues such as “widen your stance”
Features
Everything the platform does, by area
Capture
Any camera, any ground.
- HD camera or coach smartphone
- Live or post-match processing
- Self-practice recording
Measure
Sport-specific metrics.
- Kabaddi, kho kho, football, volleyball, badminton
- Pose estimation vs elite benchmarks
- Decision speed and endurance
Coach
Specific, actionable feedback.
- Strength and improvement summaries
- Five-minute drill recommendations
- Real-time self-practice cues
Lead
Decisions for coaches and academies.
- Squad rankings and composition
- Talent identification
- Opponent scouting
Any camera, any ground.
- HD camera or coach smartphone
- Live or post-match processing
- Self-practice recording
- Video library with tagging
How it works
From first call to live in four steps
Record
Film matches with one camera or a coach’s phone; players film their own drills.
Analyse
Computer vision tracks players and poses and turns events into sport-specific metrics.
Feedback
Each player gets plain-language strengths, weaknesses and short drills.
Track progress
Trends and rankings show coaches and families what is improving.
Connects with your stack
- Smartphone app (iOS and Android)
- IP and USB cameras
- HLS streaming
- YOLOv8 pose models
- TimescaleDB
- Next.js dashboards
- Federation exports
- REST API
- Smartphone app (iOS and Android)
- IP and USB cameras
- HLS streaming
- YOLOv8 pose models
- TimescaleDB
- Next.js dashboards
- Federation exports
- REST API
The challenge
Grassroots talent is judged by feel, not data
Coaches have no numbers
Rankings and playing time rest on memory and bias, and quiet talent goes unnoticed.
Players practise blind
Self-practice has no feedback loop, so habits get reinforced as often as fixed.
Analysis is unaffordable
Small academies cannot pay for video analysis, and large ones spend a hundred hours a season reviewing by hand.
How we build
Engineering principles behind every engagement
Plain language first
Feedback must make sense to a fifteen-year-old on a ground, not only to an analyst.
- One cue per drill
- Video examples
- Weekly focus areas
Technology we work with
- YOLOv8 pose
- Custom CNN
- LLM feedback
- HLS ingest
- TimescaleDB
- PostgreSQL
- React mobile
- Next.js
- YOLOv8 pose
- Custom CNN
- LLM feedback
- HLS ingest
- TimescaleDB
- PostgreSQL
- React mobile
- Next.js
Your first 90 days
What you can expect, phase by phase
Pilot an academy
- One-day onboarding
- Camera and phone set-up
- First match analysed
- Coach metric review
Player adoption
- Player apps rolled out
- Self-practice routines
- Weekly focus areas
- Parent progress sharing
Scale and scout
- Talent identification report
- Opponent scouting
- Add a second sport
- Federation conversation
Market comparison
How it compares with pro-grade video analysis and manual notebooks
| Criterion | VFACE This product | Pro-grade video analysis and manual notebooks |
|---|---|---|
| Sports covered | Kabaddi, kho kho and more | Not publicly stated |
| Price per player | ₹99 to ₹249 per month | Hudl: not publicly stated; Veo: plans by camera and team count |
| Self-practice | AI feedback on phone video | Not publicly stated |
| Setup | One day, one camera | Veo uses a dedicated camera per team |
| Language of feedback | Plain, specific drills | Not publicly stated |
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Examples: Hudl (video analysis and wearables; no price on hudl.com/products) and Veo (camera plans by team count and storage; veo.co/pricing), checked 2026-10-09. Based on public vendor information at the time of writing; capabilities and pricing change, so verify against current vendor pages.
Industry benchmark
Coaching analytics: SKILLFORGE vs manual review
Technique consistency gain (8 wks)
Coach review hours per season
Lower is better
Academy retention uplift
Figures are indicative ranges from typical engagements compared with published industry surveys. Results vary by scope and starting point.
Plans
Per player, per month
AcademyRecommended
₹99
per player / month, 50+ players
- Coach dashboard
- Team analysis
- Talent identification
Elite
₹149
per player / month, 100+ players
- White-label
- Advanced opponent analysis
- Federation integration
A typical 50-player academy pays about ₹4,950 a month. Annual commitments are discounted by 10 to 15 percent.
Client voices
What our clients say
academy retention
“For the first time I can see exactly what each player needs to work on, not just a gut feeling.”
Security and governance
Young athletes’ data
Minor-safe handling
Parental consent and restricted access to footage.
Transparent ratings
Players and families see how scores are formed.
Federation sharing
Only with explicit consent and defined fields.
Secure storage
Encrypted video with retention controls.
Insights and news
What is happening in the industry, and what we think
Industry headlines, last 30 days
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Frequently Asked Questions
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