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For my Unit 2 Assignment I would like to fix the article for SportVU. I would like to make the history and key accomplishments as one and turn it into a timeline. I approximate the sections to go a couple of years at a time. I think this will enable future success of the article, and that the current bulleted format for "Key Accomplishments" is not going to work for a progressing entity such as SportVU.

2005-2010
SportVU was created in 2005 by Israeli scientists, Gal Oz and Miky Tamir, who had a background in missile tracking and advanced optical recognition. They had previously used some of that same science to track soccer matches in Israel.

SportVU was featured at national trade shows NAB 2007, in Las Vegas, and International Broadcasting Convention 2007, in Amsterdam. Shortly after, in 2008, SportVU was acquired by STATS LLC, one of the largest sports statistics companies in the world. STATS would go on to center SportVU efforts on basketball. During the 2009 NBA Finals in Orlando, STATS successfully demoed their SportVU technology for NBA executives. At the start of the 2010-2011 NBA season, four teams were contracted to use SportVU, the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs.

2011-2015
SportVU converted their tracking system from delayed processing to real-time data delivery during the 2011-2012 NBA season. NBA analytics teams would now be able to utilize tracking data during games. At the start of the 2012-2013 season, 10 teams were using SportVU.

Since the 2013-2014 NBA season, the SportVU camera system has been installed and in operation in all NBA arenas. In that same year, STATS added the ICE analytics platform to organize, display and analyze SportVU data, used by every team in the NBA. NBA team, Toronto Raptors, shared with sports blog, Grantland, their progress with the use of SportVU's new algorithms, which identify new events (touches, dribbles, and passes) and play types (drives, isolations, post ups, and ball screens). The Raptors Analytics Team was able to create a graphical user interface to play video footage of the play from the X-Y coordinates retrieved from SportVU.

2016-2017
In 2016, STATS and the NBA met an agreement to extend SportVU tracking data to many more media outlets around the world including ESPN, NBA on TNT, and Bleacher Report.

Beginning in the 2016-2017 season, STATS would serve as France's Ligue de Football Professionnel's official data and tracking provider. STATS would use SportVU to provide various football data and statistics.

After the NBA's full adoption of SportVU tracking technology in 2013, many statisticians and data scientists have utilized tools such as machine learning to provide more complex statistics from the tracking data. At the 10th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2016, STATS's own Director of Data Science and his team was awarded the grand prize for their contributions to a research paper concerning the prediction of shot outcomes in tennis. This was one of the many research papers completed for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference that used SportVU data, including Kirk Goldsberry's paper in 2014 concerning the prediction of points and evaluation of decision-making in basketball.