ISY10212: Contemporary Issues Report - IT in Sports

This report examines the profound impact of Information Technology (IT) on the sports industry. It explores the various applications of IT, including player health monitoring, training schedule development, performance analysis, and online registration, highlighting how these advancements have revolutionized both indoor and outdoor sports. The report delves into the ethical implications of IT in sports, such as data breaches, misuse of player information, and unauthorized access to team data, emphasizing the importance of data security and ethical considerations. It concludes by recommending the implementation of firewalls, data backups, and structured data storage to mitigate the ethical risks. The report underscores the significant benefits IT brings to sports while addressing the critical need for responsible and ethical practices to ensure the integrity and fairness of the industry.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Impact of IT in sports......................................................................................................................2
Ethical implications of IT in Sports.................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Sports have been acting as a business process in the recent years. The main aspect that is
considered is that the revenue that is generated due to sports have been immense since the last
decade. Information Technology has been becoming an inter disciplinary partner of all kind of
sports. Sports psychology, sports statistics maintenance, medication processes are the few
processes that are heavily impacted due to the implementation of IT in Sports. This report
discusses about the impacts of Information Technology in Sports. Proper discussion regarding
the ethical implications of implementing Information Technology inn Sports.
Impact of IT in sports
Information Technology finds its usage in bit indoor and outdoor sports. Indoor sports are
the section that is more affected than the field of outdoor sports. The major tasks that are
performed by Information Technology in the outdoor sports includes updating the health status
of the players (Zhang 2017). In this case it is seen that the players go through several medication
process before qualifying for the games. In this process they are tested to limits and hence their
health is also put under test. The data that are generated in the testing phase are stored in the
database. These data are transacted with all the higher officials for commencing of the project.
This is the one of the major reason that the functioning process of the sports persons get affected.
This process ensures the time that is taken in conveying the data which has been collected is
performed in a least time (Wang 2019). This process also ensures that a proper documentation of
the health status of the sports person is maintained. In case of any kind of emergency during the
occurrence of the sports this data set can be useful. Preparing training schedule is also another
major impact that is imposed on sports department due to IT. In this section the main aspect that

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is to be considered is that the training is scheduled by tools of Information Technology.
Information Technology considers all personal data for creating this schedule for the sports
people. It is seen that data that have been collected in the past as well as the data that is collected
at the present instance is considered. After gathering those data, proper analysis of the same is
made (Paul et al, 2017). This analysis acts as the base of the entire schedule development
process. This ensures that the schedule that is created is highly tailored and hence wise acts as
utmost useful to the sports person. Another major aspect that is considered is that feedback is
provided to the sports persons as per the collected data. With the help of the Information
Technology monitoring one’s performance gets easier. This monitoring process has been one of
the major reason that the sports persons have been using the technology for. With the help of this
technology, each and every body movement gets traced and is properly monitored. This proper
monitoring of the data ensures that the feedback that is provided to the players are highly
authentic in nature (Lu and Du 2017). Again it is to be stated that in case the data that are
considered are inaccurate in nature the entire process of training suffers and hence the sports
person suffers as well. The performance of the players are scrutinized. After scrutinizing the
performance of the players feedbacks are provided. With the help of the Information
Technology, even the smallest details are captured (Lopatiev, Pityn and Demichkovskyi 2017).
This capturing of smallest details ensures that the players are well aware of the issues that they
are having in the technique that they are using in playing the sports. This helps the players in
understand the issues that are present and hence wise they can work on the same for eliminating
them. Storing of result also acts important. Another major impact of Information Technology in
sports is that the data that are generated during the match are save. This helps in proper
assessment of the match is made and in case of playing series, these storing of data acts

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important (Lei 2017). This is one of the major aspect that imposes a positive effect on the entire
process. Again it is seen that data of individual players are stored. This data collecting and
analyzing ensures that all the players who are playing are abided by the laws of the tournament.
Hence it gets easier for the managing committee to handle the entire event. Analyzing team
performance is also another aspect that is performed with the help of the Information
Technology. Team performance are highly scrutinized with the help of different tools that uses
the platform of Information Technology (Hameed et al, 2018). Team spirit can also be checked
via these tools and hence wise the wrongs that has been affecting the entire team game is also
detected and hence wise proper focus can be made on the topic. Online registration is another
major impact that is made by IT in Sports. In this section registration for different tournaments
are made via online in today’s society. This ensures that the time that was spent in staying in the
queue and registering oneself will be eliminated and the time required for the registering oneself
will be getting lower. Transaction process also gets facilitated and hence wise this provides a
faster registration process.
Ethical implications of IT in Sports
There are a few ethical issues that are present in incorporating Information Technology in
Sports. Data breaching regarding the data of the players have been a major concern. This leads to
the fact that the data that is collected by the organizing committee during the registration purpose
the data are stored in the database. These data can be accessed by imposters. In that case the
personal details of the players will be at stake (Garatea et al, 2017). Without proper
acknowledgement of the players the data that are to provide for registration can be misused.
After breaching of personal data, the data that are generated during monitoring of the players can
also be breached (Hongliang 2016). In this case the issues of the players will be known by the

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opponent team. This might be facilitating the opponent during the game but this is considered as
unethical. Another aspect that is to be considered is that the data that are team data that are
analyzed with the help of this technology might get accessed by imposters without proper
authentication, This leads to the fact that the strengths and weaknesses of the team will be known
and hence wise proper advantages of the weaknesses can be utilized by the imposters.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be stated that Information technology has been widely
accepted in the department of sports. Information Technology has opened up a complete new
section of data analysis and hence this benefits both the players as well as the managing team. It
has been noted that the data that are gathered in the process will be benefitting the entire strategy
development section of the teams and hence wise better the performance. Despite having few
security related issues the recommendations that are provided in the process will be acting
beneficial.
Recommendation
 Implement firewall in the database will increase the robustness and hence data breaching
can be prohibited.
 Backup of data can also be kept. In case data breaching occurs, and proper backup of the
data is kept the lost data can be used and hence the effectiveness of the attack can be
reduced.
 Data that is to be stored must be structured in nature. In case the data is not structured,
mismanagement of data can take place.

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