Salary Capped

Over the last 30 years, Chris Bevilacqua has established himself as a leader in the sports and media businesses, being at the forefront of two transformative eras in sports-media history. A sports-media pioneer, Bevilacqua created CSTV – the first ever 24-hour cable TV network dedicated to collegiate and amateur sports, which was later sold to CBS in 2006 (now the CBS Sports Network). Now Bevilacqua is taking on the next era of sports betting: micro-markets.

An increased level of communication is one of the key factors sports franchises are utilizing to get fans back into stadiums. The development of in-venue apps helps communicate the most up-to-date information on attending an even and empowers the venue manager to heat map attendees in real time and geofence certain areas of the venue.

On this episode of Salary Capped, host Tyler Kern was joined by Robert Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Event Dynamic, for a discussion on how the start-up is working with teams to eliminate the manual process of ticket pricing with AI and better forecast what fans would be willing to spend on an event.

Salary Capped host, Tyler Kern, was joined by Kush Parekh, Senior Associate at Studio-MLA, for a discussion on sports stadium design trends and their impacts on communities.

Sports stadiums in the past were typically designed with the stadium surrounded by massive parking lots to facilitate the flow of spectators to and from the event.

The football-focused sports startup Zcruit ( https://www.zcruit.com/ ) has built a system that seamlessly integrates a large volume of constantly updating data to allow coaches to search by exact specifics they are looking for in a position, such as height or weight range, 40 yard dash time, or the total amount of yards from scrimmage.

Tyler Kern ( https://marketscale.com/industries/contributors/tyler-kern/ ) sat down with young entrepreneur Ari Salsberg ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-salsberg-924845182/ ) , creator of the “ Siri ( https://justaskfelix.com/ ) ” of fantasy football: Felix ( https://justaskfelix.com/ ). The startup uses an SMS-based AI-powered chatbot that helps people get fantasy football advice using data-driven algorithms and advanced ranking techniques. Put simply, Felix can answer your fantasy questions via a text message. Listen as Salsberg breaks down the impact this service could have on the fun and money around fantasy football.

Later this week, the college football season officially kicks off, although it will look a little different this year with constant monitoring of COVID symptoms and even “sold-out” games consisting of mostly empty seats. The start of the season will mark a big step forward in the sports world’s march back to normal.

To provide insight into how college sports will be resuming this fall, we invited on regular MarketScale ( https://marketscale.com/industries ) contributor and University of North Texas ( https://www.unt.edu/ ) Athletic Director, Wren Baker ( https://marketscale.com/industries/contributors/wren-baker/ ). Baker was able to walk us through how the school will be letting fans in through the gates this weekend at 25% capacity, adding that concessions will also have a much bigger emphasis on contactless ordering and delivery.