Goals, assists, saves, missed shots - the list of statistics collected for all DAIKIN HBL, 2nd HBL and DHB Cup matches is long and comprehensive. But how exactly is this data collected? And what actually happens to the statistics at the end of the game?

 

Which keeper had the best save percentage at the end of the season? How many goals did the leading scorer score? And how hard does a professional handball player actually throw? All statistics and data on all matches in the world's strongest league are available to handball fans exclusively on the official DAIKIN HBL channels. Every match day, thousands of fans follow the action in the various arenas of the Bundesliga handball teams via the live ticker.

 

The fully digitalised and real-time data collection is carried out and published for all official matches of the DAIKIN HBL, the 2nd HBL and the DHB Cup. Performance data is also collected during the Handball Super Cup. The data is collected in two different ways:

1) All handball matches are accompanied by a two-man referee panel. They record the central match information (goal progression, goal scorers, penalty throws, playing time, penalties) live and transfer this data to the ‘electronic match report’.

2) Independently of the referees, two additional scouts, who are specially trained by the Handball Bundesliga in cooperation with sports data partner Sportradar, record in-depth statistics (goals, assists, saves, technical errors, etc.) for each match. Using web-based software, this data ends up directly in the official live ticker of Handball-Bundesliga GmbH, for example. The basis for the collection of data by the scouts is the scouting manual.