Galanis Sports Data has focused on the study of statistical parameters since the early years of its activity.

This research has led to various achievements, among which has been the definition of team sports critical parameters, important for the formulation of evaluation indices.
 

Many sports specialists have contributed to this research. Yannis Giannouris (water polo), Constantine Dimaras (volleyball), Filippos Syrigos (basketball), Jacek Gmoch (football) were some of the sports people, who guided or supervised this research during the late 80s. Many players and coaches helped all these years in defining new statistical parameters and correcting their weighting factors in an attempt to stimulate performance by evaluation indices. Demis Nikolaidis, the AEK and National Team forward, Stratos Apostolakis of Panathinaikos, Yannis Matzourakis, former PAOK forward and coach of Olympiakos, Juan Ramon Rotsa, former Panathinaikos midfielder and coach etc. belong to this group of people who grasp numbers and have the ability to relate them to performance.

In basketball, for example, tendex was closely examined and mathematically analysed with various articles published in the early 90s, proving that the winning team always has the better tendex rate.

The fact that Greece has for years hosted one the most significant basketball championships in Europe, helped in the deduction of astonishing conclusions such as that “the average scoring percentage of all championships since 1992 remains constant in both 2p-shots (50%) and 3p-shots (33%)”.
 

“Line-Up Performance analysis and prediction” was an innovation of Galanis Sports Data and was presented for the first time during Eurobasket ’95. ( View: Line-Up performance )

In football similar surprising “rules” governing the sport were discovered such as:

• 1 out of 10 shots is a goal
• 1 out of 2 shot is on target
• the number of goals equals the number of missed chances

In volleyball, water polo and handball similar conclusions have been presented over the last years and, of course, all the above were pointed out to the various world federations such as FIFA, FIBA, FIVB etc. In many cases all these played a role in the development and improvement of the Rules Of The Game of the various sports.