SAP Business Data Cloud helps Team Liquid optimize player performance in Race to World First

Team Liquid, one of the world’s premier esports organizations, has announced the use of SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) - an enterprise data platform built on SAP HANA - to connect gameplay, wellness, biometric, and operational data in order to optimize player performance for World of Warcraft’s Race to World First (RWF).

Connecting fragmented data into a unified system

Race to World First is one of the most physically demanding esports competitions, requiring teams to compete continuously for weeks against some of the most complex raid encounters. Fatigue, stress, recovery, and coordination can all influence performance, while coaches still need to make real-time decisions.

The traditional challenge is that critical information often sits in separate systems. Gameplay metrics, combat logs, wearable device signals, player wellness information, and operational data can each provide insight. However, when analyzed in isolation, they leave coaches with an incomplete view of how player condition and in-game execution affect one another.

SAP BDC helps Team Liquid bring those signals into a unified, AI-enriched analytics environment. Coaches, analysts, and performance experts can view physical readiness, stress indicators, recovery metrics, scheduling context, and in-game performance together, helping them identify patterns that are hard to detect across disconnected tools and spreadsheets.

SAP Joule - AI assistant for tactical decisions

The solution extends the connected data foundation with AI-powered recommendations. By analyzing trends across gameplay, wellness, and biometric information, SAP Joule can help coaches surface early warning signs and compare tactics against historical performance patterns.

With Joule, coaches can also evaluate whether recovery breaks, role adjustments, or strategy changes may help the team sustain precision during progression attempts.

From esports to enterprise

“Using SAP Business Data Cloud allows us to make decisions backed by data rather than intuition during one of the most demanding competitive periods of the year,” said Dr. Jesse Hart, Senior Director of Sports Science and Analytics at Team Liquid.

SAP and Team Liquid have collaborated since 2018 on esports performance, analytics, and AI innovation. SAP BDC marks the next evolution of that work, showing how connected data and AI can help teams turn fragmented information into action under pressure.

The same challenge exists beyond esports: organizations across industries need trusted data, intelligent insights, and human expertise working together so people can perform at their best when it matters most.

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Source: SAP BDC Helps Team Liquid Optimize Player Performance — SAP News Center, September 2026