Hudl Expands Its Professional Suite of Basketball and Ice Hockey Analysis Tools with FastModel
11 Mar, 2025
3 min Read
FastModel joining Hudl strengthens our commitment to equipping basketball and ice hockey customers with powerful tools for every step of their workflow.
We’re delighted to announce our acquisition of FastModel, the provider of best-in-class game preparation, scouting and recruitment tools in basketball and ice hockey.
The acquisition represents another key milestone in our commitment to provide Hudl customers with the powerful tools they need at every step of their workflows. Combining our current video, analytics, and content ecosystem with FastModel’s industry-leading play diagramming, scouting, and recruiting products will level up the experience we’re able to provide to customers: delivering a one-stop solution that will save coaches and video coordinators precious time, allowing them to focus on what they do best.
"We provide coaches and athletes at every level with superior solutions to elevate their game,” said Chris Leazier, Hudl North America Market Director. “By joining together, we’re delivering the most effective tools to prepare smarter, perform better, and connect seamlessly—all within an efficient, unified workflow.”
FastModel: 20 years of trusted analysis tools
Founded in 2004, FastModel has developed a strong customer base in basketball, serving the majority of NBA and WNBA teams, and thousands more in college and high school basketball.
After developing a basketball solution that coaches love, FastModel found similar success in ice hockey, with teams in the NHL and PWHL as well as college and high schools across the country choosing FastModel to power their scouting, recruitment and game preparation needs.
The FastModel toolset – FastScout, FastDraw, and FastRecruit – meets the increased demands for automation in coaching and scouting as well as the rising importance of providing data-driven insights to improve decision making – decisions that ultimately drive team performance and deliver wins on game day.
Industry-leading play-diagramming, scouting and recruiting tools
FastScout is a multi-purpose platform: a fully customizable practice planning and scouting report solution, providing automated stats and video integration.
“We understand that in the modern game, teams are challenged with deciphering a broad range of data sources into a view that is both insightful and actionable. This is something that FastScout does very well.” said Paul Weaver, Product Director of North American Sports at Hudl.
Create professional style scouting reports and distribute to mobile devices with FastScout.
FastDraw is the leading play diagramming tool in basketball. Users can quickly draw, organize and share key plays through digitized playbooks that integrate with scouting reports. The tool also has video integration and note-taking capabilities to enhance learning and development for athletes.
"FastDraw facilitates high quality athlete teaching via engaging animated play-diagramming experiences." added Weaver. "The tool gives users the power to quickly draw, edit and share plays with athletes straight to their device, with over 9000 free plays and draws already within the platform as submitted by FastDraw's engaged community of basketball experts. It's essential for game preparation."
Create video playbooks for your players that include play diagrams and video with FastDraw.
FastRecruit enables coaches to plan their future with interactive draft boards, schedule grids, and recruit information through access to high school schedules and the most Live Period data on the market.
Recruit top talent and build winning teams with FastRecruit.
The demands placed on teams in the modern game dictate that their workflows be as efficient and streamlined as possible. That’s the power that Hudl and FastModel will bring to our customers: a unified ecosystem that combines Hudl’s content and advanced video analysis tools with FastModel’s premier game preparation, self-scouting, recruiting and advanced data analysis tools.
“Teams at every level will benefit from Hudl’s dedication to innovation, ensuring they stay ahead in a rapidly evolving sports landscape by using the tools they need to prepare, strategize, and win.” added Leazier.
We remain committed to improving and developing our world-class toolset to give our customers the information and data they need to make game-winning decisions every single day. Bringing FastModel into the Hudl family is another demonstration of that commitment, and we look forward to seeing the powerful impact this will have on users.
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