LG Uplus Surpasses 10 Million Cumulative Users... Professional Baseball Outcome Prediction

LG Uplus announced on the 3rd that Spoky, an integrated sports community platform with over 10 million cumulative users, will launch the AI match prediction feature for the 2023 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) League starting from the 4th.

Spoky provides the latest news and popular YouTube and broadcast videos from various domestic and international leagues across different sports. It also live-streamed international sports events such as the 2022 Qatar World Cup and the 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC).

In fact, Spoky attracted 3 million users during the Qatar World Cup and 1.5 million during the WBC, with an average daily user count of about 66,000. As of the end of March this year, just five months after its launch, Spoky surpassed 10 million cumulative users. Users can watch games without signing up or logging in, and the absence of ads that interrupt viewing is another key to Spoky’s popularity.

Starting with the 2023 KBO League broadcasts, LG Uplus is introducing the AI match prediction feature and today’s player fortune information. Beyond just watching games, it provides enjoyable ways for fans to interact before and after matches.

First, the AI match prediction feature, which debuted and gained popularity during the 2022 Qatar World Cup broadcasts, will be available from the 4th. Based on big data including team match results and player records from the past two years, LG Uplus’s AI brand ‘ixi’ and the KBO League statistics specialist site ‘Statiz’ each provide predicted match outcomes.

‘Today’s Player Fortune’ is a service that offers daily game fortune predictions for each team’s starting pitcher (1 player) and fielders (10 players) based on past season records and saju (Korean four pillars of destiny) information. For pitchers, it predicts expected strikeout numbers, and for batters, expected hits and errors, forecasting overall game performance data.

Additionally, a dedicated page for each team has been created, and by setting a favorite team, users can subscribe to receive notifications about the start and win/loss results of that team’s games. This subscription feature enhances user convenience by delivering alerts without requiring users to search for game results themselves. Fans can also cheer for their teams through SpokyTalk on each team’s page.

To celebrate the opening of the KBO League, LG Uplus will hold the ‘SpokyTalk Relay’ event until the 31st of next month. All users who sign up for Spoky and complete the daily mission of writing at least five SpokyTalk posts per day, ten times during the event period regardless of sports category, will receive a chicken gifticon.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.