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A pretty good article came out last week by Jonathan Jones on CBSSports.com, which highlighted the NFL\u2019s increase in data collection on the football field<\/a><\/strong>, pointing out how much that segment has grown and the possibilities that are still untapped from that technology.<\/p>\n

Things have gotten to the point now where there\u2019s a sensor the size of a nickel weighing 4 grams that\u2019s placed into the bladder of a football, which measures height and velocity, as well as RPMs. This information is tracked on every single throw and every single game and the extent of where things have already gone in the eight years the league has been doing it has really shown how much progress they\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n

The company, Zebra Technologies, seems to have a pretty good bead on things and they\u2019re the ones behind the NFL\u2019s \u201cNext Gen Stats\u201d. The sensors now extend from not just the footballs, but to players\u2019 shoulder pads, first-down markers, as well as the pylons.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the NFL had attempted other methods prior to sticking with this one, with the league experimenting with optical tracking going back to 2009. However, they found the optical tracking \u201ctoo ineffective for wide-scale collection\u201d and kept exploring options prior to settling on the RFID technology with Zebra Technologies back in 2014.<\/p>\n

They wasted little time implementing it. By 2015, every venue where an NFL game was hosted was equipped with the necessary sensors which, at the time, just tracked players. The footballs started getting tagged in 2016 (the timing of that certainly seems like a strange coincidence), although initially, it was just for preseason games and Thursday night football.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s great for storytelling and pointing out pretty incredible athletic feats, including the miles-per-hour of a player during a play, one of the big questions is obviously how it affects the accuracy of the game. If there are sensors on the player, the football, the first-down marker and the pylon, shouldn\u2019t that be able to assist in figuring out what is\/isn\u2019t a first-down or a touchdown?<\/p>\n

The answer appears to be yes, but the caveat seems to be that the information can\u2019t track an elbow or a knee being down, which complicates that situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think it\u2019s possible. It\u2019s not possible today,\u201d Matt Swensson, the NFL\u2019s VP of emerging products and technology, told Jones. \u201cI think it comes through a combination of optical and camera-based feeds with tracking data. And then us getting to a precision level that we\u2019re comfortable with. We\u2019re just not there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The accuracy of the technology is said to be \u201cwithin 3 or so inches\u201d, which is better than GPS tracking. That means that they\u2019re getting closer to figuring things out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, what\u2019s interesting is that the league is providing every team with this data after each game, although it\u2019s not known if it\u2019s shared outside of each organization. With so much time already passed, there\u2019s enough data for clubs to be able to tell how much a player has slowed down, how much less the football might be coming off the hand of a quarterback on a throw, etc. However, that metric would seemingly be helpful for teams looking at free agents, but not if the data isn\u2019t released by the respective club they played for previously.<\/p>\n

Either way, it\u2019s interesting to see where the technology has gone and where it might go into the future. While I\u2019m one who prefers it enhancing the experience of watching a game and not getting in the way of it, it\u2019s obviously cool to see what they\u2019ve already been able to do and it should be fun to see where it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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