Article in the NY Times today on how Amazon Web Services (AWS) collects data from chips in the shoulder pads and helmets of NFL players and in the footballs too!
It's a long article, about my home town (Baltimore) but deep down in the article are these tidbits:
"The NFL also uses Amazon’s software tools, crunching data from more than 200 metrics in every football game. Data streams to the AWS cloud from chips embedded not just in players’ shoulder pads but in referees’ jerseys, the football and even the chains used to measure first downs. Machine-learning tasks that used to take all night are completed in 20 minutes using the massive computing capacity of AWS. “What we’ve really done is take a lot of the gut instinct some people have and quantified it,” said Matt Swensson, the football league’s vice president of emerging products and technology. When the Baltimore Ravens faced the Miami Dolphins, for example, N.F.L. analysts could annotate the video with the time Lamar Jackson took to get a pass off (3.8 seconds), the precise distance of the throw (46.9 yards) and the odds that Marquise Brown would catch it: 32%. (For the record, he did catch it — for a touchdown.)
Good grief Charley Brown. Is nothing sacred?
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