While baseball is a statistician’s dream with its series of discrete actions across the field, the development of comparable analytics in football is hindered by the complexity of formations and events — what the president of EdjSports has called “a probability atom bomb” — not to mention the scoring of points in varying increments, yet […]
College football fans this season saw FOX Sports introduce a unique way to experience games. Utilizing c360 Technologies and Skycam, FOX Sports has been able to livestream 360-degree panoramic footage from the Michigan-Ohio State, Ohio State-Penn State, Michigan State-Notre Dame and Michigan State-Washington State games. Viewers could watch pregame warmups, halftime band performances and postgame […]
Some fans may have waited hours in the rain to get into the College Football Playoff national title game in Atlanta because a visit from President Donald Trump that put security on high alert, but as far as Ticketmaster is concerned, the mobile ticketing went “amazingly well.” In an interview with SportTechie after the game, […]
The college football season ended in style with Alabama’s thrilling win against Georgia in the College Football Playoff championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and there to capture it all were cameras that ESPN placed inside the first-down markers. ESPN had its first-and-10 marker cams make their debut earlier in the College Football Playoff semifinal at […]
Twitter’s sports team is extending beyond conversation curation and delving into content creation during the college football national championship game between Alabama and Georgia with new video features and, yes, an emoji trophy that will exist both in hashtags and as a physical take-home object for the winner. Wanting to prolong the shelf life of […]
