2015 has been a huge year for advancement in sport technology. And for sports fans, Thanksgiving 2015 provides the perfect opportunity to sit back and reflect on all of the many new technologies that are helping improve the games we love. Here are just four examples to get the conversation started. This could be an enormous list […]
Statistical metrics in the NFL have done a good job of telling the story for skill position players, but not necessarily for the nuances associated with offensive and defensive positions, whose talents are best measured with unconventional methods. The players’ intangible skills and presence can be difficult to convey to fans in comparison to historically […]
Beginning with the MLB’s introduction of Statcast, the sports world seemed to realize just how incredible tracking technology could be in the acquisition of never-before-known statistics. The NFL has responded with their own “Official On-Field Player Tracking Provider,” Zebra Technologies, and will place radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in the shoulder pads of every player this […]
One of the three most important technological storylines from this 2014 NFL season is Zebra Technologies’ RFID chips. From the outset, players have had to wear two tags inside their shoulder pads, provided they were in one of the 17 launch stadiums. This player-tracking technology was most visible during the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, where […]
We, as the human race, love to tag things as quantifiable certainties. But certain numbers are difficult for us to track: Ever since the 1920’s, scientists have been trying to put a quantified number on the expansion of the universe. The updated figure lands at about 46.2 miles per second, per megaparsec. Just try to […]
