The NFL is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, an Amazon company specializing in cloud-based data analytics and machine learning technologies, to uncover new ways of visualizing gameday data collected from the Zebra chips in footballs and player shoulder pads. AWS will boost the accuracy, speed, and insights provided by NFL’s Next Gen Stats platform, […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It was just the play that took the wind out of the New York Giants’ sails in their Monday night game against the Detroit Lions at MetLife Stadium. Rookie Jamal Agnew fielded a punt less than a minute into the fourth quarter, dodged seven Giants players and ran what was called […]
Zebra Technologies and Wilson Sporting Goods announced Thursday that every NFL game football this season would have an embedded RFID tag to track location, speed and rotation metrics. Though some data points will be exclusive to teams, other statistics will be included in television broadcasts and potentially tabulated in NFL.com leaderboards. This technology debuted at […]
For the 2017 NFL season, Zebra Sports will enter into the third consecutive year of deploying its RFID tracking Sports Solution into players’ shoulder pads but now it’ll include additional layers through a new relationship with Kinduct, a data and analytics software provider that helps sports teams make informed decisions. Despite it being year three of Zebra […]
NEW YORK — A native of Sweden, Zebra Technologies CEO Anders Gustafsson didn’t grow up watching the NFL. But the company he now leads is helping to change the game as the league’s official on-field player tracking provider. “It changes obviously how you view football and how you coach football,” Gustafsson said at Bloomberg Breakaway. For the […]
