NFL, AWS Launch New Competition to Track Helmet Impacts in Football

In 2017, researchers from Boston University studied the donated brains of 111 National Football League (NFL) players. All but one showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease assoc Read more…

Three Ways Analytics Impacts the NFL

Fans will hopefully enjoy a ton of action on the field Sunday when the Los Angeles Rams line up against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII. But what fans likely won't see is how analytics is impacting football b Read more…

What the NFL Teaches Us About Business Intelligence

When people think of leaders in business intelligence, the National Football League probably isn’t the first to come to mind. After all, the league just hired its first chief information officer three years ago, and i Read more…

In-Game Tracking is Latest NFL Dataset

As the National Football League gears up for its 96th season, it is following in the footsteps of other major sports leagues by embracing emerging data technologies to provide on-field player tracking. The NFL's take Read more…

How Madden’s Ratings Czar Rules NFL Analytics

Donny Moore probably knows more about the 2,600 players in the National Football League than anybody. As the so-called Ratings Czar for EA Sports, the company behind the Madden football video game franchise, Moore's nume Read more…

Big Data Dispelling Preconceived Notions in the NFL

One of the most commonly used examples when discussing what in the world “big data” is, is the now famous Moneyball case study, where the Oakland Athletics major league baseball team was able to use analytics to break the game down in ways that previously hadn't been done before. With the NFL season bearing down on us, we ask the question “what about the NFL?” Read more…