Football and technology

Yes, the football has a chip in it. Plus other sports technology you may not know about

The chip is only accurate to six inches so ball measurement decisions are left up to the chain gang. There are a lot of other analytics coaches can get from the chipped ball and players who wear RFID tags.

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[CGI_Ram]

When will it get to that you can just RFID tag college players and project their athletic data to successful NFL players?

That seems like a draft day game changer. Maybe we are already doing some of that, and probably are based on what I read there.

This caught my eye too;

With so many analytics, when will teams be ready for AI to call the plays?

That feels doable to me. I can see how coverages would be quickly identified by cameras and offer play suggestions quickly for consideration. Feels doable now.

 

[blackbart]

When will it get to that you can just RFID tag college players and project their athletic data to successful NFL players?

That seems like a draft day game changer. Maybe we are already doing some of that, and probably are based on what I read there.

This caught my eye too;

With so many analytics, when will teams be ready for AI to call the plays?

That feels doable to me. I can see how coverages would be quickly identified by cameras and offer play suggestions quickly for consideration. Feels doable now.

I hope that never happens. There is a limit to what technology can add before the spirit of the game is broken.

I have better things to do than watch computers play games against each other and I hope everyone else does too.

 

[Mackeyser]

The first real digital scandal will have a coach communicating with coaches in the skybox calling plays as determined by AI.

I think we're a few years from that, but I can see that coming...

 

[kurtfaulk]

Bellyfat will be all over it