"Next Gen Stats began in 2015, when the National Football League deployed RFID chips in player shoulder pads and even in the football itself, enabling the league to capture location data multiple times per second through sensors installed throughout stadiums."
"With the recent addition of 4K cameras to NFL venues, the system can now capture not just player position on the field but the precise position of shoulders, elbows, knees, and hands, generating 29 data points per player 60 times per second."
"That data is processed by in-stadium AWS servers in roughly 700 milliseconds, then sent to the cloud to feed machine learning models that run in under 100 milliseconds. The result is analytics delivered to broadcasters within about a second, shorter than the NFL's typical broadcast delay."
Next Gen Stats uses RFID chips placed in player shoulder pads and the football to capture location data multiple times per second since 2015. Stadium sensors and 4K cameras now record precise body-part positions, producing 29 data points per player 60 times per second. Dozens of AWS machine learning models translate raw sensor output into comprehensible statistics in real time. In-stadium servers process data in about 700 milliseconds, then cloud models run in under 100 milliseconds, enabling analytics to reach broadcasters in roughly one second. Broadcasters and coaches access dashboards and natural-language query tools for historical and real-time insights.
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