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September 20, 2004
Geeks and the NFL
This post has a good post about how computers are changing the game of football. It links to a 60 minutes piece that, I suppose, was about the same thing.
Computers in the NFL
The Secret Of Their NFL Success: 60 Minutes had a great segment tonight about NFL coaches and the role they play in their team's success. Apparently computers are playing an huge role in NFL team strategy.
They showed John Fox, coach of the Carolina Panthers, in front of his machine. He had a VB-ish app on the screen, and it apparently contained digital video of every game his upcoming opponent (the Packers, in this case) played last year. He said it could store three years worth.
Every play of every game had been analyzed, annotated, and fit into some data structure. Fox could query the data to find, for instance, video of every goal line offense the Packers mounted last year ("WHERE line_of_scrimmage < 20 AND side_of_field = 'opponent'" perhaps?). He could just scroll through them, and view the video he wanted to see. (Via Gadetopia)
Posted by Jesse at September 20, 2004 2:47 PM