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Just as technology advances off the field, the NFL is progressing technology on the field by integrating real time tracking of players. Every NFL player wears devices during games that track their location on the field. During the 2015 season, the NFL created Next Gen Stats to use this data, but the question is:

What can YOU do with it?

Challenge: Develop the next generation of engaging NFL stories using the provided NFL Next Gen Stats Data. Using the raw location data, you’ll demo new innovations of real time game pattern recognition that educates the fans and demonstrates the game in ways that have never been seen before. Teams should avoid simply visualizing the data or playback of data.

What information or patterns can you surface out of the data that can provide new insight into the game, educate the fan, or demonstrate the game in ways never before seen?

Ideas being tossed around include:

• Create a new formula to rate players such as a new quarterback rating or player group efficiency
• Identify common patterns such as where players in certain positions spend their time or what paths players run during plays
• Automatically calculate statistics or descriptions of what occurred on plays in the game
• The demonstration of your data can include visualization or a demo of the processing of the data that outputs the final results