With the NFL Draft happening this evening we wanted to provide an overview of what we’re doing with Telemetry Sports in football. Two weeks ago in our co-branded webinar with Telemetry Sports, we explored how we gather football data at Sportlogiq, our partnership with Telemetry Sports, and how our data is used within their platform. The full webinar is available here, but we’ve also taken the time to summarize the key points below.
How we collect NCAA football data at Sportlogiq
We focus on game events and tracking (coordinates of the players on the field). To do this we use computer vision to facilitate optical tracking for all 22 players on the field for the duration of the play. Because we do this through the video feeds, there is no need for sensors and therefore no risk of breaking or malfunction.
We track in between the feet, whereas Next Gen Stats tracks players via sensors in the shoulder pads. We use the All-22 feed using the sideline view and endzone view. This lets us see the players’ numbers, we also require a participation list for each game so we can see who actually played.