Those "next-gen stats" on NFL broadcasts are pretty useless, but there's actually a ton of interesting things you can do with the Zebra data that tracks player movement with chips in each player's shoulder pads. Nik Oza from the Georgetown Sports Analysis club got access to similar data as part of the 2016 MIT Sloan Conference "Hackathon" and shares here some of the things teams will be able to do with this tracking data. No, we're not going to be able to do any of this around here; there's a reason we're called "outsiders." But you may commence slobbering over the possibilities of getting this kind of data on every NFL player in three, two, one.
Visualizing Wide Receiver Routes with Player Tracking Data
