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WE LOVE THE GAME*WE LOVE TO CODE*NFL HACKATHON

#NFLhackathon

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Challenges

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?

For the first time ever the NFL is pulling the curtain back on its data for developers.

Challenge

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 data processing that outputs the final results

Prizes

Grand Prize

Grand Prize - $10,000 and the team will fly roundtrip to the NFL LA campus for a day, demo their hack to NFL engineers & staff, and tour the NFL Media Field House & Gridiron Studios of the NFL Network


1st Runner-up

$5,000

2nd Runner-up

$2,500

Meet the Refs

  • Linda Tong
    VP, PRODUCT & INNOVATION
    NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

  • Perkins Miller
    CDO, HEAD OF MEDIA OPERATIONS
    NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

  • Al Guido
    PRESIDENT
    SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

  • QUENTIN CLARK
    CTO, SAP

rules

Schedule

Wednesday, February 17th

6:30-8:30 pm Pre-NFL Hackathon Virtual Session via WebEx and Release of first Sample of Data

Friday, February 19th

6:00- 8:00 pm Happy Hour/Hackathon Kick-Off with NFL Engineers!

Sunday, February 21st

7:00am - Breakfast
11:30am - Lunch
12:00pm - Submission Deadline
1:00pm - Judging Begins
2:30pm - Awards
3:00pm - Closing

JUDGING

contact

Got questions? This is a contact sport don't be afraid to get up in our grill!

Address:

Terra Gallery
511 Harrison St,
San Francisco,
CA 94105 1st Floor