In a sport where fine margins often mean the difference between victory and defeat, having the extra 1% advantage can mean everything in the NFL. The sport already enjoys its fair share of statistics and data analysis, but compared to the likes of MLB and NBA, it could be right to say that American Football isn’t quite as data-friendly – yet. Now, though, the ever-increasing partnership between the league and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could be set to transform the game – not just for fans and broadcasters, who benefit from richer statistical analysis, but also for the players themselves, with AWS technology perhaps quite literally set to keep them in the game for longer.
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