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The 2011 NFL collective bargaining agreement saw players agree to having their on-field location and health metrics tracked. [2] Next Gen Stats was developed by the NFL in partnership with Zebra Technologies and Wilson Sporting Goods. [1] The former is the NFL's official player tracking partner, with the partnership beginning in 2014.
PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, [1] is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical PECOTA entry.
STATS, Inc. was founded in April 1981 [3] by John Dewan, [4] who became the company's CEO. The company name is an acronym for "Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems". STATS was an outgrowth of the grassroots non-profit Project Scoresheet, a volunteer network created to collect baseball statistics. [5]
First NFL quarterback to reach 200 career wins (regular season and postseason combined): Peyton Manning vs. Carolina Panthers; February 7, 2016 First NFL quarterback to reach 250 career wins (regular season and postseason combined) : Tom Brady vs. Carolina Panthers ; September 20, 2020
The site provides career statistics for players, teams, and games, as well as records and NFL draft history. [1] [2] The company also publishes similar statistics websites for basketball, baseball, and hockey. [3] [4] PFR was established independently by Doug Drinen in 2000, and became part of Sports Reference in 2007.
Beginning in the 2007 baseball season, MLB started looking at technology to record detailed information regarding each pitch that is thrown in a game. This became known as the PITCHf/x system, which uses video cameras to record pitch speed at its release point and crossing the plate, location, and angle (if any) of a break.
The 1950 Los Angeles Rams, the best offensive team in NFL history in terms of average points (466 in 12 games, 38.8 PPG), scored 70 points, one of only three teams to ever do so. The following week, they beat the Detroit Lions 65–24, including an NFL record 41 points in one quarter. They are the only team in NFL history to score 60-or-more ...
Epstein, known for his role in ending two of baseball's most famous streaks (the Boston Red Sox curse of the Great Bambino in 2004, and as recently as the 2016 World Series, helping end the 108-year drought between World Series wins for the Chicago Cubs), is a member of a growing community in major league baseball who do not rely on years of ...