NFL officials spotting the football isn’t going away despite several technological advances

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The US Football Association will participate in the Technology Competition Committee to take virtual measurements for a line for the next season, but officials will continue to discover football.

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There is no current technology that will help in determining the front progress, which has become a point of disagreement after Josh Allen stopped infiltrating in the fourth and fourth in the early fourth quarter of the Buffalo 32-29 loss to Kansas City in the AFC Championship game.

The league tested the Sony’s Hawk-Eye tracking services to a line to a line in the opening and in the background during the normal season. The optimal tracking system notes the official immediately if the first is obtained after observing the ball by hand.

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Keyword yet. This technology replaces the measuring the chain. NFL has long used two bright orange sticks and a chain – the chain gang – to measure the first landing. This method will remain in the breadth of backup.

“What this technology cannot do is to solve the human element in determining the place of ending forward,” Kimberly Wields, CEO of the US Football Association, told Associated Press on Friday. “There will always be a human official discovering the ball. Once the ball is monitored, the line technology to the code is already standing the same. So I think it may have been a point of confusion about what technology can do and what you cannot do. There will always be a human element because of the progress conversation to Front.

Fields said an average of 12 measurements that were conducted every week during the normal season. The new technology had dropped the time it spent in its measurement from 75 seconds to 35 seconds.

The American Football Association balls have been equipped with fine chips of the Opture since 2017, which occupies the next Gen Stats data product in the US Football Association. Chips are also installed on players ’platforms. It provides many data and standards that help clubs, media and fans with the player’s evaluation and team performance analysis. But these chips cannot determine where the player is treated, whether the player is begging by calling or the team that has a loose ball to the accuracy needed for use.

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The league also started using border cameras in the 5th week to help restart reviews. The cameras were installed on both the 30 stadium along the final line, the goal line and the rhetoric. Using is limited to grades, playing with less than two minutes and turning.

A discussion of expanding the scope of its use of coaches ’challenges and restarting assistance, must be approved by the Competition Committee.

Fields said that the league also tried to provide smart watches for judges to help obtain objective information so that they can make decisions faster, specifically in terms of his connection to the hour.

“We want to make the game effective and more accurate,” said Fields. “The things we do about technology, if you don’t make the process better, if you don’t help our officials, we will not do that. All we do is to conduct a strict test to ensure that we make things easier and more efficient.”

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