David Newton blog about Carolina's use of on-field player GPS

[KSpan]

Kind of interesting that Gettleman credits it with the team being healthy (at least from non-contact injuries) at the end of the season.

Gettleman referred to a rash of hamstring injuries early in the year to key players such as running backs DeAngelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart and Fozzy Whittaker before the team began to fully utilize GPS.

“As soon as we got on that GPS and really understood what it was telling us ... we were pretty stinking healthy at the end of the year," he said.

http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=carolina-panthers&id=12339

[ThPantherFan]

Now that is interesting.  Strangely, a little over a year ago, I was in a conversation with a stranger at a gas pump here in Asheville.  He had a Panthers shirt on so we discussed Panthers.  He mentioned something new the Panthers were going to try relative to monitoring players and he predicted a revolution in player health.  I just played it off as someone trying to sound important.  Well, I guess he was important.

 

This sounds like a very good idea.  I wonder if someone will relate it to some kind of cheating?

[Montsta]

Seems to me you could couple these devices with a few MIT guys on the payroll that do analytics and you could come up with some interesting offensive and defensive schemes. You'll know exactly how long it takes your guys to get to where they need to go on each play and adjust their starting position accordingly.

For instance, instead of two deep safeties the same distance, this allows you to play one 3 yards closer to the line and maybe a yard closer to the sideline because you have a real time statistical grasp of how long it takes them to cover a certain area of the field.

Think of the defensive shifts that are in baseball now due to saber metrics. Could be the same kind of deal with personnel shifts.

A yard could be the distance between a touchdown and a pick six.

[PandaPancake]

[KintnerBoy]

What is GPS?

[lola]

That is genius.

[Bj-Monster23]

What the Panthers is using is analytics. The Panthers aren't the first team to use the GPS as Gettleman says, their is some NBA teams that use analytics like the Phoenix Suns and a couple of others. What it does is basically tells you what's going on with a player. It tells you how hard he has been working and if the player is at risk of injury. It's basically used to help player performance.

[Snake]

Getting ready for Bluetooth gate. Who wants to steal some signals from other teams!

[KSpan]

What the Panthers is using is analytics. The Panthers aren't the first team to use the GPS as Gettleman says, their is some NBA teams that use analytics like the Phoenix Suns and a couple of others. What it does is basically tells you what's going on with a player. It tells you how hard he has been working and if the player is at risk of injury. It's basically used to help player performance.

Right. Last season was the first time these were used in the NFL - the Panthers were one of the pilot teams.

[CelibatePimp]

Seems to me you could couple these devices with a few MIT guys on the payroll that do analytics and you could come up with some interesting offensive and defensive schemes. You'll know exactly how long it takes your guys to get to where they need to go on each play and adjust their starting position accordingly.

For instance, instead of two deep safeties the same distance, this allows you to play one 3 yards closer to the line and maybe a yard closer to the sideline because you have a real time statistical grasp of how long it takes them to cover a certain area of the field.

Think of the defensive shifts that are in baseball now due to saber metrics. Could be the same kind of deal with personnel shifts.

A yard could be the distance between a touchdown and a pick six.

 

That does not account for the opponent's speed. They may cover in 3 secs but what is the RB is gone past that safety in 3?

[KittyLover]

Seems to me you could couple these devices with a few MIT guys on the payroll that do analytics and you could come up with some interesting offensive and defensive schemes. You'll know exactly how long it takes your guys to get to where they need to go on each play and adjust their starting position accordingly.

For instance, instead of two deep safeties the same distance, this allows you to play one 3 yards closer to the line and maybe a yard closer to the sideline because you have a real time statistical grasp of how long it takes them to cover a certain area of the field.

Think of the defensive shifts that are in baseball now due to saber metrics. Could be the same kind of deal with personnel shifts.

A yard could be the distance between a touchdown and a pick six.

I assume they are.  Also showing who has better game speed vs practice speed.  I would love to see the speed difference between the secondary in the first half of the year vs the second half of the year.  

[TheSpecial1]

Apparently it really works.

[AceBoogie]

Gettleman be on that money ball poo

[L-TownCat]

That does not account for the opponent's speed. They may cover in 3 secs but what is the RB is gone past that safety in 3?

Wouldn't that just be considered the variable in the equation?