As we gear up for draft day and College Football Playoff lets take a look at an important metric for linemen. We know the 40 yard dash and 100 meters is something we associate with skill positions. What about the men in the trenches? Tracking Football has looked at years of data and what we […]
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New Export functionality
Tracking Football continues to innovative and provide efficient customer solutions. This week we released the ability to export searches into excel, which allows customers to upload to their database provider. Customers simply do a search. Below a search for LB’s that are a minimum of 215 pounds, ran 100m dash, high school class of 2019. […]
Searching for J.J. Watt body type and athleticism
There are many ways in which you can discover, verify, and compare players on our platform using search functions. Our high school database allows for discovery of thousands of prospects. You can sort high school prospects by PAI, height, weight, track data, and offers all through search filters. Verify player athleticism using our track and combine data. Compare […]
2018 NFL Draft and multi-sport in focus (Hudl blog)
Appreciate the article written by Coach Anthony Stone. The article’s focus was the latest NFL Draft data on multi-sport backgrounds of players drafted. He brings up some interesting points about the emphasis of multi-sport participation within schools has changed and attitudes towards specialization among coaches is different too. Here’s a link to the article: What […]
Athleticism on display at the NFL Combine
1,162 out of 1,321 (88%) Those are the numbers of players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, since 2015, that were high school multi-sport athletes according to a recent study conducted by Tracking Football. More importantly, the average Player Athletic Index score of invited players over the past four years was significantly higher than that of DI-FBS […]
Tracking Football partners with Europe’s Elite to expand recruiting markets for International players
Tracking Football is pleased to announce a partnership with Europe’s Elite. Europe’s Elite is an international leader in the football skills, combine, and events camps industry. This partnership will provide European athletes with unique athletic evaluations and top notch skill development. In addition, college football evaluators will gain access to athletic analytic insights, […]
Is NextGen NFL Fastest Player Data Surprising? Not Really…
The NFL now has NextGen Stats which record and calculate player running speed during games. The concept is new and interesting…gives viewers an idea of how fast a player is in pads during a variety of play scenarios. The question is how much does this data really tell us that we didn’t already know? For example, […]
SportTechie feature on Tracking Football’s PAI Score
Joe Lemire (SportTechie.com) spent the past week putting together a nice feature on Tracking Football’s PAI Score and scouting service. Link: Startup Scouting Service Uses Track & Field Data To Evaluate Football Prospects
Tracking Football presented at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
It was a tremendous honor for our company to be selected to participate and present at the 2017 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Start-Up Competition. Our co-founder, Aaron Hunter, and mathematician, Frank Bogaert, presented our proprietary methods of athletic analysis on football players along with our scouting service which has grown quickly since the start of the […]
MAC 2017 Football Recruiting – According to Tracking Football
Tracking Football has researched and athletically rated the MAC recruiting classes of 2017. Northern Illinois led the way this year with 7 recruits possessing PAI scores above 3.0. FBS programs recruiting large numbers of players with PAI scores above 3.0 have historically done well in the win/loss column. Below are two charts indicating the conference’s breakdown […]