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1 hour ago, ECHornet said:

Good. About time we started using tech to improve games. A chip for first downs and breaking the goal line would solve time-costly issues once it’s ironed out. 
 

Also ready for automated strike zones in baseball. 

It won’t ever happen because of how massive the sports betting market has become. Multi billion dollar industry isn’t going to leave things to chance. 

Technology keeps getting better and better and yet the percentage of blown / missed calls continues to increase. Sorry, but I don’t think the correlation between that and the growing sports betting market is a coincidence.

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The chain measurement is dramatic. 

Calling for a measurement was like a free timeout. 

They could freeze the video image and measure exactly where the ball was when the runner was down.

Really helpful when holding ball out while running out of bounds.

 

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Referees are (very) slowly becoming phased out, at the least not on the field. Some argue the ‘fun unpredictable traditions of the game’ but I doubt any one of these athletes support anything less accurate or technological methods to call a game their livelihood depends on. As a fan I agree, I want accuracy, not feelings.

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Good. We have the technology to make the game better, and we need to implement it sooner rather than later so that all the kinks can be worked out for the betterment of the product going well into the 21st century.

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4 hours ago, PantherOnTheProwl1523 said:

The chains were more of a formality and always apart of the game.  

Many mention the chip in the ball so I would assume that will also help with erroneous spots. 

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7 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Doesn't really sound like it would make much difference, unfortunately. 

There are solutions to solving the problem in the NFL but they would likely be very expensive, so I doubt you will see them anytime soon.

It won't make a difference.

I read the article and it also said this :

The NFL already has a chip in every football, but it uses those chips only for its Next Gen Stats tracking data, and not for officiating. That’s because the chips in the middle of every ball just aren’t accurate enough to locate where a football is to the inch. The data works fine as a good approximation of where the ball is, give or take the length of one football. But it doesn’t tell you whether a third down play just barely picked up the first down, or whether the offense should be facing fourth-and-inches.

 

So unless they create footballs that have chips located at the tips of either side as well as the middle (which will be very costly to make), I don't foresee the NFL going this route.

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52 minutes ago, glenwo2 said:

It won't make a difference.

I read the article and it also said this :

The NFL already has a chip in every football, but it uses those chips only for its Next Gen Stats tracking data, and not for officiating. That’s because the chips in the middle of every ball just aren’t accurate enough to locate where a football is to the inch. The data works fine as a good approximation of where the ball is, give or take the length of one football. But it doesn’t tell you whether a third down play just barely picked up the first down, or whether the offense should be facing fourth-and-inches.

 

So unless they create footballs that have chips located at the tips of either side as well as the middle (which will be very costly to make), I don't foresee the NFL going this route.

There are a bunch of different ways to skin that cat but they are all costly. The NFL isn't going to spend a bunch of money on that unless it helps their bottom line.

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5 hours ago, glenwo2 said:

It won't make a difference.

I read the article and it also said this :

The NFL already has a chip in every football, but it uses those chips only for its Next Gen Stats tracking data, and not for officiating. That’s because the chips in the middle of every ball just aren’t accurate enough to locate where a football is to the inch. The data works fine as a good approximation of where the ball is, give or take the length of one football. But it doesn’t tell you whether a third down play just barely picked up the first down, or whether the offense should be facing fourth-and-inches.

 

So unless they create footballs that have chips located at the tips of either side as well as the middle (which will be very costly to make), I don't foresee the NFL going this route.

it's not like better tech doesn't exist. they're using the less accurate tech because it's good enough for it's current purpose. when you're just tracking general stats being off a few inches is fine.

still, there's tech that exists to be accurate down to a fraction of a centimeter. WAY more accurate than having a ref spot the ball. they definitely could implement this if they wanted.

i'm all for it, watching a ref just give away an extra yard and a half and a free first down is some serious BS.

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