A new Monday Night Football broadcast will offer an alternate telecast that presents the game live from the All-22 camera angle that shows the entire field, coupled with on-screen analytics and commentary. It’s called MNF Playbook with Next Gen Stats, and it premieres next week.
To develop the show, ESPN partnered with sports data analytics platform Adrenaline, which uses an AI model trained on hundreds of thousands of NFL plays to predict run-pass probabilities, blitz likelihoods, and more.
“The data dynamically changes and updates in real time,” ESPN producer Andy Jacobson tells The Verge. “You’ll see that on the screen as we’ve create …
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