This Major Qualifying Project seeks to advance player evaluations in the National Football League (NFL) by transforming wide receiver positional tracking data during the 2022 NFL Scouting Combine into meaningful metrics. To achieve this, our team developed a systematic approach to preprocessing data that utilizes specific thresholds to identify and segment drills. A similar process was applied to routes throughout the 2022-2023 NFL season. Following this, metrics were created on the drills and routes to represent players' movements. Finally, several techniques, such as correlation and regression, were performed alongside the creation of a route prediction model.

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Creator

• Houskeeper, Katie
• Hopman, Mia
• Dzwil, Matthew

Subject

• Industry
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 105991
• E-project-042723-111546

Palavra-chave

• Sports Analysis
• National Football League
• Data Science
• Positional Tracking
• Football
• NFL

Advisor

• Li, Yanhua
• Ching, Kenny

Year

• 2023

Sponsor

• National Football League

Date created

• 2023-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Data Science

Source

• E-project-042723-111546

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificação

• 2023-06-21