The NFL’s Unique Approach to Machine Learning

Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills.

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Hi there, it’s Jim Gaddy, one of the deputy editors here at Pursuits. It’s Wild Card Weekend, and if you don’t know what that means, you might want to skip to the next section.

But if you’re one of the 30 million or so people who will be tuning in to the National Football League playoff games on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, there’s a fascinating angle on machine learning that most people don’t know about the popular sport in the US.