Imagine an NFL player who receives a crushing blow to the head. Far away, a computer detects a trend showing that other players have suffered injuries on similar plays. That information could rewrite rulebooks to eliminate the play in question, changing the way football is played. That’s the idea behind a new deal between the NFL and Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., that aims to leverage the tech giant’s data operations—using the league’s growing array of data sets—into a new approach to solving football’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 05, 2019 20:26 UTC