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Whenever microchips in balls come up, someone has to point out that there are like half a dozen other, more important judgment calls involved in spotting the ball than knowing the absolute position of the ball. And today, I guess it’s going to be me. Also the microchip would have an actual position within the ball, and the rule is not “get the center of the microchip over the line”, so it wouldn’t even be ruling out a judgment call.
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Put the microchip in both ends of the ball and also the fingertips of all players.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:32
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swickles posted:https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1772300839471751495?t=3WPkBINGMMkPBsSIeF-3LA&s=19 why do AUS/NZ get Eagles and Rams and the Rams getting all of China while five teams split Switzerland lol what
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Mar 25, 2024 21:33
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dingo with a joint posted:pleased to see that new zealand has graduated from the "just the rams" set, and now gets an actual second team. positively delighted that that second team is the eagles. My husband is from Philly and half-kiwi and is currently over there, so you can thank him, sure he had something to do with it I like the Germanics being into Lions football (I know a lot of it is random nonsense but)
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Mar 25, 2024 21:36
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Gonz posted:Put the microchip in both ends of the ball and also the fingertips of all players. The ball doesn’t have to be advanced tip first. If you want to make the ball some sort of prism, you could put a microchip in every vertex.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:36
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It would take Star Trek level technology to do what people are imagining when they say "just put a chip in the ball!" I don't think people understand the complexity that would be involved and the current limitations of technology.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:37
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:It would take Star Trek level technology to do what people are imagining when they say "just put a chip in the ball!" we need to use point clouds
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Mar 25, 2024 21:39
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*in Seinfeld voice* Why not just make the whole ball the microchip?
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Mar 25, 2024 21:44
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I guess the Ravens don't care about the international market
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Mar 25, 2024 21:45
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Let Amazon AI spot the ball. If it can schedule the season that gave us six Jets prime time games, it can do anything.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:46
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Amazon AI can highlight players it thinks will rush the passer and be correct almost 7% of the time so I trust it with spots
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Mar 25, 2024 21:47
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rjmccall posted:The ball doesn’t have to be advanced tip first. It is mathematically trivial to calculate where the furthest-forward point of the ball is if the microchip has a simple orientation sensor, given that the microchip itself knows where it is installed in the ball.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:50
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Elon can design a microchipped ball that only catches fire two or three times a game
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Mar 25, 2024 21:51
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Using a measuring device with fixed material instead of chains might be a good place to start before we try to put ChatGPT into a football.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:52
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Papercut posted:It is mathematically trivial to calculate where the furthest-forward point of the ball is if the microchip has a simple orientation sensor, given that the microchip itself knows where it is installed in the ball. How do you know when the player is down?
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Mar 25, 2024 21:52
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Hand Row posted:How do you know when the player is down? more chips obviously, don't be a negative ninny
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Mar 25, 2024 21:55
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what the hell does that graphic mean, the bills can’t market themselves in Canada now? I know a ton of people who’ve gone there it’s right at the border what a weird omission. e: I assume they’re trying to build the brand of teams that don’t already have followings? maybe?
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Mar 25, 2024 21:56
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Hand Row posted:How do you know when the player is down? Presumably something linked to when the ref blows the whistle, but yeah that's the more complicated part
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Mar 25, 2024 21:58
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Papercut posted:Presumably something linked to when the ref blows the whistle, but yeah that's the more complicated part And how does the ball know where it is on the field in relation to the line of scrimmage? Please don't say GPS.
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Mar 25, 2024 21:59
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The NHL on FOX glow puck technology is out there, waiting to be picked up and improved upon.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:02
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By knowing where it’s not
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:And how does the ball know where it is on the field in relation to the line of scrimmage? Please don't say GPS. Put a chip or whatever at LoS posts? That’s not Star Trek tech, that’s like wwii proximity fuses level
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Mar 25, 2024 22:04
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FYI there is already an RFID chip in the football. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2023/02/13/Technology/nfl-combine-zebra-technologies-rfid-chips.aspx quote:Zebra has also embedded an RFID chip into every football since 2017, which can help calculate a quarterback’s throwing velocity, initial airspeed, average airspeed, revolutions, spin rate and revolutions per minute quote:"RFID technology is excellent, but has limitations. Let me state it this way: an instrumented football has a location accuracy of sub six inches."
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Mar 25, 2024 22:07
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After review the ball sensor malfunctioned. By default the ruling on the field when this occurs is you get hosed despite a common sense solution existing.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:08
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I think there are *much* bigger fish to fry when it comes to officiating than spotting the ball, fwiw
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Mar 25, 2024 22:08
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ghosthorse posted:what the hell does that graphic mean, the bills can’t market themselves in Canada now? I know a ton of people who’ve gone there it’s right at the border what a weird omission. For Canada, all the teams chosen have borders with Canada so I don't think that's quite it unless they're trying to pitch the Seahawks to folks in Toronto/Calgary/Edmonton and the Vikings and Lions to B.C. Mexico is also mostly teams that are already popular there or in the Latinx community in the US. Everything else is pretty baffling to me though. Poor Ireland though, doomed to Jets fandom for eternity.
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Papercut posted:I think there are *much* bigger fish to fry when it comes to officiating than spotting the ball, fwiw Spotting the ball and operating the clock are like the most fundamental jobs of the refs, even before calling penalties And they can't even do that right half the time
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Mar 25, 2024 22:12
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Giving Nigeria the Browns looks like some complex long form slur.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:15
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It's weird that there are 7 teams missing
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Giving Nigeria the Browns looks like some complex long form slur. Have they not suffered enough
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CharlestheHammer posted:France getting the Saints is called synergy baby Qui Que!
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Mar 25, 2024 22:21
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sharknado slashfic posted:It's weird that there are 7 teams missing The packers as a collective refuse to partake in this economic imperialism
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CharlestheHammer posted:The packers as a collective refuse to partake in this economic imperialism The Packers already are the most popular NFL team in many countries, there's no real need to give them an extra push.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:23
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Chargers spend all that time and effort animeing up their fanbase and they don't even get a piece of Japan? C'mon.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:And how does the ball know where it is on the field in relation to the line of scrimmage? Please don't say GPS. you just need local positioning for this. perhaps a simple, ruggedized measuring device such as chains?
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Mar 25, 2024 22:28
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Every time we go through this, it turns out that the people complaining about chains think that the chain procedure relies on the dudes carrying out the chains running perfectly straight onto the field.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:44
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2024 NFL Offseason - Ah poo poo we invented
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swickles posted:https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1772300839471751495?t=3WPkBINGMMkPBsSIeF-3LA&s=19 Glad to know the upcoming saints season will get to feature actual frenchmen being tortured.
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indigi posted:why do AUS/NZ get Eagles and Rams Yeah that was the first thing that jumped out (after "wtf is this"). Sure let's give 2 entire continents including the most populous nation on earth to one team, and split Austria's 9 million people across like 1/4 of the league Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Giving Nigeria the Browns looks like some complex long form slur. 
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According to reddit (lol) teams have to bid for the rights to the other countries which explains why some are missing. Also it appears that the Browns keep making odd financial decisions.
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