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Sports verified Verified Outcome TRL 9

Digital Athlete: Injury Prevention Simulation

domain Client: The largest professional American football league handshake Provider: AWS schedule Deploy: Q3 2022 (Launch)
89 Impact
Enterprise Ready
Evidence Score: 5/10
Strength: High

Executive Summary

ANALYST: COI RESEARCH

To address high injury rates, the league partnered with a cloud provider to build the 'Digital Athlete'. This platform ingests data from RFID tags (shoulder pads), video analysis, and play surface data to run millions of simulations. It identifies specific play scenarios or equipment configurations that correlate with high injury risk.

rate_review Analyst Verdict

"A definitive application of AI for risk mitigation in high-contact environments. The shift from reactive medical treatment to predictive scenario modeling allows for rule changes and equipment mandates (e.g., Guardian Caps) backed by empirical data."

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Full Audit Report Available Includes Risk Register, Technical Specs & Compliance Data.

warning The Challenge

Concussions and lower extremity injuries threaten player safety and the league's long-term viability. Medical teams lacked a unified view of the variables causing injuries—whether it was speed, impact angle, cleat type, or weather conditions.

psychology The Solution

The league utilized AWS to aggregate 'Next Gen Stats' (RFID telemetry) and computer vision data. They trained machine learning models to reconstruct injury events and simulate 'what-if' scenarios (e.g., 'Would this player have been injured if they were wearing a different helmet?').

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Integrations
Zebra Technologies (RFID), EMR Systems
Deployment Model
Public Cloud
Data Classification
Health / Biometric
Estimated TCO / ROI
High
POC Summary (2019-01-01 to 2021-01-01)

"Initial pilot on punt return rules."

shield Risk Register & Mitigation

Risk Factor Severity Mitigation Strategy
Model Bias High Third-party audit of algorithms; medical board review.
Player Profiling Medium Data anonymized for league-wide analysis; team view restricted to own roster.

trending_up Impact Trajectory

Audited value realization curve

Ingestion of 6+ seasons of telemetry data Verified Outcome
Primary KPIReduction in practice concussions by >50% (reported)
Audit CycleCreation of verifiable equipment safety standards

policy Compliance & Gov

  • Standards: HIPAA (Medical overlays), CBA
  • Maturity (TRL): 9
  • Evidence Score: 5/10
  • Data Class: Health / Biometric

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Verified Case Study
PDF • Version 1
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Technical Audit
PDF • Audited
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The "Blind Verification" Protocol

How we verified these outcomes for The largest professional American football league without exposing sensitive IP or identities.

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1. Raw Evidence

Audit ID: #PRIV-779
Evidence: Direct SQL Logs
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2. Verified Asset

Outcome: Verified
Ref ID: #COI-779

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