The tracker overcomes one major difference between American football and soccer ... For now, it can track a ball on a football field within about two feet of its actual location.

From the onset, the team knew that a system like FIFA’s camera-based ball tracking wouldn’t work for them. “American football ... “Trying to locate a football on the field is like trying ...

However, American football is unique in that the field exists independently of the ball. That is to say ... Cola fields or blue Chase bank fields. images from Joel Rottman’s “slingshot ...