Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hockblogger Mornings. I am Brian Nemhauser. You can find me and all that we do on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, at HockBlogger. And if you have not followed us there, you should take a chance and do it. You will get some good stuff. And you can listen to audio versions of the pod on apple podcast

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As always, today's episode is brought to you by prize picks. We'll play around with prize picks a little bit later,

but we've got a fun show. Starting a little bit earlier than planned, partially because I wanted to

play for you the actual project of the person who's going to be

joining us, Luca Faraz, who won the big datable.

Kind of wanted to get the timing right, didn't quite nail it.

So what this episode is going to go into is not all the way, but kind of an opening salvo into how technology, data,

modeling, AI is starting to create distinct advantages and disadvantages across the NFL based

off which teams are really investing and where they're getting that

return. So I'm going to try to give you a little bit of an idea of where this is starting to go

for the NFL. We're going to kick it off with Luca's project that won the big data bowl this

year at the Combine just a little bit ago. And then we will welcome Luca in to talk about his project.

After we finished with Luca, I will kind of broaden

the picture for you a little bit more about where

this is starting to go for the NFL and cover other places

that we might not have touched on with Luca.

So without further ado, let me play for you the slime project,

which won the Big Data Bowl.

Here it is from Luca Faraz, not that long ago in Indianapolis.

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