The NHL is adopting in-game faceoff win probabilities for broadcasts, a significant leap for the league in data analysis and technology.
“Face-off Probability” leverages data collected by NHL Edge, the league’s puck and player tracking technology, to create a graphic that displays the chances that a player wins a faceoff or a team gains possession of the puck.
It’s one of the first machine-learning stats the league has developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services, whose artificial intelligence can create in-game probabilities in subsecond speed.
“It’s the first time that the NHL and AWS have come together to build something that will precede an event and offer a probability for whether or not that event will occur,” Dave Lehanski, NHL executive vice president for business development and innovation, told ESPN on Monday. “Typically, we’re taking data from an event and quickly…
