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Identifying defense coverage schemes in NFL’s Next Gen Stats

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Quantitative evaluation We utilize 2018–2020 season data for model training and validation, and 2021 season data for model evaluation. We design a K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classifier to automatically identify these plays and send them for expert review. Each season consists of around 17,000 plays.

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