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NFL Players Association

Risk Management

The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), which represents and protects professional football players, is creating ways to keep players safe during the offseason.

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Reducing time spent studying plays by up to 73% with Azure AI Services
Reviewing about 256 hours of raw video footage weekly
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), which represents and protects professional football players, is creating ways to keep players safe during the offseason.
With each of the league's 32 teams capturing about 256 hours of footage collectively each week, the NFLPA recognized that manual video review routines were not sustainable if it wanted to provide the best possible enforcement for its members.

Reported impact

Business outcome

For both the 2022 and 2023 offseasons, the NFLPA worked on a solution using Azure AI Services and Azure App Service . The tool can watch the footage of 32 teams, each comprising 22 players on-screen, and identify potential rule violations for the NFLPA to review.

  • Compliance
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Risk Reduction

Solution

The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), which represents and protects professional football players, is creating ways to keep players safe during the offseason. The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), which represents and protects professional football players, is creating ways to keep players safe during the offseason. Determined to provide players with better rule enforcement and increase efficiency for its staff, the NFLPA turned to Microsoft and Microsoft partner Xoriant to help develop a solution. The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) is committed to ensuring security for professional football players, including reviewing video footage taken during offseason practice sessions to discover and manage any rule violations. The implementation centers on Azure AI Services, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, Azure to support risk management workflows.

Solution architecture

4 components · 2 layers
  1. Compute
    • Azure AI Services Supplies prebuilt speech, vision, or language capabilities within the solution.
    • Azure Provides the underlying cloud infrastructure, identity, and managed services for the solution.
  2. Serving
    • Power BI Delivers dashboards and visualizations to business users and decision-makers.
    • Microsoft Teams Acts as the collaboration surface for prompts, meetings, and shared knowledge.

Architecture clues

  • The NFLPA formed in 1956 to represent the rights of professional football players.
  • The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), which represents and protects professional football players, is creating ways to keep players safe during the offseason.
  • The National Football League Players Association and Xoriant use Azure AI Services to provide protection to players across 32 teams

Evidence from the source

For both the 2022 and 2023 offseasons, the NFLPA worked on a solution using Azure AI Services and Azure App Service .
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) is committed to ensuring security for professional football players
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), which represents and protects professional football players, is creating ways to keep players safe during the offseason.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 81/100 reference value · 82% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value81/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth15/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity16/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    3 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale5/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence82%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence15/20
    3 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    NFL Players Association customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1800598946211744899-nflpa-azure-ai-services-nonprofit-en-united-states
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Aug 14, 2024
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Date evidence

  • Published on source page Aug 14, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.

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