![]() To be exact, they found footballs that had more weight distributed on the far ends of the ball - such as "The Duke" - had a larger MOI, making it more resistant to spin or rotation. They downloaded the corresponding QBX Connected data to their laptops and discovered the secret sauce to spin rate and other metrics: MOI, or Moment of Inertia. Hare’s team took sensor-infused footballs on the road - all with various sizes and specs - and asked college-level QBs to throw 7-yard outs, 18-yard seams and 35-yard go patterns or fade routes. ![]() The Omega’s evolution was tedious, obviously, and started with quarterback test drives. "How is the ball spinning, how hard was it thrown, how does it maintain its flight characteristics throughout the air, an estimate of how far that it traveled. "There’s no beacons, there’s no GPS signals, everything is inside the ball," Hare told SportTechie. The premise: the more Patrick Mahomes’ there are…the better. While Wilson Sporting Goods stills makes the iconic NFL football known as "The Duke," a separate brainiac division of the company called Wilson LABS has invented a ball that could be known as "The Sensor." Actually, the new smart football has been dubbed "The Omega," a connected chameleon of a product designed to give quarterbacks even more of an advantage every time they step on the field.īaseball may have made the term "spin rate" famous, but Wilson’s engineers have determined - after inserting accelerometers into this football’s bladder - that spin rate is precisely the reason someone like Patrick Mahomes can throw laser seam routes effortlessly into the wind.Īrmed with that raw data, an aerodynamics research engineer named Dan Hare - now Wilson’s manager of R&D - spent four years choreographing a proprietary REVTECH project that scientifically increases a quarterback’s spin rate between 45 and 60 revolutions per minute, equating to-3 to-8%. ![]() Courtesy of WilsonĪ smart football - or, at least, the smartest football yet - hits the market in January, and spirals may never be the same again. By moving weight to the middle of the football, Wilson LABS was able to produce a dramatic increase in the ball’s spin rate.
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