AWS and NHL unveil new NHL EDGE IQ Ice Tilt metric to help measure momentum during the game

The article discusses a new NHL EDGE IQ Ice Tilt metric developed by the National Hockey League (NHL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to measure momentum during hockey games. This metric provides real-time visibility into which team has the edge and by what margin at any given point during game play.

Specifically, the article covers:

• How Ice Tilt works by analyzing player and puck positional data along with game events data to calculate a rolling average of the center of action gravity every two minutes
• The technical architecture using AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink to ingest and process data streams in near real-time
• The significance of low latency to deliver the metric with less than 1 second of delay
• How Ice Tilt is the fourth advanced metric developed from the NHL EDGE IQ powered by AWS collaboration, following Opportunity Analysis, Face-Off Probability, and Shot and Save Analytics
• How broadcasters can use Ice Tilt to drive exciting visual representations and enhance the viewing experience