We are excited to announce that the New York Football Giants have partnered with SkillCorner, leveraging our tracking data and metrics to gain an objective lens into athleticism as they evaluate college and professional prospects and incorporate the data into their decision-making process.

"We do a lot of work on college prospects both on and off the field, and SkillCorner's data gives us an objective lens into athleticism while guys are actually playing the game," said Ty Siam, the Giants' Director of Football Data & Innovation. "It's important to champion when the data aligns with our scouts' experienced judgement, not only when they misalign. Having the data gives everyone a baseline, but how it is connected into the process is the real edge teams will create.

What made SkillCorner the best choice for the New York Giants was them being a company that valued and understood the importance of quality data, with an eagerness to provide metrics and analysis that can be incorporated into our decision making."

The Giants have already put that approach to work. One example came around wide receiver Malachi Fields, whose 40 meter dash time raised questions on paper, but whose in-game tracking data told a different story.

"I heard some of the commentary that said the 40 time is a concern for people, but when you do the miles per hour, which we get the tracking data for now, that's fast," said head coach John Harbaugh. "He tracks a lot faster. It's the equivalent of a mid-4.4 type 40 time. He's running over 21 miles an hour, consistently in games. He's also got the ability to stop, drop his weight, change direction, and get out of breaks."

Assistant General Manager Brandon Brown pointed to the same example when describing how the front office uses the data.

"When Malachi ran 4.62 to 4.64, whatever watch you're on at the combine, through AI we'd have an E40, which our analytics department introduced in terms of extrapolating the game feel," Brown said. "We knew this is a guy that was almost 220 pounds, that his game speed was in the 4.4 range, and we could leverage that data to help us make predictive and encouraging decisions that may stray from what the human numbers tell us. The human number told us 4.62 to 4.64, and we knew there was an opportunity point because if everyone had that data, everyone may not have our other data points. We leverage that and use that to our advantage."

Brown emphasized that the data supplements, rather than replaces, traditional evaluation. "We're always going to trust our eyes. Our eyes and our exposures are always going to be paramount to any other supplemental tool. But hey, if there's something different, something that's an outlier, we're going to use that. We use that to make educated decisions and really to poke holes in our process."

That kind of deliberate, process-driven implementation hasn't gone unnoticed with the SkillCorner team.

"The Giants have been fantastic partners to us," said Hayden Schuh of SkillCorner. "It's been awesome to see their methodical and strategic approach to implementing SkillCorner tracking data and metrics into their player scouting, evaluation, and decision-making process."

As the Giants continue to build out their evaluation process, SkillCorner is proud to provide the tracking data and metrics helping their front office make confident, informed decisions.