Posted September 8, 2008 - 2:05 pm
The NFL is known for its meticulous, hands-on approach to everything -- and for years that included doing its scheduling by hand, starting the day after the Super Bowl, with a peg board and little tags. But that all changed several years ago, when the NFL realized it could use technology to automate the process -- making it more efficient and its schedules better -- and a Canadian manufacturing engineer named Rick Stone came knocking on the NFL's door.