Watching football on Sundays just got a bit more interesting with the 2015 upgrades to Microsoft’s NFL Experience app.
The new upgrades will be available at the end of August, just in time for the NFL season. Here are some of the new features the NFL Experience will feature:
By connecting football fans through intuitive TV experiences like Skype and Fantasy Football, Microsoft delivers a whole new way to experience NFL game day. This season, Microsoft will integrate Fantasy Football programs from NFL.com, CBS, Yahoo! Sports and ESPN Fantasy Football into Xbox One and Windows 10.
Additionally, Microsoft has also added a variety of new features to the Xbox One NFL app, delivering a truly unique experience for fans, including:
– Next Gen Stats: Go beyond your standard categories of catches, yards and touchdowns and allow fans to track player’s velocity, speed (MPH) and total distance run. With Next Gen Stats, fans will know more than NFL experts with previously unseen data. Fans can discover how fast their favorite RB ran, how far their fantasy QB scrambled or change viewing angles to see just where the coverage broke down.
– Game Day Notifications: Fans will have improved game day notifications, as they can now set two favorite teams to go along with being able to upload two different fantasy teams. With smart notifications, fans can personalize their game day experience on
– Xbox One and Windows 10 to see only the big play alerts, scores, fantasy updates and highlights they care about when they happen.
– New Replay Function: There’s a new replay function that will allow fans to watch replays from multiple angles and share to their Xbox Live contacts. When you snap the NFL App while watching live NFL games, there’s a new highlight reel section, where you can “like” big plays and keep track of the most popular highlights for the day.
– NGS Pick’em: For the first time ever, Microsoft is introducing a new skills game competition called NGS Pick’em, offering an opportunity for fans to make predictions on Next Gen Stats recorded from highlights and replays to win prizes including tickets to Super Bowl 50. The full NFL App, complete with the NGS Pick’em will also be available on all Windows 10 devices, providing users the ultimate second screen experience.
The app seems to bring fans another step closer to the sidelines and if it works seamlessly with XBox One’s 2 screen system it’ll rival other options such as NFL Red Zone and NFL Sunday Ticket.