About 25 people gathered in the Boston Globe’s Media Lab on Saturday, Dec. 19 for an 8-hour hackathon. At this meeting, hacks and hackers took on a variety of projects using data from every NFL play since 2002, released to the public by AdvancedNLFStats.

While there were several groups of people, others worked on projects on their own.

Katy Carroll works on her project with event organizer, Matt Carroll. Their final product was an interactive game where Tom Brady threw the ball over the Raven’s defense to be caught by Wes Welker.

Another shot of the group.

Jude Dai, left, and Christopher Vance took a look at the impact of weather on a team and their performance. Specifically they looked at teams that are used to playing in a controlled environment like a dome and how they perform when playing at a field like Gillette Stadium, where they are exposed to the elements. Based on their calculations, a team used to those controlled conditions is 16 percent more likely to lose at an exposed stadium than a team that is more used to the elements.

Hive producer Michael Morisy and programmer Ezra Erb sit together at the event.

James Chisholm, the NFL expert of the two, works with statistician J. Carroll to create an infographic that took a look at SpyGate. Specifically they compared how many calls the Patriots had in 2006 and 2007 and compared it to other teams.

Dan Colonese, a software consultant, and Todd Cioffi, a technical training director, sit together as they worked. Colonese examined several layers of the data and made graphs and charts representing the number of completed passes, incompleted passes, touchbacks, and other aspects of each NFL team.

Matt Carroll demos his working game for the group.

Dai and Vance talk about their findings and reflect on how the project would have been done differently had they not been confined to 8 hours.

Chisholm and Carroll present their final product.

Each of the participants got plenty of swag, including the Fenway Park 100th Anniversary Collector’s Set and a 100 years DVD.

Morisy and Boston.com sports editor, Matt Pepin, announced Todd Cioffi as the winner, with his analysis of Adrian Peterson and Peyton Manning and who will end up on top as either the Comeback Player of the Year, MVP, or both.

It wouldn’t be a Hive event without the honey.