I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
Michael Caley
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also, too: there is solid evidence that this plays a meaningful role in home field advantage, as refs give more stoppage time when the home team is losing than when they are winning
it's a great sport
that's right bsky.app/profile/tiot...
this is going to be the Official World Cup of Getting Way Out Over Your Skis for like a dozen fanbases at least, with these super soft groups and so many weeks before the knockouts even start and there's even extra soft knockouts too
so I was thinking about how the US knew Paraguay was going to sit off in a sufferball low/mid block, and they trusted their counterpress to get back, so they sent waves of runners straight at the back line with passers under minimal pressure picking longballs
and I realized
Poch went FOUR VERTS
the bad thing about spending two weeks absolutely killing myself to get a world cup projection model built is that I definitely don't have three weeks of late nights in me
but the good thing is that I'm already at a full sprint I can just keep going like this until I collapse
Michael Caley
Four games in the waking period people we trained for this
