Seems to me that a big competitive advantage could be gained in a few years by the companies that hire, develop and invest in young talent now - while the other companies look round their offices at bored old twats all running out of ideas and watching their businesses die around them

The switch to a July-May season for the #MLS seems sensible for many reasons, and I think this is an important one: MLS matches are played in significantly higher temperatures compared to the top 🇪🇺 leagues. Also, judging by those recent CPL highlights, snow football looks awesome, bring it on

My latest blog post "From Data to Wisdom: Playing Football’s Information Game at the Right Level" explores how football clubs can move from simply collecting data to making better, evidence-based decisions. janvanhaaren.be/posts/from-d...

Here's a new batch of numbers, let's use them to build narratives! (cit.) ☄️

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

As someone who's had to write code around MLS competition format, I can attest that best-of-3 is the worst thing in the history of football and MLS should be banned by FIFA as a fair punishment.

Absolutely insane goal in insane conditions in the CPL final. Absurd.

yikes 💀

Spurs vs United was so rancid that both clubs should refund their supporters and the millions who watched their poor attempt at playing the beautiful game

This is really good writing about using data to communicate, and hits some of the things I don’t like about the ways soccer statistics are created and used

This has been super gross to witness. Arsenal fans putting Ohio State fans to shame in the “Taking a compliment as an insult and being super toxic about it” department.

For Awful Announcing, I wrote about how the relentlessness of Saudi Arabia's sports ventures is wearing down critics, with thoughts from a few of them: awfulannouncing.com/orig/saudi-a...

Karolina 🪄 #tennis

Welcome new people, here are some soccer analytics and tactics accounts to follow if you're into that

The Boss 😎🇮🇹

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

this is really good stuff from @gelliottmorris.com the core issue is that polling in the subjunctive is dumb. if you ask people to imagine things, people will imagine things when you ask questions about actual, material acts of political violence, rates of support run incredibly low

let's goooo

Karolina Muchova, you are not like the other players (complimentary)

One of the items in the latest at Bounces was looking at the contrast between how the comedy green room reacted to lucrative Saudi invitations compared to the flaccid response from tennis locker rooms to the same phenomenon. Feat. @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social: www.benrothenberg.com/p/china-open...

Tennis pics that go hard

Gridlines >>> axes Almost always, gridlines are better than axes. At least for vertical axes. I admit, vertical axes are the default option, and they have been around for centuries, so they are very well known. But your typical vertical axis also has some downsides. 1/15

Playing goal kicks short has usually yielded better returns, but the gap in NP xG difference between short and long GKs might be shrinking in most top 🇪🇺 leagues...except for the PL, where the gap seems to be widening despite an uptick in the % of long GKs, which would buck a very persistent trend

I feel like this is a very strong counter to a lot of arguments about fundamental economic or structural obstacles to decarbonization, or that it requires a comprehensive reorganization of our system of production. It's a political choice, that's all.

I had big men coming up to me, coaches and managers, big macho men with tears in their eyes saying thank you sir thank you for what you did to man city

2001 PC Game scene: “I will play it, I just won’t buy it.” 2025 PC Game scene: “I will buy it, I just won’t play it.”

Before an app launches, it undergoes usability testing. Why shouldn't an advanced sports metric? In our latest blog, we propose 4 criteria: 1️⃣ Trustworthy 2️⃣ Novel 3️⃣ Intuitive 4️⃣ Useful Then, we put VAEP to the test... \w @jessejdavis.bsky.social & Maaike Van Roy dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/sports/blog/...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Call the police! Highway robbery from Iga, but well played from both

For @the2ndserve.bsky.social, I wrote about Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka's high-quality, high-stakes, and all-too-infrequent rivalry: www.thesecondserve.com/sabalenka-an...

Every person who yearns for how soccer used to be needs to be strapped to a chair and forced to watch early 2000's big 4 PL matches until they relent their trash opinion.

As someone who is tasked with analyzing football and giving my opinions, it doesn't feel good to say "man I don't know." I have no idea if Ange is going to work out at Forest. But I *do* know they weren't actually good last year! www.thetransferflow.com/p/nottingham...

Fucker’s Fab posting now.

Don't back down, double down

With another Sincaraz final in the books, I was curious to see the @tennisabstract.bsky.social court speed rating, and apparently, the USO has slowed down to just below tour average in 2025. Of course, in this case, Alcaraz's win was so comprehensive that conditions were not a factor (1/2)

Very cool seeing your own work cited on The Athletic, and very interesting analysis with crisp dataviz from Mark as always 👏

lmao Aryna 😂👑

People who just want to watch tennis have been shafted in every way imaginable this tournament.

seated for the last women’s slam match of 2025 please put on an entertaining show ladies 🫡

911 i would like to report an addition crime of grand larceny

Beyond impressed with and thrilled for Anisimova but if we don't get an Iga-Aryna major final soon we need to revolt against the tennis gods

Don’t have a problem with Tel being the one left out from the available squad. Do have a problem with a process that saw us purchase Tel for 30m this summer, then sign a more developed version of Tel in RKM on loan for a season and prioritise that over Tel’s development.

idk man, unc is like 80 years old and never plays tennis and then just shows up 4x a year and schools all but two dudes, all while being cringe and limping around. honestly, i can't even be mad at it. he's just built different.

Italian derby scheduled at 2:30 AM CET 🤦‍♂️ well done US Open, good process! I guess Osaka back in a slam QF for the first time in over 4 years or a Wimbledon final rematch involving a US player didn't have enough star power for prime time

3 - Jannik Sinner is the first player to concede three or fewer games en route to Men's Singles match victory in the second week at the US Open since Novak Djokovic, who dropped three to defending champion Marin Cilic in 2015. Unplayable. #USOpen

Stop it you absolute psycho

thing is if newcastle had sold isak to liverpool at the start of the window, i feel like there's a good chance they would've landed ekitike