No teams can clinch an #NWSL playoff spot next weekend, but Washington Spirit can clinch a home playoff game. Meanwhile Utah and Bay face potential elimination from playoff contention

Congrats to Washington Spirit for clinching a playoff spot this weekend! Everything else in the table is up in the air at this point

After Friday night the playoff scenarios are simplified. Chicago is eliminated from contention and Washington Spirit must win to clinch a playoff spot this weekend

Washington Spirit has another chance to clinch a playoff spot this weekend. Meanwhile Chicago Stars must take at least a point from Kansas City to stay in the playoff race

The NWSL playoff race is BACK! @lesleyryder.bsky.social on the countdown to Decision Day! Featuring: some handy graphs, and a playoff explorer tool from data viz wizard, @agale.bsky.social!

Check out this site to see what results your team needs to make the #NWSL playoffs: playoffs.alisongale.com

The most unpredictable league in the game. 🥶🏆 Five seasons, five different Shield winners. Read more: bit.ly/3IvIdQC

Washington Spirit has another chance to clinch a playoff spot this weekend. Meanwhile Chicago Stars must take at least a point from Kansas City to stay in the playoff race

After last weekend, Utah can still finish as high as 3rd (which results in a very chaotic table). Chicago can now only finish as high as 7th

North Carolina moved into a playoff position for the first time since week 1. The top of the table remained stable but teams are making moves at the bottom of the table 👀

Congrats to Kansas City for clinching the shield with 5 games to go! Washington Spirit will have another chance to clinch next week but everything else is up in the air

The Spirit will have to wait another week to clinch a playoff spot. But now Kansas City can secure the shield with a win on Saturday

As we head into week 21, the playoff race is as chaotic as ever. I updated my site that lets you play around with scores to see how the final table shakes out playoffs.alisongale.com

Last year Orlando won the shield in week 22. Can Kansas City secure it in week 21? Washington Spirit also has a chance to clinch a playoff spot. Everything else is up in the air

Updated week 20 #NWSL bump chart has Seattle Reign join 3 other teams with 30 points. In week 21, Kansas City can win the shield and Washington Spirit can clinch a playoff spot. Everything else is up in the air

Week 20 #NWSL standings have Gotham and North Carolina as the big winners. Seattle and Louisville have a game in hand now. Sending well wishes to DeMelo 💜

Playoff picture getting clearer by the day 👀📈 Take a look at how each team has locked in after returning from the International Break.

Kansas City clinched a home playoff game in week 19. Other winners moving up in the table include Portland, Gotham, and Houston #NWSL

A week after clinching an #NWSL playoff spot, Kansas City has a chance to clinch a home playoff match. Confirmed all of these scenarios and no other teams can clinch playoffs or be eliminated this week

Not much movement in #NWSL week 18 as Kansas City clinched a playoff spot. The middle of the table remains very tight

Congrats to Kansas City Current who are the first team to clinch an #NWSL playoff spot this season!

With the caveat that I haven't manually verified even half of these scenarios* (really hard to do this early in the season), here is what my algorithm found as the ways Kansas City can clinch a playoff spot this weekend. * I did verify the "KC win and in" scenario so I'm confident in that one

It's officially the return of playoff clinching scenarios and next week Kansas City has a chance to earn a playoff spot 👀 More to come later this week*, but the first scenario is simple: a WIN and KC is IN the playoffs. *after I prove to myself the rest of the scenarios are correct

In #NWSL week 17, the Spirit jump to a season-high 2nd place and Angel City is now a win out of playoff contention. Kansas City continues to pull away from the rest of the teams

With 5 draws in #NWSL week 16, the only teams moving up were the two winners: San Diego and Houston. There is a clear top team and two bottom teams but the rest of the table remains tight

Of course the only movement following #NWSL Rivalry comes due to the Cascadia Clash which saw Portland win a high-scoring clash

The back half of the #NWSL season kicked off with a lot of draws. KC pulled further ahead of the pack while the Reign and Spirit moved up a spot with a win

In #NWSL week 13, there was only one team to move up in the table: North Carolina. As we head into the summer break, the 2nd through 7th placed teams are separated by only 5 points.

The middle of the #NWSL table remains tight with 4 teams on 15 points. Chicago finally moves off the bottom of the table with a draw against Seattle.

Still lots of movement in the middle of the table in #NWSL week 11, while the top team and the bottom 3 remain unchanged

Tons of goals in week 10 but not much movement in the #NWSL table. The Spirit moved up one spot and Louisville jumped into the final playoff position

In #NWSL week 9 San Diego Wave moved up to second place but only 7 points separate 2nd and 12th place. Lots of room for further shuffling

Big win for the transitive property #NWSL

In week 8 of the #NWSL the top and bottom two remain steady but all the other teams continue shuffling. With a tight middle of the table, a team can move up 3 spots with a win

San Diego Wave pulled off a last second win to jump into second place. Meanwhile, North Carolina went from last to 9th in two weeks #NWSL

Data visualisation is my passion 🎇This is the 24-25 A-League Women round-by-round ladder. Alison Gale on Twitter posted something similar to this at the end of the last NWSL season and I thought it was a real interesting way of looking at a season.

Week 6 for the #NWSL has wrapped up! No change in the top 4 but both Portland and North Carolina saw big movement from wins. Note that for the next few weeks, the number of matches played will be uneven

First bump chart of the 2025 #NWSL season! Lots of movement in the early days, though the top 3 teams have started to pull ahead of the pack.

Exciting first weekend of #NWSL action! This is my last season preview visualization showing which teams have players who played the most last season.

With the offseason officially concluded, we can see how the new CBA has affected the volume of college signings in both the #NWSL and outside the NWSL. Though the margins of NWSL signings was fairly tight, the amount of money flowing into rookies' pockets obliterates past years.

With 2025 #NWSL rosters finalized yesterday I took a look at how players moved in the offseason

Recreated a plot to look at which teams had more or less experienced players last season. Will be interesting to see how many of these change this season as teams remake their rosters #NWSL

A look back at 2024 #NWSL draft picks and the conferences they came from. Will be interesting to see how this changes for next season without the draft

Excited for the 2025 #NWSL season, featuring the return of decision day!

Took a look at minutes breakdown by university for the last season with an #NWSL draft. "High School" is seeing the biggest growth

For easier comparison I shifted the charts so the range of the charts go from 41 years before the season to 16 years before. The charts are getting flatter and more spread out over time as players are getting signed younger and the longevity of professional soccer players is increasing

The #NWSL is getting younger with more players joining directly out of high school or after only a few years in college

This plot of the #NWSL golden boot race really highlights how consistent Temwa Chawinga was for the Kansas City Current. The race was close before the Olympics break but Chawinga pulled away after.

My main euros thought is why bother assigning each team a position in the group during the draw if the published schedule doesn't use that position for anything other than group A?

Final chart for the year looks at the 5-game moving average of points earned by each #NWSL team to highlight trends in performance