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Tomorrow is the big day. Before the World Cup starts, Hip Hip Shohei wrote about the the best NWSL players to never make a World Cup roster. americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/7/19…

Checks out! This is cool

Introducing Messi to *this* team is really gonna test some of the ideas I wrote here about a single players influence on a team across sports americansocceranalysis.com/home/2022/11/1…

Moises: Pretty Good

Okay fine

This is going to make Austin fans mad but honestly they should be very happy that their sporting director actually understands what went on and is taking steps to make the team better instead of wondering why they didn’t repeat 2022.

I think the USWNT lost because the entire team failed to immediately voice universal approval for the Green New Deal.

Seconda fase: ho utilizzato i macro-cluster🧩 individuati da Mike Imburgio sulla piattaforma ALPHONSO mimburgio.shinyapps.io/alphonso/ per definire i "ruoli generali" dei giocatori del City e valutarne con maggior grado di approfondimento la completezza della rosa... Manchester City 4/14

This is just so good.

For the latest entry in our Replication Series, Tony takes a look at Laurie Shaw's seminal "Exceeding Expected Goals" to revisit the age-old question of "finishing" in soccer. americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/8/28…

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Finally finished one of the many numerous half baked ideas from Mike Imburgio and I, looking at how sure we can be that goalkeepers are actually good, and how much good shot stopping metrics mean in the future americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/8/28…

Matt Turner and Djorde Petrovic prevented goals in MLS to an extraordinary degree, but w/ high-profile transfers, the question is whether or not those numbers can continue at their new clubs. Kieran Doyle and Mike Imburgio take a Bayesian dive to find out. americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/8/28…

Fati to Brighton isnt a meme? That actually happened?

✍️ New blog post: Calibrating model predictions with the {probably} R package (link in reply) ⚽️ Case study: women's football match forecasts (RIP 538)

I took a shot at combining all of our g+ metrics into a single metric: Net Goals Added. The article includes the data for all of these metrics for every player and completed season we have in MLS and NWSL, so you can check it out and play with them yourself!

Analysing centre-forward off-ball runs ~ SkillCorner trainingground.guru/articles/skill…

If you have not read this, read it. If you have read it, it’s probably time to reread it.

Incredibly excited to share my talk from The @StatsBomb Conference: "The Next 20 Years" I explore possible paths for soccer clubs over "the next 20 years" if they were to build out their organization in a similar fashion to Major League Baseball or F1. youtube.com/watch?v=lRhkLC…

This may not be for anyone but me open.substack.com/pub/absoluteun…