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Hayden Van Brewer
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⚽️ Analytics 📊 Altijd Ajacied ✖️✖️✖️
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Another two points dropped. Arsenal are 8 points better off vs equivalent fixtures last season. If results match last season's for the rest of 25/26, final totals:

84 Man City (+13)
82 Arsenal (+8)
68 Villa (+2)
65 Liverpool (-19)
59 Chelsea (-10)
59 Man Utd (+17)
47 Newcastle (-19)
35 Spurs (-3)
February 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Wolves 2 (0.3)-(1.5) 2 Arsenal

The stats will say it was fine but 2 up on the last place team and no win?

🚨 Yikes
February 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
If Galatasaray go on to the next round, they will face Liverpool or Tottenham, both teams that spent big on strikers who are not Osimhen
I understand that the Premier League teams who bought strikers this summer were put off by the demands of Victor Osimhen’s agent. I don’t doubt that they were utterly ridiculous. But if they’d acquiesced to them, they would have Victor Osimhen.
February 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I get asked this by MLS staffers regularly. If the clicks and views weren’t rocking with Ravi (who I consider to be one of THE best in the whole league) then it’s not gonna happen yet folks
perhaps I should start an MLS-only Transfer Flow offshoot that will generate upwards of 500 subscribers
but there are dozens of sickos out there who will eat it up
February 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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@akeaswaran.me made this neat graph of a quick strength of schedule model. Really interesting to see how relative difficulty between the front and back parts of the season may drive narratives. Neville might find his seat pretty hot, while Varas is my pick for COTY winner w/ a likely hot start.
February 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM
This is a great read👏👏
February 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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The first in the series talking about the updates to the overall stats changes I am making. Here we introduce “Garbage Time” and have the ability to try and add more context to stats.

www.cannonstats.com/p/introducin...
Introducing "Garbage Time"
I analyzed 25,000 matches to answer a simple question: when is a football match truly over?
www.cannonstats.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I LOVE Scottie Sundays
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Love this plot of @futi.live team styles, stoked to see this stuff in smart club coverage like Sounder at Heart
February 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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anyway, sometime in the next couple weeks i'm gonna get hella drunk and write what I *really* think about pro/rel
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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do it Spurs lmao
🚨🌳 BREAKING: Sean Dyche has been sacked by Nottingham Forest with immediate effect. #NFFC fire the coach after 4 months in charge.
February 12, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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American soccer wouldn't be the same without Doyle, who works incredibly hard to tell smart stories and build fan culture in a league that's starved for both

Blows my mind that MLS didn't beg him to keep doing that, but go subscribe to his work to keep the league fun in spite of itself
Fifteen years ago, I got my dream job writing for MLSsoccer. Last week, that came to an end.

I'm off on my own, and it's time to build something new – with a little help from all of you.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/an-end-to-my...
February 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Also insane that the biggest and best voice on MLS is someone who preferred working for the league itself, and the league itself said nah, that's not worth our money. Bananas.
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Fifteen years ago, I got my dream job writing for MLSsoccer. Last week, that came to an end.

I'm off on my own, and it's time to build something new – with a little help from all of you.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/an-end-to-my...
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
An all-timer newsletter from an inspired Kim
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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We are hiring at Variance Inc. for a Data Engineer.

We’re building products around sports and gambling data, and we’re looking for a data engineer to own the data layer. You need to have worked with sports data!

If that sounds like you, or a friend, submit your app forms.gle/kty6UnTYb6Nb...
February 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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That's Manchester City's first win at a full capacity Anfield since 2004, and the first time they've done the league double over Liverpool since 1936/37. #LIVMCI

#EPL-Live
February 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Obed's gonna take Johnny's minutes b/c Obed's a much better soccer player.
Obed Vargas replaces Ademola Lookman in 70th minute.
February 8, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Cherki is guaranteed entertainment, what a guy
February 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Scottie Scheffler also getting himself in the mix. Great sport Sunday
February 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Liverpool and and Everton only separated by 2 points as things stand.

Also European teams in the bottom half: Newcastle, Palace, Spurs, Forest.

Been some season
February 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Continues to pay dividends, that was a rocket🚀
I love the character development of Szoboszlai reigning in the silly shots from distance and just fully focusing on smashing free kicks
February 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Guessand instant impact @patrickbvs.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM