Simon

Major updates to analytic.football, now powered by shot-level data, after switching to Opta. Major things: - Takes into account game state - Downweights noisy very high xG chances - Accounts for uncertainty in the opponent's rating in update speed - Team quality is an additional input to finishing

His analysis is more bang on than he realises, it was his boss the tinpot dictator throwing a tantrum that caused it

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

new Expecting Goals blog! The new pace of play rules: they're working incredibly well to speed up play, but one of them may be working a little too well (and why no one's noticed yet) www.expectinggoals.com/p/new-rules-...

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Apart from once again proving himself a dead eyed socipath, Jenrick is forcing Reform down a cul-de-sac. "How about war crimes" is not winning 35% of the vote.

i really am not convinced the Telegraph isn’t a massive satirical art piece

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

Piracy is a moral obligation

This is very good from Rob Rinder. The comments are a complete binfire, not sure why there are so many horseshoe Greens on a Nazi's site, but there we are.

Holy shit.

It is important that the German Greens directly reject the UK Green Party’s resolution titled "Zionism is Racism" and welcome the suspension of its voting rights within the European Green Party. It‘s urgently necessary for the @europeangreens.eu to distance itself from the UK Green Party’s position.

If that's all they wanted to say, they would simply say it. But they don't. They want to say something else. And that's why it's worded in the way it is.

It is also perfectly possible to make the case that Zionism inevitably leads to the kind of behaviour from the Israeli government which we see today. Those positions are valid and respectable.

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

You can now play your own Man City game on the interweb leedsthat.com/shampain?fbc...

Time to play my favorite game, Soccer or Politics?

Badenoch still doesn’t grasp the impact of a war she would have joined: 🥶

When I said they were Iranians arriving in small boats, I meant British nationals living in London.

Just want it on record that regardless of what he achieved in a Leeds shirt or his ability as a footballer, Manor Solomon is a dreadful prick & he can fuck off. #lufc

Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

They were going to join the super league 😭

i feel really strongly that the jj gabriel stuff should not be in the media at all. he is a child.

I’ve seen this before.

Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

analytic.football is now using Opta data as the xG input, as the last bastion of only-cheaply-paywalled Statsbomb xG seems to be gone It meant a full retune, and the finishing module got a couple of upgrades (handling conditionality of rebounds better). New ratings on the left.

you know what, challenge accepted. quotes that express ideas that are challenged or recontextualized by LLMs 🧵 "When I think in words, I don’t have ‘meanings’ in my mind in addition to the verbal expressions; rather, language itself is the vehicle of thought" -- Wittgenstein

Mahmood's proposals would force medium-skilled & care workers to leave the UK & would deter high skill workers from coming in future. This would widen the deficit/fiscal home. Would be deliberate economic and political self-harm for Burnham/Healey to proceed with them. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Hull only 8 points from matching Derby's record but they only get to play Manchester United one more time so it's touch and go