Daryl

Don't want to be rude so I'll leave this pinned. I'm curating my Following feed to contain less politics contents and things I want to see/read, so I apologise if I unfollow you or don't follow back. I'm trying to use less social media and curate it for my tiny brain to consume it. (1/3)

Starting a mega thread where I link interesting, analytics-related jobs from across NWSL, MLS, and abroad. Will do my best to highlight important parts of the posting, plus list salary if it's included. ⬇️

How does a football club create pathways? How do they develop and manage young talent? How do they look after the human side? I went to find out. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

I'm out of words after I put them all into that Cavan piece, so here's a more chill newsletter with updates, links, and a couple new internship postings:

Well that's definitely unexpected!

Thanks so much for the amazing response to Cata's debut! For those who aren't aware - we've not done a great job introducing ourselves on Bluesky - SCOUTED is an indie and reader-funded magazine on the players, people and ideas changing football's future.

The story of Cavan Sullivan is a story about American soccer idols, and by extension, a story about American soccer itself, both the good and the bad. 20 years after Freddy Adu, American soccer has its prodigy. For @scoutedftbl.com, the tales we weave about Cavan and all that came before (🎁 link):

*NEW* In my first article for ESPN, I explore how the changing tactical landscape of elite football has led to certain trends in each position across the pitch, from marauding centre-backs to big, physical strikers. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

when I started out programming I just couldn't wait to one day get to stop problem solving and stop designing architecture, to blossom into a full time robot herder and PR reviewer

"At Gulf Air, we think differently, like current World Drivers' Champion Lando Norris!"

NANDO DID IT 🥳

Unai Emery’s grandad played in goal for Real Union de Irun. His dad played in goal for Real Union. His son plays in goal for Real Union. He bought Real Union to save a historic club, four-times cup winners. A family responsibility, he calls it. Here’s the story: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Today FIFA have released the FIFA World Cup 2026™ Post-Tournament Technical Report. I'm very proud to have had a part in creating what is, without a doubt, some of the most comprehensive technical and tactical analysis we have produced to date. Have a browse, enjoy and let us know your feedback👇🏻

The state of Asian football stats smh... I really need to get that MAT dashboard done asap, don't I 😔

Villarreal are 9th in La Liga and just got outplayed by Real Betis, but their press is elite and they've flipped into a 61.7% possession side under Iñigo Pérez. Underlying numbers still point to a top-4 side, for now.

In the spring of 2019, a young man named Khvicha Kvaratskhelia lived alone at Lokomotiv Moscow’s training ground. All these years later, Khvicha's hustle has paved a new path for a faded icon: the Eastern European creator. The long read: bit.ly/dribbling-in...

Journeyman 6: Southend United are over their trauma. Now it’s the next age: moving back up the leagues and remaining transparent. Kieron Dyer and Oliver Gage are leading that movement. It’s a fascinating club ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

No striker, no problem. Barcelona are 8 for 8 with a +24 goal difference and 4.5 goals a game, and they did it without replacing Lewandowski or Ferran Torres. • Rodri's arrival freeing up Pedri • Yamal's improved movement • Raphinha's 14 goals leading the line Plus: How long can this last?

Genuinely believe @futi.live's new advanced stats with tactical context are the deepest that fans have ever had access to Non-shot dangerous attacks, xG in set piece second phases, fast break dribbles, tactical fouls in transition — there's so much stuff here that we can measure for the first time

Daniel Job is a really interesting guy and his transfer to FC Dallas raises a lot of questions about process, player evaluation, and league translation. In the closer look, I try to flesh out what a talent eval workflow could look like, and why it's harder than just "this player good."

I'm worry this will be the consequence of the APL tightening the salary cap of the A-League this season, and the seasons beyond...

🆕 Shogun Soccer 🇯🇵⚽️: #JLeague Matchday 7: Mini Review FOUR J1 games in Focus! - Kobe 🐮 defeat Antlers 🦌 - Reysol 🌞 come back victory over Kyoto Sanga - Machida & Marinos draw to a stand-still 🛡️ - FC Tokyo cruise to a win over Gamba Osaka 🌊 Link🔗: www.shogunsoccer.com/p/20262027-j...

Yamal is...*checks Fotmob*...still 19 btw. I know he's a generational talent, but ffs, he's still a teenager. We all know what happens when you ask a teenager to be a leader of a group of people.

A model-heavy newsletter today, with lots of thoughts on the decisions we make when building something. This week's Post-Match Report:

TL;DR: The answer to that tweet is no, football analytics isn't solved. In fact, there's a lot more work to be done now that tracking data is entering the public sphere and different challenges faced by the industry. To borrow 2 quotes from last year's MIT Sloan Conference:

I wrote a bit about why football analytics is not actually 'solved', the problem with generating data using current AI (or more accurately, computer vision) models, and watching sports with AI is actually not as fun as many tech start-ups want you to think. www.talking-tactics.com/p/solving-fo...

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝟐.𝟎 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Following the success of the first edition, PySport and @skillcorner.bsky.social are inviting the analytics community to work with open-source 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 (including body pose data) and 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 to turn new ideas into open-source projects with real value.

Just gonna add another one to the Dortmund-related memes folder, courtesy of Tifo Football

This summer, MLS teams spent a record-breaking amount of money on player transfers: $188 million. That's a 65% increase year-over-year and takes the yearly total to over $410 million, twice what it was in 2022. I dug into the data for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Our most recent free data release: five complete women's leagues covering 2023-2024 🇺🇸 NWSL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WSL 🇮🇹 Serie A 🇪🇸 Liga F 🇩🇪 Frauen-Bundesliga 771 matches. 2.6million rows of event data. The largest women's football dataset publicly available 🔽 www.hudl.com/blog/statsbo...

I recently turned off code completion in my VSCode and realised my brain was so cooked that I can't even remember how to write a simple Python class. Unlearning in the AI era is real yall

Yeah this definitely did not happen to a Xabi Alonso team before...

He is sooooo good even though a few things were swayed his way 🤙