Dan Pritchard - Another fananalyst data nerd

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Villa probably have to replace both Watkins & Martinez this summer. Could go very wrong as they are pillars of our side.
I do think Atubolu is a good shout to take up some of that strain though.

The decision makers of football are scrabbling for ideas to get youth interest; while sitting on the perfect watch & scroll screen experience, merch opportunities & a great live product.
You don't need a new offside rule, just make the game actually accessible for less than my rent!

Prices & sticking hospitality into the Holte.
Pyro & tifos are nice flourishs if you're getting the basics right but we're not. Expanding hospitality should be the focus of renovations o the North, Witton & Trinity, not in the atmosphere generator. U23 concessions would also add life to the place.

“Not many would’ve seen this coming” says the commentator, a man who’s clearly never seen Dortmund play a single game of football.

It seems like a lot of people still don't know that he admitted to his lawyer that he committed sexual assault. We know this because his lawyer was hacked, so it wouldn't be admissible as evidence in court, but we still do know that he told his lawyer he did it.

Same, sitting in my parents loft until I decide I have the disposable income to transport an undoubtedly several kilo box to central Europe.

Tammy for Buendia & less Rogers come from the left in a 4222.

I think this is that case for most games giving % chance. Fallout's VATs system maxed out at 95% chance which was closer to 99.5%.
I'm not sure but I think XCOM might have been an exception because people complained a lot about missing 70% shots. Disco Elysium too but failure is built in there.

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:

Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.

samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

I'm still baffled because while I wouldn't describe the decision making during his time at Villa as excellent, it wasn't nearly this bad.
If anything the decision making got a lot worse when his input was sidelined when Gerrard came in.

Maybe having better financials has let him go sicko mode?

I think they are too, though the blind spots will be the same for all the players. Emi's issues this season were put well by @jacobtanswell.bsky.social.
Seemingly either at 10/10 or 2/10 rather than a consistent 8/10.
Still think trying to claim most set pieces is a plus in this meta.

On crosses he has 1.91 high claims per 90, top percentile but I'd guess he's also attempting the most catches. Hard to tell how effective he's been though in the current set piece & meat wall environment I think volume is a bit more important than success %.

Unfortunately can't say on the dropped crosses since Opta pulled their stuff from FBref but the other 2 are errors leading to goal in which he has 3. Most of any keeper.
Puts him approx at 1.85 goals prevented about 77th percentile with Henderson in 6th out of PL keepers.

the way british politics basically works is that when the prime minister is really unpopular, other people in the party will wait for a scandal to hit then use it as pretext for why the prime minister will be forced out. that's just what happens at this point.

I think largely because to them:
1. Islam = evil
2. Anyone from North Africa & South West Asia is Muslim
3. Those groups are more present in UK non-white ethnicities than Hispanics unlike..
4. America, which is the centre of the universe; our represented non-white ethnic cultures are the norm.

Thing about abstinence is, if it's not happening everywhere than somewhere else that industry is eroding its moral norms to show revenue growth.
When that ended they just had to look over the pond to get the whole playbook & copy it wholesale. Had friends putting acuminators on at school.

*checks out.

I remember reading & have never looked into it further that it's basically a product of the UK having loads of sheep.
The US has all that space to have larger cattle, which cheats out when the average chain restaurant in the US shits on the steak I've eaten at home, bar specialist places.

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But to be so it need to be acceptable as international currency. Which would happen with mass acceptance but it probably won't get mass acceptance unless it's backed by major institutions using it as international currency, which they won't unless it's mass adopted &...

I mean I see why the idea of a decentralised currency is attractive but because it isn't used as such by any major acceptor yet it's just a speculation product.
Like a genuinely international currency not tied to the particular politics of your country has a lot of use in theory.

Doesn't know bald maybe

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Maybe investors are starting to ask where the income is going to come from?
Bit earlier than I thought though, I thought that might happen at end of quarter.

Got 6/6, clearly just know ball(d).

Isn't that the one Bezos brought? I think he cares more about corrupting information pathways than sport, but it's still dumb because getting people to read the later might make them click on the former.

Yeah, putting the entire infrastructure of trade & international cooperation entirely on how the people of these 3 counties feel about inflation on the 18th November every 4 years was, in hindsight, not optimal.

This, to expand, also goes for my own homeland of the UK who have been quietly cracking down on public freedoms & selling public data for some time.
Solidarity with those who reside in either country but those systems of governance need to be removed branch & root for effective reform.

The reason they are considering this is for the visa waiver & I got to ask. How popular is the US as a destination at the moment?
We really should be highly skeptical of a country who's political structure is this comprised, because this doesn't just go away if some swing voters tick blue in 2029.

I would be replying to this with a sickos meme & they're going to make him permanent coach if Utd had done the decent thing & hired former player Rooney.
Instead I'm worried they make seemingly good & non-insane former player Carrick permanent coach.

& thought the same of Guessand but seems his first touch isn't all that. Still wouldn't be all too surprising if he had a second season resurgence & becomes productive given Enemy's history.