Drew Olsen

Just a bad 10 minutes tbh

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Good advice, thank you.

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I moved from Oregon to Richmond to become a Kickers fan. Wtf bro.

one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response

Everyone loves Sentnor's bangers but we gotta be honest here: the KC coaching staff's overriding job to make her a better player is to tell her to get inside the box before shooting

Your analysts is trash

This is so so so good.

Let’s welcome Eugene to League One and for folks who aren’t familiar with the distances between things in the US, Glascow is closer to London than Spokane is to Eugene, Oregon #LocalDerby #PNW

For sure. Though any sign of life would have been a pleasant surprise.

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Wild how much the existence of Opta has changed PK shootouts. GKs dove to the correct side on every single one.

Kickers in the 11 games (5 away, 4 home) since their last home win on April 9, per @americansocceranalysis.com:
GF: 14 (10th)
xGF: 11.19 (13th)
GA: 22 (13th)
xGA: 19.04 (10th)
GD: -8 (13th)
xGD -7.85 (12th)
Pts: 7 (last)
xPts: 10.04 (last)
*excludes own goals

In sum: they're baaaaaaaad. #UpTheRoos

Quick Skim Of "Inverting The Pyramid" Has New Expert Ready To Talk Tactics — The Nutmeg News Knoxville, TN - A quick skim of Inverting The Pyramid has John Jamison, a new formations and historical soccer expert, ready to talk tactics with all the soccer fans in his local area as he prowled th...

Quick Skim Of "Inverting The Pyramid" Has New Expert Ready To Talk Tactics

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@eliotmckinley.com pointed out that the location of the sun means the shadows on the mountain don't make sense, and now it can't be unseen.

hi

Reddit, please never change.

Before you get heated your team isn’t in Tier 0, remember: you have to be a Nerd Boss, not just a nerd, boss!

For the first time, we have two entries to Tier 0. The State of Analytics in MLS is here: www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/7/20/state-of-mls-analytics-july-2025

Stadium extortion rule #1: Insinuate the team may move if taxpayers don't foot the bill for a new stadium.

The rate of 3.7 goals per game in this tournament is the highest on record for a European Championship group stage. This has been boosted by some wild final group matches where teams had nothing to play for, so they went on the attack (such as Iceland and Belgium). Equally, there have also been matches where teams desperately needed goals, so they left the back door open (see Portugal and Netherlands). And goals, in general, are good. But having celebrated goals already, let’s consider the opposite: have teams forgotten how to defend? The general pattern from this tournament is that full-backs are all about flying forward rather than being able to stop opposition wingers. In the middle, it’s been difficult to identify many truly outstanding centre-backs, with the possible exception of Nathalie Bjorn of Sweden, the side with the best defensive record. They conceded one goal, every other team conceded at least three. Perhaps there will be more commanding defensive displays in the knockout stage, when outstanding defenders face outstanding strikers. So far, the defending has largely been poor — epitomised by Germany.

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This analysis by @zonal-marking.bsky.social on poor defending at the Euros requires some shading.

In 2022, 3.1 non-penalty xG was generated per game in the group stage.

This year, that figure was 3.0 (1/)

Last Kickers' win at home was April 9th!

it is a duty of all humanity to make it our eternal business to let these two know how much they’re loathed

Kickers bad

Now that the 2nd round of Euro games is done, there's finally enough to data to analyze. I built a shiny app that lets you view Atomic VAEP for Euro games + players. (All modeling/data processing credit goes to @chloesainsbury.bsky.social)

Lmk what you think: catabush.shinyapps.io/vaep_tables/

Ditto!

Using Goals Added Subcategories for Player Evaluation — American Soccer Analysis By Paul Harvey , Mike Imburgio , Ben Bellman Since it was introduced, Goals Added has been superior to most of the publicly available algorithmic rating systems, such as those provided by WhoScor...

We dropped g+ sub categories last week, and here is how we use them from @paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc @mimburgio.bsky.social and @beninquiring.bsky.social

www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2025/7/... Using Goals Added Subcategories for Player Evaluation — American Soccer Analysis

How Oakland Roots made USL Championship history, and kept their momentum rolling Unique numbers, defensive resilience powered 2-0 victory against Detroit City, third consecutive win

I did.
www.uslchampionship.com/news_article...

Put it in the Louvre.