Barry Cleary

Russell Martin and Gary O 'Neill paying the price for underperforming bookies expectations.

This is why I look at this metric - to see how many pts teams are getting compared to how much the bookies and joe soap expected them to gain. Expectations are everything.

#sfc #wwfc

From November 1st to now - Man City collapsing, Bournemouth flying.

#PL #mcfc #nffc

Has the impact of analytics on modern football been overstated? The debate in analytics has inevitably been framed as ‘Spreadsheet Nerds’ on the left versus ‘Old-School Football Men’ on the right

Maybe. For what it’s worth I’m sceptical that data is having any significant impact on the way football is played
www.nytimes.com/athletic/575...

The story of how a new GAA database was developed Right now, they have thousands of championship games listed from 1887 on. They can be filtered by team, opposition and venue.

Delighted to have this new project @KnowTheGame_ featured by @m-brosnan.bsky.social of @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Every championship hurling & football match, 1887 - 2024 in one place #GAA

www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...

In NFL history, six QBs have averaged 275 passing yards/game and had 30 TDs and 5 or fewer INT through the first 12 games of the season.

Joe Burrow is the only one of them to have a losing record. Four of the five won NFL MVP that season.

(via ESPN Research)

Michael Martin has to be devastated. Gaining no ground.

Today is election day in Ireland!🗳️

Curious about digital political advertising and who the Irish parties are targeting? Check out this dashboard created together with @whotargetsme.bsky.social, and my first Bluesky thread on this topic! 🧵

It’s a simple exercise but you can start to see the various parties’ weaknesses (and/or openness to variance).

▪︎ SF are your atypical “stars and scrubs” team coming out on top for the number of candidates nailed on. But the back up bench is weak.

▪︎ FF are just solid across the board. (2/3)

Bears QB Caleb Williams has now gone 232 consecutive pass attempts without an interception, both a Bears franchise record and an NFL rookie record. He's the first rookie QB to go 6 games without a pick since Charlie Batch in 1998.

Looking at performance over the last 5 games of the #PL you can see how Villa, Arsenal and City have underperformed expectations.

Liverpool continue to defy expectations. Brighton also badly priced in games.

I just want to put it out there that I am still looking/available for any paid remote recruitment work within football (club or consultancy). I've done public analysis for nearly a decade, and have a bit of experience working within the game as well during the early parts of Covid (2020-21)

A small infographic showing a variable-width bar chart. The title is 'the digital divide' and the chart shows in which countries men have better access to the internet, and in which countries women have better access. Everything in this visual related to men has been colored in purple, everything related to women in orange.

🎨 Consistency: possibly the most important consideration when using color in a data visual or dashboard.

The role of color is not (only) to make your visual look good, but mainly functional: to provide emphasis and structure, to draw the attention or distinguish categories.

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I’m contractually obligated to tell you guys the Boston Red Sox added Jhoestynxon Garcia to their 40-man roster and his nickname is “The Password.”

How do they reduce the list? So many of these guys are all time greats. I'd put nearly 15 of them in the Hall of Fame. The fight to get in is brutal.

Yeah Twitter will just be the raw Score Beo for me now. Can't see GAA teams moving quickly.

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Had to turn the tape over on the cm64 to load the man utd game. Then turn it back to load the fixtures/team selection.

Introduce yourself with four video games:

A piece on a strange fight week in Texas 🎪

The future of boxing journalism, sport and life exists on a screen

www.irishexaminer.com/sport/others...

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

If youre still looking for your tribe, here’s a directory of hundreds of starter packs covering all interests and searchable by keyword. Repost and check it out.

He had some engine, big guy but ran all day.

If, like me, you are among the mass migration of users onto this platform and struggled to find people, this link is super useful for recommending/finding accounts based on who you already follow.

bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

Just need the #GAA world to move here now.... Mon ta f**k

Slot's Liverpool continue to defy bookies expectations.
#epl #lfc