Paul Power

It's great to be able to share the new Game Intelligence Defensive Models we've developed at SkillCorner. We think we're taking the next step in how to evaluate defenders with more to come. youtu.be/4O1D5rl4sMQ

In my approach to agentic statistics, the agent creates friction on purpose. It costs you a few minutes per step but it is the difference between being in or out of the loop. wordalisation.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-statistics-and-data-science/overview/

A new course, on agentic AI for statistics and data science. How to make an analysis end to end: messy data in, question fixed, figures, tests, and a report someone could review. wordalisation.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-statistics-and-data-science/overview/

Zion Suzuki vs Man City | Premier League 2026-27 Good shot stoppers are extremely valuable and Suzuki is so much more than just that.

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Pittsburgh Pirates – Biomechanist Openings blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

We are coming up on the deadline! This is the best opportunity to get your work in front of club practitioners in the US. I know our team at US Soccer has engaged and iterated on several of the research ideas from this conference over the past two years.

Get your proposals in by Friday!

The other thing I like about this is that it’s going to serve as a great point of reference for dealing with this bad faith nonsense going forwards

"Without humans doing the heavy lifting of conceptual novelty, the AI's brute-force engine has no direction to steer toward. It is a parasitic entity that requires the very human creativity it is economically devaluing." #AIEthics #AIPolicy #AcademicSky

The 2027 Big Data Bowl hackathon is live! It's a big entrypoint for people looking to get into sports analytics and tracking data.

Holy shit.

The best way to get your work in front of industry professionals in soccer analytics? Submit a research proposal to the American Soccer Insights Summit!

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

£300 for the nba game is wild

PSA

Yesterday, we launched 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝟐.𝟎 in collaboration with @skillcorner.bsky.social! Participate and build with 10 games of Basketball tracking data and/or 20 games of Football tracking data (including two games of pose data!). 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭. www.analytics-cup.org

If I were a party strategist, I'd keep hammering at Reform's money. This isn't some "people's army". It's a party owned and paid for by some of the richest people on the planet, which is awash with cash but can't find "British resident donors that would support us". www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

The demo is available now here 🚀 andrewrowlinson.github.io/soccerviewer/

This looks interesting! My reading folder swells

Lawyers Say Andrew Tate Rented Brother To Appear Loved Online

The A's just did one of the coolest things I've seen in their broadcast: Just unfiltered audio of the live director calling a Lawrence Butler plate appearance...that went about as well as they could have hoped for.

Have you purchased the hottest new release in football on Amazon this week?

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Imagine a final between the lowest ranked team at the tournament and a team that technically failed to qualify for the tournament. WAFCON has just delivered that🫡 (Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/odriozolite)

This research paper in The Lancet - the UK’s oldest and most respected medical journal - estimates that Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID will cause over 14,000,000 avoidable deaths by 2030. Fourteen. Million. Deaths.

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

The American Soccer Insights Summit is back for 2027. The Summit will be held at Rice University on March 26th and 27th, during a FIFA men's international break window. Registration is now open: americansoccerinsights.com/registration/

One thing students often struggle with as we get deeper into Bayesian statistics is that uncertainty is more than just sampling uncertainty. So I wrote something about the different kinds of uncertainty and why the distinction matters bayesiana.substack.com/p/what-3-doe...

Good Night World

Enter this year's Carnegie Mellon #SportsAnalytics Conference (Oct 23-24) #ReproducibleResearch Competition! forms.gle/GUXbxGbkkoiq... NEW: Winning authors receive an exclusive invitation to submit to the Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports jsds-sports.github.io

I wrote about the NBA’s increasingly stupid analytics vs. eye test conversation: www.theringer.com/2026/08/03/n...

It’s not a revelation that the president of the USA is one of the most prolific white-collar criminals on Earth, but what is slightly galling is that nobody seems to care all that much.

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

A reminder that, in June, Reform reinstated Sunderland councillor Glenn Gibbins, a man who suggested Nigerians should be melted down and used to fill potholes. Nigel Farage did not report this to the police, did not demand he face legal consequences, and still welcomes him in his party.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

I'm looking for the next generation of football writers! Please help share this far and wide

Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists

Yes Rooney lad

I mean this is pretty terrible but don't mime at least

We did a Book chapter earlier this year with Argentinian national team coach/analyst Matias Manna - reframing how football analyses can be understood and applied. A shift from a conventional detached observer toward a “Linking Coach” a relational facilitator of shared understanding within the team.

I’m so happy for them

Timothée Mallette

SCOUTED Pro is now live. Powered by SkillCorner's industry leading Physical & Game Intelligence data, Pro is a monthly editorial built specifically to accelerate player discovery for professional recruitment teams, agencies and federations. Learn more: pro.scoutedftbl.com/product/

Build patience into childhood rather than urgency -Haaland spent the next eight years involved in handball, athletics and cross-country skiing as well as football. Norway’s handball setup reportedly wanted him before he chose football at 14. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

If you haven’t seen it’s glorious

Miggy you buffoon

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."