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From Ali Dia to the 2026 spreadsheet: how labeling errors misprice footballersIn November 2026, Graeme Souness picked up the phone in his office at...
When the Source Is Empty, the Pen Must Stop: The Beat Keeper SpeaksThere are mornings in Busan when I sit alone in an empty stand, hearing the...
The Empty Spreadsheet and the 'Insufficient Data' Discipline of Transfer ReportingThe COVID season ground to a halt, so I turned to spreadsheets. On an April...
Two Korean Players Caught Cheating in the DFOS S3 Grand Final: Six-Month Ban and Total Prize ForfeitureIn Asian esports, few incidents are as shocking as a team being caught cheati...
2026 Asian Volleyball Championship: Qatar National Team Loses 0-3 to Thailand, 13-year-old Talent Mubarak Musa Thiik Madut Draws AttentionIn the Fukuoka venue, Japan, the second round of the 2026 Asian Men's...
Nine Analytical Dimensions, Not a Single Line of Data: Lessons from an Empty Esports Transfer ReportOn August 13, 2026, a twelve-page PDF was passed around a closed group chat o...
VCT trims to 32 partner teams: eight slots vanish and the $86M cheque gets redividedAt three in the morning, a team manager in the Asia-Pacific region opened the...
AEK: Bartley Out, Williams Back, and a Depth Test Across Two CompetitionsAEK: Bartley Out, Williams Back, and a Depth Test Across Two Competitions In...
Table Tennis Transfer Season: Amid the Storm of Rumors, Real People Remain the AnchorOn the old table by the window of a small club in Nha Trang lies a wooden...
Miazga leaves Cincinnati for NYCFC: An excavation inside MLSIn late summer, the city of Cincinnati quietly receives the news from MLS'...
Superintelligence in the Stands: Big Tech, Player Data and the Money Map of Modern FootballIn the 78th minute of a World Cup qualifier last June, a 24-year-old midfield...
The Boos at the Metropolitano: When the Home Stand Turns on Its Own PlayerThe stadium clock at the Wanda Metropolitano showed twenty minutes to kickoff...
CS2 Loses 19,620 Players in September: An Unprecedented Seven-Month Slide and the October TestOn September 23, I sat in front of my screen watching Steam Charts tick upwar...
Agnes Ngetich, the one-second world record and the thin line between two record booksOne second. Enough time for a coach to mistime the clock, for a glance to ski...
Do Hoang Hen out for three months: the recurring knee and Ha Noi FC's mid-season squad problemOn 2 October, a long interview with Do Hoang Hen was published. It opened wit...
The Blank Cell in the File: Women's Athletics and the Price of Never Being RecordedThe stand held a few hundred people, and the only camera sat fixed at the...
Adou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Two Pieces in Vietnam's Three-Center-Back SystemThe evening before the squad list was announced, I sat alone in my room...
Ninh Binh vs HAGL: Hoang Duc Returns, and the Four-Foreigner QuestionOn the final training session before round 4, I stood on the eastern touchlin...
Minute 54 at La Cartuja: Bernal, Yamal and the Cost of a Pointless ActAt La Cartuja, the lowest row of seats sits one eight-lane running track away...
Kipchoge breaks Melbourne Marathon course record at 41: two seconds of glory, eight minutes of distanceWhen Eliud Kipchoge ran into the tunnel leading to the Melbourne Cricket...
