Yes, Brian Sanderson, author of the Missborn series and the one who completed Roger Jordan’s epic, Will of Thyme.

Love listening to a sports writer talk about how much Wemby loves to read well-known fantasy author Brian Sanderson.

How do you say remontada in Norwegian?

Igor might have the shortest Tudor reign since Lady Jane Grey.

Malen just so good at getting into the spaces between/behind defenders

1-1 feels like the spiritually correct score for Parma-Cagliari

Note to self: leg day and fencing day should never overlap

More like UniversiBad imo

Also working on building this out for most of the other European leagues. Hoping to eventually use those for cross league comparison, aging curves, comparison for transfer values, etc

And for personal purposes, here’s the look at Roma’s squad last year. I separated players in to qualified/non qualified by minutes played. #roma

Obviously the biggest question then is “who are the good players” and I can say without a doubt that these were the best players in 2025 and all other opinions are wrong

(Part of this is also just confirmation that the xT model is working okay, I think)

Also wanted to compare the sum of the impact for players and how it compares to team performance. Weighting by minutes played, the xT net for players explains about 75% of the variance in goal differential.

Overall the net impacts were more stable than the off/def only sides. Also not a surprise: players that played more had more stable numbers. Here’s correlation for each stat by minutes cutoff for all players. These improve by a few points if you restrict to players that remained on the same team

Put together some basketball-style on-off ratings for xG and expected threat (xT) for Serie A. Not huge correlation for players with minimal minutes, but looks a little better when you set the cutoff using FB Ref’s qualifying thresholds (30 mins per match)

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS THE BEST COUNTRY TO EVER EXIST IN THE SPORT OF HOCKEY.

Same story but for Romeo and Juliet.

I wrote about the Fire and have some pretty big questions about how they're going to fill a Brian Gutiérrez-sized hole in the team.

Check out my hovercraft taxi service sometime. We work tirelessly to get you home safely.

Second straight Super Bowl in which a dude named Drake has been mercilessly bullied

I think you could make an argument that he had control when it touched the ground but I understand ruling it incomplete

Would agree with everything in here. The @americansoccerinsights.com summit was a great experience all around.

10/10 recipe. I know a recipe is a winner when both kids ask for seconds.

xOG Live in Houston 2026, with Catalina Bush & Chloe Dhillon! YouTube video by Expected Own Goals

We had so much fun at the @americansoccerinsights.com Summit last year, we had to come back for another live pod! We were joined by @catabush.com and Houston Dash analyst Chloe Dhillon for a great talk about the state of data in the women's game, for the public and for teams. Enjoy!

@iankarmel.bsky.social I have a question for the AFE crew: If you were in the Olympics, would you rather walk in with a huge team like the US, or a team that only has like 2 people?

Happy Ratboys day to all who celebrate

LOL I created an account months ago and then just left it dormant for forever, so it’s not as if I’ve been super active with it.

@therealhrdlicka.bsky.social looking for food recs for Vegas. Got anything? Most of the recs I’ve gotten so far have been Asian food so if you have any other cuisines I’ll gladly take them

It’s so good at this. If you’re able to clearly explain what you want or need something rewritten, it can save so much time.

Imagine making transfer offers for players based solely on these ratings