An Easter weekend edition of The Week in International Sport went out to Plot the Ball subscribers earlier today.
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Posts by Ben Wylie
An Easter weekend edition of The Week in International Sport went out to Plot the Ball subscribers earlier today.
You can read it here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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Yesterday, Ellyse Perry became the oldest player to take a wicket in a women's T20I for Australia (35y 140d).
Remarkably, Perry now holds the record for being both Australia's oldest and youngest wicket-taker in the format, having taken 4-20 aged 17y 90d on debut against England in 2008.
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This year at Plot the Ball, I’ve already covered 48 different nations across 19 different sports.
The latest edition of my weekly newsletter recapping the latest in international sport has just been published.
You can read and subscribe here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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This year at Plot the Ball, I’ve already covered 48 different nations across 19 different sports.
The latest edition of my weekly newsletter recapping the latest in international sport has just been published.
You can read and subscribe here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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there is a precise form of takery that likes to pretend "the ascent of Premier League financial and football power" implies that there are literally no great teams with great players on the continent and the success of Real Madrid, Barcelona and PSG invalidates analysis of financial stratification
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Japan proved their mettle as favourites in an impressive 4-1 win over South Korea to set up a blockbuster final showdown with Australia. My latest Asian Cup report from Australia for The Cutback:
www.thecutback.com/p/womens-asi...
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An excerpt from the latest edition of my newsletter, Plot the Ball, about the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
Some of the most enjoyable sport I’ve watched so far this year has been at the World Baseball Classic.
I wrote briefly about the ongoing tournament in this week’s edition of Plot the Ball — as well as some 3x3 basketball, men’s rugby union and more.
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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An excerpt from the latest edition of my newsletter, Plot the Ball, about the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
Some of the most enjoyable sport I’ve watched so far this year has been at the World Baseball Classic.
I wrote briefly about the ongoing tournament in this week’s edition of Plot the Ball — as well as some 3x3 basketball, men’s rugby union and more.
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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With a bunch of new followers, I wanted to re-introduce myself 👋🏻.
Every Saturday, I publish a newsletter called Plot the Ball 📊🏐 — where I use data to tell better stories about sport.
To get this week’s edition in your inbox, subscribe here: www.plottheball.com
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The latest edition of Plot the Ball went out on Monday.
This week, I recapped the Men's T20 World Cup, looked at some data on where top women's soccer players come from and picked out a moment I enjoyed from Lucy Hamilton's test debut for Australia: plottheball.substack.com/p/the-week-i...
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The latest edition of Plot the Ball went out on Monday.
This week, I recapped the Men's T20 World Cup, looked at some data on where top women's soccer players come from and picked out a moment I enjoyed from Lucy Hamilton's test debut for Australia: plottheball.substack.com/p/the-week-i...
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The two Liverpool-Wolves games — same teams, same locations, three days apart — were a nice little experiment to show just how volatile soccer is from a game to game basis, even when nothing fundamental changes at all.
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The latest edition of Plot the Ball is here!
This week, I enjoyed learning more about how good the Netherlands are at field hockey — particularly on the women’s side.
Subscribe if you want to keep up to date with what’s happening across international sport: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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The latest edition of Plot the Ball is here!
This week, I enjoyed learning more about how good the Netherlands are at field hockey — particularly on the women’s side.
Subscribe if you want to keep up to date with what’s happening across international sport: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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Found an excuse to make some flashy dataviz to display how different the points distribution in the 2025/26 Premier League is compared to recent seasons.
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Today at Plot the Ball, I used my ‘Rank the Nations’ database to take a look at the recent ice hockey tournaments at the Winter Olympics.
You can read the latest edition of the newsletter here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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Today at Plot the Ball, I used my ‘Rank the Nations’ database to take a look at the recent ice hockey tournaments at the Winter Olympics.
You can read the latest edition of the newsletter here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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This website's presenting some nice shot maps for each game, as well as manually-tracked 'scoring chance' counts across the entire tournament: hockeystats.com/olympics
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This week’s edition of Plot the Ball introduces one of the major questions I’ll be asking as part of the ‘Rank the Nations’ project.
How do countries’ performance levels differ across different versions of the same sport?
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This week’s edition of Plot the Ball introduces one of the major questions I’ll be asking as part of the ‘Rank the Nations’ project.
How do countries’ performance levels differ across different versions of the same sport?
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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A fairytale World Cup run for Northern Ireland, powered by Dan Ballard set-piece goals?
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The Big Five era had a good run
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The latest edition of The Week in International Sport has gone out to subscribers.
Featuring today: handball in Egypt 🇪🇬 and Denmark 🇩🇰, futsal in Brazil 🇧🇷 and rugby union in Wales 🏴.
You can read it here:
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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The latest edition of The Week in International Sport has gone out to subscribers.
Featuring today: handball in Egypt 🇪🇬 and Denmark 🇩🇰, futsal in Brazil 🇧🇷 and rugby union in Wales 🏴.
You can read it here:
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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After their loss last night, Real Madrid have dropped outside of the top 10 in the Opta Power Rankings for the first time in over 5 years.
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in the latest Expecting Goals newsletter (free to read!) I broke down the numbers on the Premier League set piece revolution and why I think it marks a major new tactical trend in the Premier League that will be unusually difficult to dislodge www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-set-pi...
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In Plot the Ball this week: a look at the state of men’s water polo, the trajectory of Fiji in rugby sevens and a few other interesting things I learned about international sport 🌍.
You can read — and subscribe to get the newsletter directly every Monday — here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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In Plot the Ball this week: a look at the state of men’s water polo, the trajectory of Fiji in rugby sevens and a few other interesting things I learned about international sport 🌍.
You can read — and subscribe to get the newsletter directly every Monday — here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
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