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Rob Suddaby @robsuddaby.bsky.social · 4h

We're hosting a new series of live webinars designed to share insights from some of the game’s leading coaches and technical experts based upon our in-depth analysis of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025.

Register on the FIFA Training Centre👇🏻

World club football series

Learn from Roberto Martínez, Aliou Cissé, Jürgen Klinsmann and others.

www.fifatrainingcentre.com

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Karun Singh @karun1710.bsky.social · 3h

We're hiring a Data Scientist at @arsenalfc.bsky.social to push the state-of-the-art in applied women's football research! careers.arsenal.com/jobs/6550595...

Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 8h

Project write-up finished! And with that, it's gonna be a project wrap and I will leave the dashboard to time. The link and the dashboard will stay online until Streamlit Cloud is shut down, but there will be no more support for it besides from fixing a few bugs.

daryldao.com/portfolio/al...

A-League Women Recruitment Dashboard

Overview Having taken a fairly long break from working on football projects, I was inspired by the new A-League Women season that will kick off in late October 2025 (at the time of writing) and the…

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 7h

I'll be going back to mostly reposting other people's work because a lot of them deserve more attention on here and I don't have anything valuable to contribute 🙂

Daryl @daryldao.com · 8h

There are a lot more that I want to say, but they are mostly personal thoughts and I think no one would be interested in reading them, so I'll keep it to myself.

If anyone is interested in knowing the technical side of the dashboard, I'm happy to do an extra write-up on my blog!

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 8h

Project write-up finished! And with that, it's gonna be a project wrap and I will leave the dashboard to time. The link and the dashboard will stay online until Streamlit Cloud is shut down, but there will be no more support for it besides from fixing a few bugs.

daryldao.com/portfolio/al...

A-League Women Recruitment Dashboard

Overview Having taken a fairly long break from working on football projects, I was inspired by the new A-League Women season that will kick off in late October 2025 (at the time of writing) and the…

daryldao.com

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The Transfer Flow @thetransferflow.bsky.social · 1d

Atalanta's new signing at striker is averaging over 5 shots per 90 while cutting out the 30-yard bombs he was forced to take on a bad team last year.

Meet Nikola Krstović, who appears set for a mid-career breakout:

www.thetransferflow.com/p/meet-atala...

Meet Atalanta's new shot monster

With over 5 shots per 90, Nikola Krstović could be a breakout star in Serie A.

www.thetransferflow.com

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Mohamed @moesquare.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect Ben Torvaney isn't on here, but I'd be remiss to not mention an old blog post of his on the value of bad chances in certain contexts, as it was applicable to Krstović during his time with Lecce and was discussed in the piece. Hope you enjoy!

www.statsandsnakeoil.com/2021/01/24/a...

Are bad shots actually good?

Last month, I saw an interesting tweet from Kees van Hemmen (emphasis is my own): Correct me if I’m wrong here but, if you’re a low quality side in a league, you’d actually prefer a dozen long shots

www.statsandsnakeoil.com

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Paul Harvey @paulharvey.theoutfield.nyc · 19h

I have been working on a new USA Soccer stat hub for a couple of months now in Tableau, as I grew increasingly dissatisfied with what I put together at the start of 2025. It's *finally* ready for public consumption. The images here don't show the half of it:

public.tableau.com/views/MLSAdv...

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 1d

Just want to say a quick thank you to anyone who has given the app a try! I do have a lot to say about why I decided to make the app and having to battle my own thoughts in the process, but I will do a long write-up to explain everything soon. But I really, really appreciate your support ❤️

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 1d

Random shouts but my guesses are either Shibasaki, Funabashi, or Tachibanada?

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

It's probably time to give this project a full release huh?

From the league that brought you Sam Kerr, Kyra Cooney-Cross and Mary Fowler, if you want to find the future and past Matildas, let FBRef's data and this Streamlit app be your best friend!

alw-recruitment-dashboard.streamlit.app

#woso

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 1d

Hate that they haven't learned their lesson from the U20 Asian Cup. This same team had the same problem against Iraq and almost got eliminated as well. A bit sad for the players tbh

Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

I think it was more because of how I handled the data, but thank you! 😅

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

Have published a fix for this to loading data from cloud and add more caching to it. Knew it would be a problem at some point but didn't expect the caching stuff to hit me this soon. Hopefully app should be online for longer now 🤞

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

The issue in question. Thanks to Atomic Elbow for letting me know.

bsky.app/profile/atom...

Atomic Elbow @atomicelbow.bsky.social · 2d

I'm interested to check out your project but I got this message when I went to that link.

This app has gone over its resource limits.
It's using too much memory! A few possible solutions:
Upgrade the Streamlit version of this app to the latest release.
Follow these tips to make the app use less memory.
Fill out this form if you have a good-for-the-world use case and need more resources.

Notify app developer
If you need help, ask in the forum or contact support.

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

Just a heads up but I've been aware of Streamlit's over capacity issue. It didn't come up during development and I did not think about the problem while I got the app up and running. I am working on a fix and will get that online asap, for now, I'll keep the app online by rebooting it a few times.

Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

It's probably time to give this project a full release huh?

From the league that brought you Sam Kerr, Kyra Cooney-Cross and Mary Fowler, if you want to find the future and past Matildas, let FBRef's data and this Streamlit app be your best friend!

alw-recruitment-dashboard.streamlit.app

#woso

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

Should be back online now, but I will investigate what's causing the over capacity issues. It wasn't something that I came across while developing the app so it will take me a bit to investigate and fix. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

Thanks for the heads up! I will get that fixed asap

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

Talked the talk, walked the walk. At least I hope I did FBRef's data some justice and gave them a reason to keep the data for next season.

bsky.app/profile/dary...

Daryl @daryldao.com · Jan 25

I might be one of the only very few who used advanced data about the ALW, but without FBRef's advanced data, I would not have been able to write this article or created the dashboard about Sharn Freier. At least I enjoyed it while it lasted.

bsky.app/profile/talk...

Daryl @daryldao.com · Jan 17

I'm procrastinating again, and that means an article that's semi-related to the project I'm working on! Inspired by @markcarey93.bsky.social's work, I tried to use PCA in an attempt to identify the correct role that Brisbane Roar's Alicia Woods is playing in.

www.talking-tactics.com/p/alicia-woo...

Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

If you're into the technical stuff, I've made the GitHub repo of the app public. I don't see a point of keeping it private cause I hope this app will inspire someone to create cool football projects, especially for women's football. I will explain more on this later.

github.com/daryl-g/alw-...

GitHub - daryl-g/alw-toty-dashboard: A football recruitment dashboard using data from the 2024-25 A-League Women

A football recruitment dashboard using data from the 2024-25 A-League Women - daryl-g/alw-toty-dashboard

github.com

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

Once again, if you spot any bugs or errors that pop up while you're using the app, please do not hesitate to reply on this post, DM me, or create an issue on the GitHub repo that comes with it! I will try my best to fix it as soon as possible throughout this week.

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 2d

It's probably time to give this project a full release huh?

From the league that brought you Sam Kerr, Kyra Cooney-Cross and Mary Fowler, if you want to find the future and past Matildas, let FBRef's data and this Streamlit app be your best friend!

alw-recruitment-dashboard.streamlit.app

#woso

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Catalina @catabush.com · 2d

On the tenets of NWSL roster-building and why you can extrapolate a strategy that *probably* has a good chance of working:

statesidestats.substack.com/p/the-econom...

The Economics of Expansion Teams

How do you go from structure to players?

statesidestats.substack.com

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Daryl @daryldao.com · 3d

One regular day/international break of Asian football. That's all I ask for. Will never happen.