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Michael Caley

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I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 10d

brand new Expecting Goals study on soccer aging curves, position changes, and league effects

looking at trends in position changes, different trends in movement away from goal among attackers and defenders, and the strangeness of German center backs

www.expectinggoals.com/p/building-m...

Building Marcel, Part III: Contexts and Confounders

Using positional data and modeling to suggest the next steps forward and what may have been missed in the previous newsletters.

www.expectinggoals.com

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1h

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 16h

Here's what we know about the new Qatari air force training space being set up at Mountain Home AFB. Plan dates back nearly a decade, but Hegseth announced its going ahead today (and was short on many, many details). taskandpurpose.com/news/qatar-m...

Idaho Air Force base will host a Qatari F-15 training unit

Qatar will set up a facility inside Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which already serves a training base for Singaporean pilots.

taskandpurpose.com

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 17h

Nobody told me Chandler ever looked this way.

6'5" 211lb Vanderbilt Freshman #7 Chandler Bing is an African-American from Atlanta. The screenshot has his photo and bio from the Vandy roster.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18h

in general this admin seems to not understand why executing hostages *lowers* your leverage instead of raising it

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 19h

Yea fuck this keep it closed down come hell or high water

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17h

if this is just what's being made public a few days in what else did they give to Qatar to strong arm Hamas into accepting the deal

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 19h

and finally the Mousa episode is on Chelsea who are surely good, but ever more confounding the deeper you dig www.patreon.com/posts/140913...

Chelsea... Good? | The Double Pivot Podcast

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 19h

part ii for subscribers.

2 sorting 2 tables www.patreon.com/posts/140913...

Premier League Table Sorting, Part II | The Double Pivot Podcast

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 19h

we've got a bunch of international break @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social for you

and it's the true defining core of sports #analytics

sorting tables open.spotify.com/episode/6eC3...

Premier League Table Sorting

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 21h

Zohran Mamdani phasing out gifted programs for kindergarteners is fine.

But in later grades, progressive opposition to "tracking" is misguided imo. Ability sorting can be beneficial for all students, when done right www.vox.com/politics/464...

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

practiced self care this morning

bought a CD of Cheri Knight's pioneer valley alt county masterpiece Northeast Kingdom to add to my personal spotify because it's not on the streaming platforms

feeling good

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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 1d

Tish James said “there’s a nonzero chance this bullshit turns me into the President let’s go motherfucker.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

his path to City Hall also relies on getting maybe 40% of black outer boroughs Democrats

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo's path to City Hall relies on getting at least 75% of Trump supporters

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo keeps saying he’s the only candidate who can take on Trump once he’s in office.

Yet in his statement about the indictment of Letitia James, the highest-ranking Black elected official in the state, he doesn’t even mention Trump by name….and, more importantly, he doesn’t mention James.

Andrew Cuomo * @andrewcuomo
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In a democracy, the rule of law must be sacred - impartial, objective, and above politics. When the law is weaponized or manipulated to advance political agendas, it erodes public trust and weakens the very foundation of justice. Whether it comes from the right or the left, from prosecutors or politicians, the politicization of law enforcement is dangerous and corrosive.
We must restore faith in fairness, facts, and due process - because once justice becomes partisan, everyone loses.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

this is really fuckin funny

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

cares saved the economy ~immediately

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

I just struggle to see the process of this ceasefire as having significant Israeli agency in it -- as far as I can tell Bibi didn't want it, Ben Gvir is trying to kill it, but Trump got Qatar to get Hamas on board and then told Bibi he had to go along with it

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

There were lots of things the Biden White House did that were extremely good but they didn’t get credit for because of (to varying degrees) ideology, propagandization, mendaciousness, and abject stupidity.

Nothing involving the Middle East is on that list.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

beginning to see why previous managers of Spurs had it out for Spence for so long. this man is a villain

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

news alert

Djed Spence is cornerback posting again

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

look this is Brentford slander

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

and she has more or less the same ideology as the establishment is what's so goddam weird about it

the people running CBS News have hated the staffers telling them to add Palestinian voices to their roundtables for decades

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Bibi is particularly responsive to Israeli public opinion given the makeup of his cabinet and majority and his legal woes?

but of course that goes to the fundamental problem Biden had, even if he wanted to force concessions from Bibi he couldn't because Trump was there waiting

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

it's just like, people complaining about the ideological makeup of this panel, that's not wrong, it reflects a clear ideology but this has been the ideological makeup of The News for as long as I've been alive

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

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Skipjack @skipjack.bsky.social · 1d

Djed leading Spurs in celebration after he’s shepherded mbuemo out for United’s 20th corner

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

that's right