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Catalina

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Catalina @catabush.com · 1h

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Jamon M - MLS and footy analysis @jamonm.bsky.social · 2h

Friday Stat Dump: Saves and Save %

The analytics folk, me included, have for the past decade or so extolled the virtues of evaluating goalkeepers on something like goals against - post-shot xG (G-PSxG).

I don't think that's wrong, per se, but, if that is the only metric, we've got some issues.

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Catalina @catabush.com · 7h

Cant wait to see what you do next, Jeff!

Catalina @catabush.com · 1d

mayyybbeee

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Catalina @catabush.com · 1d

I mean it was after rugby practice

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Catalina @catabush.com · 1d

@gingers4hal.bsky.social @socratescousin.bsky.social

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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 · 3d

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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Catalina @catabush.com · 2d

Averages are calculated by game-state and position, based on data from 2016-2025. All seasons/players available. There's also a table view!

Catalina @catabush.com · 2d

new tableau drop??

This is still a little experimental, but I created a dashboard for viewing NWSL player-level g+ broken down and standardized by game-state. Resulting metric is "g+ above average per 32 mins IGS (in game-state)". Let me know what you think!

public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Barbra Banda g+ above average by game-state

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Catalina @catabush.com · 3d

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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Catalina @catabush.com · 4d

I do think ur right that ED was probably doing it at a much higher rate than the median. But today, Gen Z talk is nearly inseparable from concepts/terms popularized by tiktok. I had an entire conversation about “A talented band of mice” last week, which you wouldn’t understand if ur not on the app.

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Catalina @catabush.com · 4d

To be clear, I dont think its a bad thing, but I do think it accelerates pre-existing anti-intellectual sentiments. The speed at which content changes means that references become easily outdated, forcing us to follow along to not get left behind.

Likewise, reading books becomes counterproductive.

Catalina @catabush.com · 4d

maybe even more than ED did. Gen Z in particular consumes an insane amount of content every day, and it is, like ED, reflected in our communication. Except instead of

"Calmly as to a night’s repose,–
Like flowers at set of sun"

we get

"It's not clocking to you that I'm standing on business"

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Catalina @catabush.com · 4d

I read a lot of letters by Emily Dickinson, and it's striking how often she quotes passages from different literary works. I think the natural question is "why don't we do that anymore", with the easy response being "bc we don't read." But I don't think that's true. I think we do read a lot...

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American Soccer Insights Summit @americansoccerinsights.com · 4d

The announcements continue!

The ASI Summit is excited to welcome its next speaker, Albert Cohen. Cohen is the Director of Actuarial Science as well as the Graduate Certificate in Sports Analytics at Michigan State University.

Register for the Summit: americansoccerinsights.com/registration/