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BasketballCarlik Jones and EuroLeague Week 1: A Metric That Ignores the OpponentIn the third quarter, with the lead already past fifteen, Carlik Jones caught...
Domestic FootballThe Empty Stands of Nha Trang: Where Vietnamese Youth Football Is Still Being Recorded, Ball by BallIn the last three matches of a youth team within the central region's academy...
International FootballVietnam After the 2026 ASEAN Cup: Three Data Anomalies and an Unnamed Structural Hole2:47 a.m. Chengdu was quiet enough that I could hear the elevator in the...
Table TennisAbiodun Wins Europe Youth Top 10 U19: The Three French Names Are the Real DataThree in the morning in Binh Duong, I opened the results sheet of a European...
International FootballWhen the System Called El Chapo a Footballer: Wrong Labels and How We Misread a MatchOn the hard drive in my Hamburg office sits a text file labelled "football" o...
EsportsWhen Sports Data Is Empty: Lessons in Information Verification from an Esports AnalysisEmpty sports data: Lessons on information verification from an esports analys...
International FootballVAR, an 87th-minute red card and Mbappé's knee: Zidane opens with an incomplete 1-0 winIn the 87th minute, the referee left his position in the middle of the pitch...
International FootballUnwritten Reports: The Fine-Mesh Net Catching 47 Tactical Fouls in Ligue 1Minute 87 at Groupama Stadium. Lyon lead Marseille 1-0, and Adrien Rabiot...
EsportsBLAST Loses the VRS Top Tier to PGL: Unpaid Invoices and a Causal Chain Nobody Has ProvenOn an episode of HLTV Confirmed, Chad Burchill — known to Counter-Strike...
TennisPakistan – Deutsche Bank: The Financial Court Match and the Gulf Capital Attraction StrategyI have followed hundreds of tennis matches from the technical area, but I hav...
Badminton2026: The Sepak Takraw Gold Medal and the Unfinished Arithmetic of TimeOn December 15, 2026, inside the central hall in Bangkok, the rattan ball lef...
AthleticsThe Blank Columns on Vietnam's Athletics Results SheetsThe results sheet was pasted on the corridor wall after the women's 400m fina...
Domestic FootballThe Seven-Minute Board and the Thirty-Five-Year Trophy: The Integrity File Around Indonesia's 2026 ASEAN Cup TitleMinute 88. The referee raises the electronic board: two minutes of added time...
International FootballXavi vs Klopp National Team Debut: The Data Table Says One Thing, the Media Says AnotherSome matches matter less for their result than for what they mark. The debut...
International FootballQuinones, Rodgers and the level-transfer test: a dossier short on evidenceIn the 31st minute at Al-Qadsiah's ground, Musab Al-Juwayr whipped a cross fr...
Table TennisTable Tennis England Releases 2026/26 Annual Report: London 2026 Takes Center Stage, Members' Day Reveals Ambition for TransparencyA 76-page report, digital-only, with the bold headline 'Your sport, your voic...
International FootballVietnamese Football and the 'Empty Data' TrapWhen I was fired from The Sporting Seoul, I thought I had lost everything. Bu...
Table TennisLowri Hurd and Rob Davies Win Gold for Great Britain at ITTF World Para Future in SpainLowri Hurd and Rob Davies delivered two gold medals for the British Para Tabl...
Table TennisWhen the Table Tennis Report Returns Zero: A Lesson in Data HonestyOn Tuesday morning, I opened the analysis file that the data team had sent...
Domestic FootballMalaysia 1-0 Vietnam: The Twelve-Year Silence and an Unverified PromiseThe match ended at 22:47 Jakarta time. In the stands of Gelora Bung Karno, mo...
