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Your Club's Coach Might be Sacrificing Talent for Stylistic or Tactical Fit
An essay on the style-talent tensions that manifest when building a team.
 • Luqman Kabange
Álvaro Fernández Carreras: a case study in portable traits and falsifiable projections
This piece shows how a lightweight, falsifiable scouting framework flagged Álvaro Fernández Carreras early and held up through his 2025 jump to Real…
 • Joel A. Adejola
What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?
What happens if you got outsiders in the sporting world yet experts in their own fields thinking about sport at large?
 • Joel A. Adejola
Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers
Notes from Bayern vs Chelsea - September 2025 in the Champions League
 • Joel A. Adejola
Epistemic Certainty in Sports
This essay poses a hypothetical and offers solution-frames to discuss epistemic certainty in scouting and recruitment.
 • Joel A. Adejola
Which team played better?
Essay discussing high-level considerations and difficulties when analyzing performance.
 • Luqman Kabange
10 Reasons You Got McTominay so Wrong
And how reading this blog could have prevented that.
 • Joel A. Adejola
Justified True Belief
Is anything consequential in sports?
 • Joel A. Adejola
Using Operational Research to Explain Football Analysis
This essay compares operational research and football analysis to derive practical insights applicable to both fields.
 • Luqman Kabange
New Beginnings: Luqman A. Kabange
Meet me, the new guy. Who am I? Why am I here? What to expect? My goals and principles.
 • Luqman Kabange
Precision Play: Why Mechanics Matter
This essay argues that mechanics is the single most important predictor of skill transfer between footballing environments – and suggests a roadmap to…
 • Joel A. Adejola
How to Classify Running Capacity among Elite Players
And why those who can run and carry aggression into subsequent duels are in high-demand.
 • Joel A. Adejola
There Are No Superstars Left, Only Entertainers
and it's obscuring the beautiful game.
 • Joel A. Adejola
Projections: Mali U-17's Sékou Koné
Mali U-17's Sekou Kone has joined Manchester United from Guidars FC. The writer discusses their 9-month old projection on the starlet who, at that time…
 • Joel A. Adejola
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Football analytics essays and scouting writing (2023–2025). Archived. New analytical work is published at statswing.com/research.
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