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.

Nov 10, 2025 • Luqman Kabange

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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…

Nov 3, 2025 • Joel A. Adejola

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October 2025

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?

Oct 31, 2025 • Joel A. Adejola

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Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers

Notes from Bayern vs Chelsea - September 2025 in the Champions League

Oct 31, 2025 • Joel A. Adejola

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July 2025

Epistemic Certainty in Sports

This essay poses a hypothetical and offers solution-frames to discuss epistemic certainty in scouting and recruitment.

Jul 12, 2025 • Joel A. Adejola

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June 2025

Which team played better?

Essay discussing high-level considerations and difficulties when analyzing performance.

Jun 18, 2025 • Luqman Kabange

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10 Reasons You Got McTominay so Wrong

And how reading this blog could have prevented that.

Jun 5, 2025 • Joel A. Adejola

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January 2025

Justified True Belief

Is anything consequential in sports?

Jan 19, 2025 • Joel A. Adejola

December 2024

Using Operational Research to Explain Football Analysis

This essay compares operational research and football analysis to derive practical insights applicable to both fields.

Dec 9, 2024 • Luqman Kabange

November 2024

New Beginnings: Luqman A. Kabange

Meet me, the new guy. Who am I? Why am I here? What to expect? My goals and principles.

Nov 18, 2024 • Luqman Kabange

October 2024

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…

Oct 7, 2024 • Joel A. Adejola

September 2024

How to Classify Running Capacity among Elite Players

And why those who can run and carry aggression into subsequent duels are in high-demand.

Sep 28, 2024 • Joel A. Adejola