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Football

What Are Expected Assists (xA)?

Expected assists (xA) measure the likelihood that a given pass will become a goal assist based on several factors about the pass.

3 years ago Jonny Whitmore

MLB

Contact+: Which Hitters Are Baseball’s Best at Making Frequent Contact?

In this installment of a series on advanced baseball metrics, we look at what contact+ reveals about the greatness of DJ LeMahieu.

3 years ago The Analyst

Metric Explainers

Framing Runs: It’s Not About ‘Stealing Extra Strikes’

As part of our series on advanced baseball metrics, we examine what framing runs tell us about the game’s best pitch framers behind the plate. Things turned ugly one…

3 years ago Taylor Bechtold

Metric Explainers

Strike+: Who Thrives on Racking Up Both Whiffs and Called Strikes?

While whiff+ offers a more thorough analysis of a pitcher’s stuff by determining the rate at which he generates swings and misses, strike+ takes that concept a step further. Ultimately, the goal…

3 years ago The Analyst

Baseball

Reads from The Analyst (US) – Trailer

If you like American sport – whether it is football, baseball, basketball or hockey – then you will love the Reads from The Analyst (US). It is your audio home for…

3 years ago Graham Bell

Football

Reads from The Analyst – Trailer

If you like sport, then you will love the Reads from The Analyst! It is your audio home for data-driven storytelling from the team behind TheAnalyst.com. We are going to delve…

3 years ago Graham Bell

Football

Advanced Metrics: Top Five European Leagues

The top 500 players with at least 900 minutes in Europe’s elite leagues by attacking metrics aggregated to per 90 values for season 2020-21.

3 years ago Peter McKeever

Football

‘That Was Sheer, Delightful Football’: How Brazil Cemented Football’s Place as the World’s Most Popular Sport

Growing up in England with football in the 1960s and 1970s was very different from today. The foreign superstars playing in English football were from the rest of Great Britain…

3 years ago Rob Bateman

Football

Do You Remember the First Time: Matt Le Tissier

Matt Le Tissier made 540 appearances for Southampton. He never won a trophy or finished higher than seventh. Despite that, he is a Saints legend revered by fans on the…

3 years ago Jon Reeve

Football

Remembering Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona is one of the most iconic players in World Cup history. In celebration of his life and achievements, we have dug deeper into the numbers behind the Argentine's…

4 years ago The Analyst

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What Are Expected Assists (xA)?

Contact+: Which Hitters Are Baseball’s Best at Making Frequent Contact?

Framing Runs: It’s Not About ‘Stealing Extra Strikes’

Strike+: Who Thrives on Racking Up Both Whiffs and Called Strikes?

Reads from The Analyst (US) – Trailer

Reads from The Analyst – Trailer

Advanced Metrics: Top Five European Leagues

‘That Was Sheer, Delightful Football’: How Brazil Cemented Football’s Place as the World’s Most Popular Sport

Do You Remember the First Time: Matt Le Tissier

Remembering Diego Maradona