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Your Club's Coach Might be Sacrificing Talent for Stylistic or Tactical Fit

Nov 10, 2025 7 min read Strategy

An essay on the style-talent tensions that manifest when building a team.

Álvaro Fernández Carreras: a case study in portable traits and falsifiable projections

Nov 3, 2025 4 min read

This piece shows how a lightweight, falsifiable scouting framework flagged Álvaro Fernández Carreras early and held up through his 2025 jump to Real Madrid. The approach centers on portable traits, role elasticity, improvement

What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?

Oct 31, 2025 4 min read Strategy

What happens if you got outsiders in the sporting world yet experts in their own fields thinking about sport at large?

Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers

Oct 31, 2025 2 min read Mechanics

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

Epistemic Certainty in Sports

Jul 12, 2025 4 min read Strategy

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

What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?

How to Classify Running Capacity among Elite Players

Reverse-Engineering: How Players and Teams Poke Football's Margins

Deducing a Player's Fit From Their Tackling Mechanics

Projections: Manchester United's Amad Diallo

Your Club's Coach Might be Sacrificing Talent for Stylistic or Tactical Fit

Álvaro Fernández Carreras: a case study in portable traits and falsifiable projections

What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?

Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers

Epistemic Certainty in Sports