Sakthiish Vijayadass
Writing · Singapore

I write about whatever I can’t stop thinking about.

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Start hereJuly 28, 2026 · 13 min

I Mapped Every Pass at Two World Cups. The Hub Is Never the Headline.

Graph analysis of 22 World Cup passing networks says the structural hub is never a leading scorer — until I built a second metric that disagreed with the first 13 times out of 22.

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hub was never a top scorer
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times my two metrics disagreed
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matches Otamendi anchored
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Argentina's semi-final passing network. Nicolás Otamendi, in red, is the structural hub — and under the stricter test in this post, he is the hub in all seven of Argentina's matches.

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