Posts tagged “statistics”

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

July 28, 2026

13 min read

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.

data-science

football-analytics

statistics

world-cup

graph-analytics

I Built a Prediction Engine for a World Cup I Never Watched

July 14, 2026

15 min read

How I placed 7th in a global World Cup 2026 prediction game at 75% accuracy — with a 1997 Dixon-Coles Poisson model, bookmaker calibration, and every mistake I made building it.

data-science

machine-learning

football-analytics

statistics

world-cup