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Using data to tell better stories about international sport at Plot the Ball https://www.plottheball.com ben@plottheball.com Data journalist at Insurance Insider in my day job https://www.insuranceinsider.com ben.wylie@insuranceinsider.com
The latest edition of Plot the Ball is here!
This week, I enjoyed learning more about how good the Netherlands are at field hockey β particularly on the womenβs side.
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The latest edition of Plot the Ball is here!
This week, I enjoyed learning more about how good the Netherlands are at field hockey β particularly on the womenβs side.
Subscribe if you want to keep up to date with whatβs happening across international sport: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
Finally wrote about ice hockey in my football blog.
www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/football-2-0...
Found an excuse to make some flashy dataviz to display how different the points distribution in the 2025/26 Premier League is compared to recent seasons.
Today at Plot the Ball, I used my βRank the Nationsβ database to take a look at the recent ice hockey tournaments at the Winter Olympics.
You can read the latest edition of the newsletter here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
Today at Plot the Ball, I used my βRank the Nationsβ database to take a look at the recent ice hockey tournaments at the Winter Olympics.
You can read the latest edition of the newsletter here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
This website's presenting some nice shot maps for each game, as well as manually-tracked 'scoring chance' counts across the entire tournament: hockeystats.com/olympics
With a bunch of new followers, I wanted to re-introduce myself ππ».
Every Saturday, I publish a newsletter called Plot the Ball ππ β where I use data to tell better stories about sport.
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This weekβs edition of Plot the Ball introduces one of the major questions Iβll be asking as part of the βRank the Nationsβ project.
How do countriesβ performance levels differ across different versions of the same sport?
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This weekβs edition of Plot the Ball introduces one of the major questions Iβll be asking as part of the βRank the Nationsβ project.
How do countriesβ performance levels differ across different versions of the same sport?
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
A fairytale World Cup run for Northern Ireland, powered by Dan Ballard set-piece goals?
The Big Five era had a good run
The latest edition of The Week in International Sport has gone out to subscribers.
Featuring today: handball in Egypt πͺπ¬ and Denmark π©π°, futsal in Brazil π§π· and rugby union in Wales π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ.
You can read it here:
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The latest edition of The Week in International Sport has gone out to subscribers.
Featuring today: handball in Egypt πͺπ¬ and Denmark π©π°, futsal in Brazil π§π· and rugby union in Wales π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ.
You can read it here:
www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
After their loss last night, Real Madrid have dropped outside of the top 10 in the Opta Power Rankings for the first time in over 5 years.
theanalyst.com/articles/who...
in the latest Expecting Goals newsletter (free to read!) I broke down the numbers on the Premier League set piece revolution and why I think it marks a major new tactical trend in the Premier League that will be unusually difficult to dislodge www.expectinggoals.com/p/the-set-pi...
In Plot the Ball this week: a look at the state of menβs water polo, the trajectory of Fiji in rugby sevens and a few other interesting things I learned about international sport π.
You can read β and subscribe to get the newsletter directly every Monday β here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
In Plot the Ball this week: a look at the state of menβs water polo, the trajectory of Fiji in rugby sevens and a few other interesting things I learned about international sport π.
You can read β and subscribe to get the newsletter directly every Monday β here: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...
the most telling part of the Deloitte Money League this year wasn't the top 20 it was the rankings of teams 21-30
it's a new world www.deloitte.com/uk/en/servic...
Wrote about the state of play for football, getting data, and getting insight, in the aftermath of the FBref news
www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/square-one/
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Well this is unfortunate www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/01...
Good time for someone to write about City's issues... Oh wait
#BGMCI #Footy-Live
Indiana football compiled a .384 winning percentage in the 25 seasons before this one.
No national champion performed worse during the stretch preceding its title, according to a Washington Post analysis.
11 german managers in the bundesliga.
a combined zero caps for the german national team between them.
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Plot the Ball is back! ππβοΈ
Today, I launched a really exciting new project. Over the last few months, Iβve been working on finding a better way to understand the landscape of international team sport.
You can read more about it here: www.plottheball.com/p/what-to-ex...
Plot the Ball is back! ππβοΈ
Today, I launched a really exciting new project. Over the last few months, Iβve been working on finding a better way to understand the landscape of international team sport.
You can read more about it here: www.plottheball.com/p/what-to-ex...
How good is the Olympic ice? Let's ask someone who played on it this weekend
Chatted with Florian Wieser about it today and then got some perspective Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond their Olympics thoughts.
My latest at Shap Shots
www.shapshotshockey.com/p/how-good-i...
Interview time on the @IrishTimesSport rugby podcast
Rory Best, an ex-Ireland captain under Joe Schmidt, is now general manager at Ulster
What does a GM actually do, and how have Ulster become Irish rugby's good news story?
Listen β¬οΈ
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/the...