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We went on @thepostcincy.com’s podcast to talk about futi data, our new MLS Daily newsletter and how to be smarter about soccer stats.

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Totally chuffed to have an opportunity to do some weekly data storytelling with resources like g+ from @americansocceranalysis.com and Team Tendencies via @futi.live. This week we look at how RSL operated and how one change in offensive positioning ended up as a double-edged sword.

How to expect more from xG Getting from shot probabilities to team performance metrics

Expected goals are everywhere now, but there's so much more we can do with them. Here's how futi turns basic xG into team-level metrics including deserved results, projected points and projected finish.

I also shamelessly ripped off how @eliotmckinley.com used @futi.live data in his ASA preview of another Ohio team in making the case that maybe we'll be seeing a return to some old Noonan ball in 2026

For @sounderatheart.com I dove into @futi.live Team Tendencies and focused in on Sounders' signature tendency "Patient Possession," and how MLS, and the Western Conference in particular, has been more than edging in that same direction for a couple of seasons now.

Really fun to see how teams' tactical tendency data evolves over time.

Taking one final measure of the Western Conference The West in 2026 is shaping up to look a lot different from your Eurosnob uncle's conception of MLS.

We’ve been having a lot of fun with @futi.live. @joshonthesound.bsky.social recently used it to compare the Eastern and Western conferences’ style of play.

🎨: @likkitp.ynyaproductions.com

www.sounderatheart.com/2026/02/taki...

Messing around with @futi.live MLS team style data and ASA’s g+, I took a look at the net g+ profiles for the most stylistically extreme teams within each cluster.

Teams were selected based on both style score and “purity” - the gap between their primary and secondary stylistic identities.

Yes, but not for long 👀

Love this plot of @futi.live team styles, stoked to see this stuff in smart club coverage like Sounder at Heart

A YankeeGunner tweet about Myles Lewis-Skelly playing midfield for Arsenal

When I’m looking at @futi.live’s tables:

Putting numbers behind 'Schmetzer Ball' A new tool allows us to clearly identify the Sounders’ playing characteristics.

Putting numbers behind 'Schmetzer Ball'

Had a blast putting this one together for @sounderatheart.com. Once again, shoutout @futi.live for making advanced "style of play" analysis accessible for the public.

You guys asked us for defensive phase of play data, so we added a new for/against toggle to the interactive tables.

Check it out: futi-data.streamlit.app

"Style variety" is an awesome idea.

Go subscribe to Matt Doyle’s new site if you love MLS (and futi phase of play data).

This podcast was our most in-depth conversation yet about what’s coming from futi — and we didn’t even talk about the data visuals.

Check Out futi — American Soccer Analysis Hey folks, our long time friends Mike Imburgio and John Muller are putting out an app. Kieran, Ben, and Harrison spoke to them on the pod here [link] if you want to hear some more of the why, and some...

A brief preview interregnum: we talked to the guys over @futi.live about what they’re building and some of the cool models they’ve got going on over there

www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/2/...

New futi tactical tendency data in ASA previews, we've made it.

Futi basically inventing the “Rosetta Stone of Soccer Solving as a Service” platform is a super cool development

How many ways are there to play football? Introducing team tendencies and team styles

Is your club patient or direct in the buildup? How hard do they counterpress after losing the ball? Do they like chaos or control?

Meet futi's new advanced stats on tactical tendencies and team styles, which let you explore the many ways to play football.

Babe... wake up. @futi.live @johnspacemuller.com dropped team styles and tendencies data.

Seems like an awesome resource for summarizing how teams play: futiapp.substack.com/p/how-many-w...

Just recorded a pod with the guys over @futi.live and boy are we excited.

Thrilled to see futi launching! Here's 4 bunkering outliers in MLS last year, with varying degrees of xG success.

Data from friends old (@americansocceranalysis.com) and new (@futi.live)

This is futi heritage — the first fan analytics post with our free advanced data. Great work, Jake!

Playing around with @futi.live organized possession data.

In 2025 #MLS play, the Sounders ranked #1 in success rate and 8th in progression phases which @johnspacemuller.com defines as possession sequences where teams advance the ball into threatening areas before a shot or box entry.

This is great 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 We’re very fortunate at FIFA to have access to detailed phases of play that are calculated using the tracking we have and I can’t tell you how much value it adds to our analysis so great to see others tackling this too!

Introducing phases of play Context is everything

This is really cool to see, I have actually been working on something similar myself. Trying to reliably identify the phase of play in which the events happen. I am still going to work on it but it will be really cool to see it in the Futi app.

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Introducing phases of play Context is everything

How do you add tactical context to football data?

For futi, it starts with a phase of play model.

I could not be more excited about this.