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What an innings from Harry Brook!
Looked in control, accelerated and stabilized the innings after early loss of wickets. Clutch!
Been a long time since Iโve worked on some #dataviz for the site. A small scrolly for a piece by @alitweedale.bsky.social ๐ฉ๏ธ
What a final! The only negative was that winning delivery not being a hit wicket
The mighty Sunderland up to 34th globally in the Opta Power Rankings! Their highest position since the rankings began in 2010 (lowest was 1072nd after relegation to League One).
Adil Rashid has taken at least 1 wicket in his last 35 matches (when he's actually bowled) for England in white ball cricket (17 T20's, 18 ODI's).
In total thats 64 wickets at 21.37.
The Premier League isn't ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ certain of a fifth #UCL spot next season, but it's getting pretty likely.
In 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season by the Opta supercomputer, the Premier League earned a bonus ticket ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐.
Bring back the positive Netherlands coefficient posts please ๐
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands is going to drop to 7th, losing a Champions League ticket to ๐ต๐น Portugal.
While technically they are still ahead, League Stage bonus points will change this.
๐ณ๐ฑ will likely see 5/6 (!) teams eliminated in the group stage,
๐ต๐น instead, will see 4/4 teams qualify.
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.
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Heck of an innings from Harry Brook...crazy acceleration. Goes from 46(39) to then take 90 runs from his next 27 balls faced!
The first 100 in the Women's Premier League comes from Nat Sciver-Brunt off just 57 deliveries. The top scoring shot being the straight drive as it always should!
#WPL2026
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Just 6861 positions between Crystal Palace and Macclesfield in the Opta Power Rankings
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Sunderland's survival blueprint is working well.
But they will lose twice as many players to the Africa Cup of Nations as any other Premier League team.
It promises to test Rรฉgis Le Bris.
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๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐: Pre-Draw Predictions ๐
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 draw on Friday 5 December, the Opta supercomputer has produced its early predictions for this summerโs tournament in North America.
Here are the results.
I do think defining a single league strength value to order is tricky, and probably needs breaking down into various metrics
E.g. English Champ is ranked 6th by "average" rating which is probably too high. That's more due to the depth of the league as it drops to 13th using top 5 team quality (2/2)
We now have 155 women's and 411 men's leagues ranked on @optaanalyst.optajoe.com! You can choose from 3 simple aggregations of the team-level Opta Power Rankings to order the leagues... (1/2)
After beating Chelsea at the weekend, the mighty Sunderland are back inside the top 50 of the Opta Power Rankings. It's their first time inside the top 50 since 1st February 2011 before they lost 4-2 at home, also to Chelsea...
Champions League update!
๐น Arsenal still on top! PSG joins the fight for first after an away win at Barca.
๐น Qarabaฤ with 2 wins! Now 75% likely to make the next round.
๐ธ Both Dutch teams in bottom 6 teams โ heading towards elimination.
๐ธ Athletic Club with 2 losses heading towards an early exit.
Interesting insights from the Opta Supercomputer himself
Great to see the WSL added to @optaanalyst.optajoe.com, with detailed stats alongside fixture and season level predictions.
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Szoboszlai's high workrate against Arsenal was highlighted on MoTD www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...
For this 23 second interval, we labelled 2 off-ball runs with our new Playing Styles framework
A 82.3m cross option run (max speed 34.48 kph) and a 76.8m tracking back to position run (max 30.96 kph)
A deep dive into the Donnarumma vs Ederson debate, how much worse GD's passing really is, and what it all means for the role of Premier League goalkeepers.
Pep has revolutionised the role once, but is he following a trend this time around?
theanalyst.com/articles/gia...
New year, new coefficients simulation!
โ ๏ธThis year is the first time I've seen where the Big 4 might actually be challenged, as ๐ซ๐ท France _could_ overtake ๐ฉ๐ช Germany.
Being Top 4 gives you 4 direct UCL spots, which are now at risk for Germany, after some poor seasons in Europe.
Finally, here's our Conference League predictions.
Again an English team favourites to win the League Stage โ just like Chelsea was last year.
Top 24 achievable for all, even lowest rated teams Shelbourne/Aberdeen with a ยฑ20% chance!
In the Europa League, English teams are once again favoured to make an impression.
Here's how we estimate each teams' likelihood of Top 8 and Top 24 in the League Stage.
A new #ChampionsLeague season is upon us! Here's each team's likelihood of qualifying for Top 8 or 24, according to our predictions: