""But we're playing them up front. He takes loads of good quality shots. There is literally nothing else to say. All other arguments, they're second-order effects compared to this."

Wrote a friction log while using Ramp's product. Really enjoyed the process and will be doing more of these soon. avirn.medium.com/ramp-friction-…

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Did a friction log while using Partiful to plan a party medium.com/@avirn/partifu…

Baseball managers seem to wait for something bad to happen (giving up a few hits in a row) before making a pitching change. Wonder if there’s data showing the change should happen sooner 🤔

I created a Streamlit app to allow you to filter all of the shots taken in the Euros! euro2024shots.streamlit.app Basically built it in like an hour and a half last night haha

Never actually watched an England match and come away impressed. Always less than the sum of their parts. Southgate sets them up so conservatively.

I feel like Messi’s passing is somehow underrated

NEW STORY Yahoo Sports: After crunching NBA Draft data, it’s hard to find a trait that has mattered more than the answer to a simple question: Did your dad play in the NBA? On Bronny James and the NepoBaller phenomenon: sports.yahoo.com/is-bronny-jame…

Creating Progressive Playmaking Values For Passing and Carrying For EURO 2024 (After 2 Games For Each Team In The Group Stage) Write-up on LinkedIn and Medium below ⬇️ #football #soccer #sportsanalytics #datascience #statistics #euro2024

For anyone interested in what goes into the MBAPPE model, I'm going to echo the about section here! MBAPPE (Multi-League Bayesian Adjusted Penalized Plus-Minus Estimate) is a Bayesian RAPM with SPM prior. What is that? Thread Below📝 (1/10)

I tested out Notion's product. Read my friction log here avirn.medium.com/notion-frictio…

Tested out Amazon Music's free version! medium.com/@avirn/amazon-…

You know how with heatmaps we often compare values to the league avg to better highlight unique patterns? Recently I was working on new data viz tools & got the idea to try it for pass nets too. Still needs work but some cool results already - check out De Zerbi's before & after:

Are longer possessions better at generating xG? 🤔 When looking at all possessions, whether they include a shot or not, longer possessions usually lead to more xG But when looking only at possessions that have shots, xG per poss. tops out at ~ 10-19 passes before decreasing