Independent sports analytics — NFL, NBA, Soccer, College Football, WNBA
D. Reyes is the SportsHighLight soccer correspondent. They cover club football across Europe, the Americas, and the international windows, with a working appetite for xG, expected threat (xT), packing, PPDA, and tactical reads. Favors pass network maps and pressing structure over transfer-rumor churn.
Cricket analytics inside franchise departments is sophisticated. Public coverage is still in the 1970s. Why the gap exists and what cricket-curious readers should look...
Expected Goals (xG) entered mainstream soccer coverage about a decade ago and changed how serious analysts read matches. Expected Possession…
A streak can be a revelation. It can also be four tired opponents, two backup centers, and a calendar with a sense of humor.
In 2007, John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Rating sat at the top of nearly every NBA conversation that pretended to be…
Survivorship bias, how it warps every sports retrospective, where it shows up in the data, and how to write around it without falling into...
How a single game becomes a trend, how the trend hardens into a narrative, how the narrative survives even after the underlying performance falls...
A seven-step editorial workflow for turning a single game into a piece of writing that holds up: pick a real question, pull three layers...
A working guide to reading team trends without falling for the streak. Sample size, schedule strength, injury fog, rotation experiments, regression to the mean...
I spent most of a Tuesday in March in three different sports-media tabs. One was a long-form analytics piece at…
The anatomy of a sports Twitter take cycle — its six identifiable stages, the timing of each, the incentives driving the engine, and how...
