Context or Alibi? Placing Injury Notes in a Match Report
A placement rule for injury context in a match report: where it belongs, where it turns into an alibi, and three sentences rewritten to show the gap.
Author: Danielle Ortiz
Danielle Ortiz covers the numbers behind a result and what they can honestly support. She writes about box scores, shot maps and tracking data, and about the distance between a statistic and the story it gets used to tell. Her recurring subject is the analysis that falls apart on a second reading.
Golf, Motorsport and Combat Break the Chronological Recap
A chronological recap fails golf, motorsport and combat sports. The leaderboard swing, the strategy window and the round-by-round card work instead.
A Shot Count and a Shot Map Support Different Claims
A raw shot count and a shot map from the same match support different claims. Here is what each can honestly carry, and the presentation traps to avoid.
Where the Story Sits Once a Scoreline Stops Mattering
Four angles that hold up when you report a one-sided game, the two that always read as padding, and which match numbers stop meaning anything.
What a Change on the Hour Actually Tells You
Four substitution patterns read as evidence: the scheduled hour change, the reactive swap, the double change and the message, and what each one can support.
Read a Second-Half Adjustment in the First Six Minutes
A six-minute routine for spotting second half tactical adjustments from any seat: pressing trigger, line height, one player and final-third entry points.
Find the At-Bat That Actually Decided the Game
How leverage index locates the at-bat that actually decided a postseason game, and how to read a win probability chart without reading it backwards.
One-Game Plus-Minus Deceives Almost Everyone Who Quotes It
Why plus-minus in basketball falls apart over one game, what lineup context and garbage time do to it, and the order to read a box score in instead.
Possession Share Tells You Almost Nothing About Control
Why possession share fails as a measure of control, what field tilt counts instead, how it is calculated, and the two match types that break both.
Five Numbers Worth Quoting in a Recap, Four That Mislead
The football match statistics that matter in a recap, the four that quietly mislead, and the concrete failure case that settles each argument.