Ryan O'Hanlon
@rwohan
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Writer, ESPN; author, NET GAINS: INSIDE THE BEAUTIFUL GAME’S ANALYTICS REVOLUTION (out now, link below)
Los Angeles
Joined July 2009
My book, NET GAINS, is out today! It's about why the "data revolution" in the world's most popular game trails far behind sports like basketball and baseball, how that's changing, and how far it might all eventually go. Buy it wherever you buy your books:
abramsbooks.com
An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding around the world in the beautiful game from ESPN staff writer and Infinite Football podcast host Ryan...
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Our SUF4 condensation paper is finally out! https://t.co/aBzV1wu2tl Thank you to everyone who has scientifically, mentally, and emotionally supported my co-authors and me over the years. Below is a summary of the work-- we hope you enjoy our findings!
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Meyer et al. present evidence that protein liquid-liquid phase separation may serve as a physical mechanism for coordinating plant development and flowering time with environmental seasonality.
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Asking for a friend: where in Lisbon would be a good spot to watch the Benfica and Sporting games today?
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I'm not checking this site too much anymore, but I've started to put links to everything I write in this Google doc. If you're into that kind of thing:
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Ryan O’Hanlon, ESPN Archive: 2025 There’s no great way to see everything I’ve written (or said (publicly)) over the past few weeks, let alone the whole year. So, I’ve decided to copy my buddy Bill...
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I don't know if links still work here or whatever, but my book, NET GAINS, is currently 50% off if you buy it from my publisher. Get if for someone you love, someone you hate, or even someone toward whom you harbor no feelings, good or ill!
abramsbooks.com
An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding around the world in the beautiful game from ESPN staff writer and Infinite Football podcast host Ryan...
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Issue #2 of my newsletter, Good Moves — a newsletter about chess and what it can teach us about performance in other things, too! — is now out. Inside: how do we decide what to do when we don't know what to do? And will I lose to another child? Find out!
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I can't believe a predictive model is a little skeptical of a team that's won two games this season without scoring a touchdown.
Steelers are on a run of luckier results since Russell Wilson took over as starter. Three of the four wins were losses if you go by my adjusted scores
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Really impressive five-minute stretch from NBC's broadcast team: bemoaned United letting Scott McTominay go, made fun of a model that said Chelsea's chances of finishing top four changed after the team played soccer games, and dismissed xG as more complicated than nuclear fusion?
Soccer commentary and stats are about 15 years behind where baseball is now.
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Probably has something to do with the guy who stole the Ballon d'Or from Vinicius Jr. and Dani Carvajal.
@rwohan How did "start 4 CBs to prevent counters" City turn into late-Klopp-era LFC?
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Baffled by my TV's characterization of the Liverpool-Arsenal game as one-sided. Even on shots. One side has two more touches in the penalty area. The other has slightly more final-third possession.
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And as stated before, I'd be quite open to working within a club or consultancy when it comes to scouting for recruitment in football. I'd like to think that I'd be an asset given my portfolio of written/video work in the public sphere since the mid 2010s
Hi, Never really done this before, but I'd like to put it out there that I'm open to working in any capacity for a club or consultancy in terms of recruitment. I've been doing public player analysis for 8-ish years (both present and historical), including now on YouTube
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Lamine Yamal scoring at the Bernabeu and then *showing off his braces* to the crowd might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen happen on a soccer field.
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El Clasico is a great reminder that everything in soccer — beating a high line, playing a high line, scoring a 1v1, finishing a tap in — is harder than it looks.
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The late run from the CM is the cheat-code to break the high line. Teams almost never adjust because you would never normally build up like that, but it was so easy for RM to get Bellingham free just now.
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Real Madrid signed Kylian Mbappe over the summer. Also: they don’t even have the best attack in their own country. I wrote about the Big Game:
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On paper Real Madrid have more star power, but Barcelona have been far more convincing this season.
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It seems like something good happens pretty much every time a midfielder makes a late run into the box. See: Jones, Curtis.
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USMNT captain Christian Pulisic has been one of the best offensive players in the world for AC Milan. But can he keep it up?
7 - Christian Pulisic is the first player to record a goal contribution in seven consecutive league matches in the top 5 European leagues this season. Tear.
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POCH OUT?!?!? BERHALTER IN?!?!?!? I wrote about what we can learn from the USMNT’s underwhelming start to the Mauricio Pochettino era:
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The USMNT struggled to press, gave up chances and didn't create shots vs. Mexico. What can we read into Mauricio Pochettino's two games?
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