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    Global Football Odds & Ends

    This is certainly a take. I'd argue Carvajal is not close to being one of the 4 best players on his own team, nevermind in the world. He is not in the mold of any of those fullbacks you mentioned, he's a solid glue-guy player on a great team. What does he do that makes him great? This isn't a...
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    Liverpool 24-25: Going Dutch

    They are massively underwater with the profit and sustainability rules, they need to get out of the red or they'll be facing points deductions. Selling academy players is 100% profit for accounting purposes, selling players previously bought is mostly canceling out the amortization of the...
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    2024 Bruins Off Season News - Everyone Else But the Center

    I agree, I think McAvoy is one of the best defensemen in the league. I’d still trade him for one of the best centers in the league, especially if the contract was reasonable. If we already had Leon, everyone would be laughing at the idea of trading him for McAvoy
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    2024 Bruins Off Season News - Everyone Else But the Center

    This team had 109 points and the only impact player they need to replace is Jake DeBrusk, with 21 mil in cap space. Maybe I have a different definition than everyone else, but I think they're already contenders unless they give all 21 million to Zac Rinaldo. I'm assuming Edmonton's asking price...
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    2024 UEFA Men’s European Championship

    Trippier too. With Rice holding on the left side, Trippier can be making attacking runs too. It's not just Kane that would be helped by the whole left side not working. Trent is the best passer on the team and will kill other teams with long diagonals if they are there.
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    The Search for a number 1 center

    I really don't think DeBrusk's reputation for being inconsistent is fair, especially over the past couple years. Most of his value is in his goal scoring and two way play, and he isn't on the first power play unit. He's improved over his career but he's not a great playmaker. Give that, he's not...
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    Round 2 Bruins-Panthers

    Not if your name is Sam Bennett
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    Game 1 - The Payback

    I think it's officially time for a new avatar
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    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    The intensity that Toronto played with in the first isn't sustainable. Sometimes you just need to weather the storm. I remember in 2013 vs the Penguins, almost every game the Penguins came out flying and looked like the clear better team in the first 10-20 minutes. Bruins easily swept them. I'm...
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    23-24 Bruins Season Thread

    Everyone is talking about Hanifin like he's a #1 defenseman while most of the publicly available advanced data seems to disagree pretty strongly. It suggests he's carried a fair amount by Tanev. Ignoring what we'd have to give up in assets, I don't think I'd want to give him a 7 year deal unless...
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    Spurs 23/24: I'm Loving Big Ange Instead

    Given his skill profile, you would think he's much better suited to playing on a counter attacking team than in a possession dominant system like Ange's. It's an enormous reach of a signing. He's fast and that's it. Terrible passer, not a great dribbler, doesn't get shots. Players don't usually...
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    Spurs 23/24: I'm Loving Big Ange Instead

    Brennan Johnson is terrible. What are they doing?
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    Spurs 23/24: I'm Loving Big Ange Instead

    I think it makes sense as a stopgap if they've identified players to acquire next summer. The transfer market is silly this year with all the blood money the Saudis are throwing around, waiting it out is likely a good long-term move. Especially if the alternative is spending half of the Kane...
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    Life is a Beach - Summer 2023 Transfer

    Correct on Wahi, I want absolutely no part of him. I don't think a similar striker is what they need to replace Kane. It's basically him, Benzema, and Lukaku that fit that bill. Kane would be great in this system because he is great, but he isn't a great fit per se. Rolling with Son and Richy...
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    Bruins Offseason

    It depends on what you're trying to answer/predict, but I think both are valuable data points. For example, if you look at shot attempts, xg, and actual goals scored, each of them is a better predictor of future goals at different size sample data sets (at least at one point they used to be, I...
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    Bruins Offseason

    Other than being really short, they are not similar players at all.
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    La Liga 2022/23 All Out of Palancas

    Are you referring to Busquets? Busquets has always had incredible passing statistics. Even old washed up Busquets right now has significantly better passing numbers than Zubimendi, across the board. His defensive numbers are still better too. I wasn't trying to put down Zubimendi, there are...
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    La Liga 2022/23 All Out of Palancas

    Very interesting player. For all the hype, there's really nothing in his numbers that suggest he's the next great anything.
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    Messi to MLS!

    Messi is not very good, he's arguably still the best player in the world. Beckham was never close to that level.
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    May NHL News Thread

    From what I understand, the proposal was basically completely privately funded. Voters just didn't want it. The area is currently a landfill that is poisoning the local water and would have been cleaned up as part of this project. That might be the funniest part of all of this, locals preferring...
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