Theodore
on Sport
Sports questions, public data, and what the numbers will actually support.
Minseo Theodore Kim — I take the things people say about sport and check them against public data. Mostly football, occasionally elsewhere. Every piece names the data it used and the point at which its own conclusion stops holding.
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12 Oct 2026
The gap that shrank
The conversion rate difference between clubs narrowed across the ten seasons, and by 2025-26 it had fallen to a level indistinguishable from chance.
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10 Oct 2026
The one season that moved
The extra shots in 2023-24 came from the clubs already in the league, and the higher scoring rate came from the clubs that had been converting worst.
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08 Oct 2026
Fewer long shots, same goals
Shot volume and shot yield are both where they were ten seasons ago, which makes the usual explanation for the decline in long-range shooting harder to accept.