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If you want substantive critique, my substantive critique is that eigenvector centrality is somewhere between irrelevant and misleading in extremely small, fully connected networks like passing graphs and is probably highly correlated to just the number of passes a player made

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That's not me having a go at you. Me having a go at you would be asking what university are you a professor at, so that I know which one to swerve for my kids education, because arrogance and ignorance is not a good combination for an educator.

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I should start a substack. You can apparently get a decent following there calling yourself an analyst despite not understanding why p90 metrics are useful to analyse player performance

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 11/11/2025

He has the second highest number of touches p90 in attacking third on Spurs. I don't think "rarely sees the ball" is supported by evidence. What is true is that he simply can't do anything when he has the ball because he's extremely light weight and gets easily muscled off it

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One day, behavioural science will be advanced enough to explain how Morgan Rogers is considered by so many to be one of the best players in the league despite having a literal flaming pile of dog poop for statistical profile

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 10/11/2025

This is a very dumb stat but guess which player in the premier league has the highest take on success rate with at least 7 attempted?

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 10/11/2025

Fun stat to highlight both how good he's been and also the absolutely dire state of striker quality in the Premier League: Enzo Fernandez is currently 4th in the league in total NPxG (3.8). Not 4th amongst midfielders, 4th overall.

Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 09/11/2025

Garnacho against Wolves yesterday. Led the team in xA (1.26) and successful deliveries into penalty area (10) and provided relentless passing threat into dangerous areas.

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The Chelsea Podcast @chelseapodcast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

NEW EPISODE! A bit later in the week than usual... but we got to talk about three games with the excellent @dmitry.mclachbot.com and ponder on the issue of our revolving centre backs. #CFC #ChelseaFC #TheChelseaPodcast #KTBFFH open.spotify.com/episode/60HF...

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The Mixed Bag Episode

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 03/11/2025

Anyway, here's a Claude AI generated list of all the players Chelsea have signed from Bundesliga since 2000, and I'll let you be the judge on how many of these actually turned out to be worth it.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 03/11/2025

Over the weekend someone pointed out to me that both Xavi Simons and Florian Wirtz have been found out as physically unusable in the premier league and I don't think it's exactly right. Wirtz actually had decent underlying numbers - he's xG+xA p90 is 0.44.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 31/10/2025

I don't really know what we're to do with the fact that Aaron Anselmino appears to both be very good and also literally made our of papier mache

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 30/10/2025

I don't even have a picture for Panichelli in my database yet but the guy is putting up ridiculous numbers. Strasbourg aren't going to miss Emegha at all when he moves to Chelsea.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 30/10/2025

Tosin yesterday lost 3 out of 4 aerial duels in or near our penalty box yesterday, which is just brutal considering that being a tall guy who wins headers is his entire raison d'etre (Red triangle - aerial duel lost, green triangle - aerial duel won)

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 31/08/2025

I cannot wait to see what kind of dumb shit this club tries to do tomorrow!

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 08/08/2025

Ok, this is the nerdiest thing I'll ever admit here, but I tried asking ChatGPT to run a D&D campaign for me acting as a DM... And it's pretty good?

Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 05/08/2025

If Manchester United do end up buying Sesko for £80m, they will have spent £210m on three attackers that outperformed their xG last season by a combined 16.5 goals. Zero red flags, no notes, would buy again.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 05/08/2025

This thread is absolutely fucking sending me

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 04/08/2025

Is there some other West End I'm not familiar with? Because the one I know, you can't turn without bumping into a huge group of tourists at 9 pm and much later.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 04/08/2025

Garnacho fan club assemble

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 03/08/2025

My only take on the Sidney Sweeney "controversy" is that every time I see a photo of her, I am totally creeped out by her dead, soulless eyes.

Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 30/07/2025

Quantico Quaresma crying at home that he missed out on this.

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Kieran Doyle @kierdoyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Jorrel Hato pod is out. TL;DW/L good prospect for the role targeted, appropriately priced, nice work! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4WMD... Youtube: youtu.be/WLYcKq7jEIs

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Should Chelsea Sign Jorrel Hato?

YouTube video by KierDoyle

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 29/07/2025

"What the fuck is "Willis tower"?" - every Chicagoan everywhere, including those like myself who haven't lived there in a decade

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 27/07/2025

I don't think it makes any sense for us to go for Donnarumma

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 26/07/2025

I usually try to not make very specific predictions but I think Arsenal would be quite lucky to get 15 league goals out of Gyokeres this season.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 24/07/2025

Yep, bypassing the local id restrictions really is as simple as a VPN. Completely worthwhile and utterly meaningful lawmaking in action.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 24/07/2025

Way too much SZA not enough Kendrick, btw.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 23/07/2025

Guess which despicable location the Mclachbot family is at

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 23/07/2025

I've been using Claude 4 for a little while now, and while its much more capable of producing *working* code than previous model, holy shit does it absolutely love to overcode.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 22/07/2025

I'm against culture wars in all their iterations, except on this particular issue. I'll wrap myself in the flag and go to war against Tea Microwavers.

Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 18/07/2025

A strategy so nice, they did it twice!

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 15/07/2025

Malo Gusto 2023 vs 2024 Obviously, you can see him attempting a lot more passes from central positions this season. But he does not try many progressive/line breaking passes from these central positions. As a result, his passing metrics have been worse than last season.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 15/07/2025

What a bad day for me to accidentally leave my headphones at home.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 14/07/2025

Look, guys, it should be pretty obvious at this point that unless someone stops me, I'm just going to keep making stupid bluesky novelty bots.

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Dmitry @dmitry.mclachbot.com · 14/07/2025

My wife was exposed to the Cole Palmer Interview content for the first time last night and safe to say she's a fan

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Reece James is so cooked right now

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What in God's good name is this hideous rebrand?

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Liam Delap has averaged 1.3 shots and .3 xG p90 in Club World Cup. He had 0 shots in the Benfica and Palmeiras games. Not sure what these guys are looking at.

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