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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 21/09/2026

You eyeballs are wrong, only because Messi, and a lesser extent, Evander, exist. This is total Points-xPoints since 2023.

Charlotte are the 3rd luckiest team since 2023

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 21/09/2026

Five months later, Vancouver and SKC are in the running as the best and worst teams by xPoints since 2013. Nashville are likely going to win the Supporter's Shield like most teams over the last few years - by over-performing their underlying metrics. Montreal has had rotten luck.

Scatter plot of xPoints on x-axis and Points-xPoints on the y axis. Nashville is really lucky, Montreal really unlucky, and SKC and Vancouver are really bad and good.

Faceted scatter plots of xPoints on x-axis and Points-xPoints of the y-axis. 2024 Miami is the luckiest, but Nashville this season isn't far behind

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 07/09/2026

We took in a mother cat and her four kittens. We have homes for the mom and two of the kittens but need a forever home for the other two, preferably together. If you are or someone you know are in Nashville or vicinity and want a couple of sweet, cute, litter trained kittens please DM me.

Two adverts or kittens that need a forever
home.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 27/08/2026

The positioning of the players on both teams is wild. Also, 2-1 after 12 min, this game is a banger.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 17/08/2026

Feeling really good about that first prompt.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 03/07/2026

Curtis Silwa is asking the right questions.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 02/07/2026

I thought this was Romney, but it was McCain!

tire gage with "Obama's Energy Plan" written on it

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 30/06/2026

Update: a false lice alarm at D&D camp.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 30/06/2026

Plenty of spells for my Tiefling Wizard son to choose from to banish the lice:

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 30/06/2026

Lice reported at your kid's D&D camp is not something I expected to ever hear.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 22/06/2026

I've had this one since '94.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 22/06/2026

I wrote about this a couple years ago, but we're really confident Messi is just about an average penalty taker. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2023/10...

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 21/06/2026

Columbus Crew brand ambassador.

Frankie Hejduk on top of a truck with a beer

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 15/06/2026

Of course they show it immediately after I posted this.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 04/06/2026

Seems that being anti-data center is mainstream. I just got an email from the Nashville Zoo to oppose one proposed for land adjacent to it.

Nashville Zoo Says NO to Proposed Data Center
As a Nashville Zoo member, you play an important role in helping us protect the animals and habitats in our care.

A proposed 69,000-square-foot data center is planned for property directly adjacent to the Zoo. While developers claim the facility will have no impact, no environmental studies or impact assessments have been conducted to evaluate potential effects on our animals, visitors, staff, or the surrounding community.

Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water; straining power grids, depleting natural resources, and damaging our watershed. With nothing more than the word of a profit-seeking developer, how are we to know this new data center will not lead to irreversible damage to the animals we exist to protect?

We cannot afford to find out years from now how this facility has negatively impacted our 1.4 million visitors, our local community, or the 3,000 animals entrusting us with their care. We are calling on the Nashville community to join us in our fight to stop this data center from being built, now.

Please sign our petition and say yes to the Zoo by saying no to the new data center. Express your concern and help us protect our vulnerable animals and the environment we call home.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 04/06/2026

I'm ready to shut down all vibe coded remembering some guys sites after this BS.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 04/06/2026

I don't want to know how 7-0 works. I want to be irrationally angry at free game for a group of 16 knockout of a team with prime Pele and Maradona leading the line and where Maradona couldn't even score a single goal.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 06/05/2026

I don't know exactly why this single seat offer was a thing, but I paid $7.52 after fees to go to the last Nashville SC game. Can't beat $1.25/goal.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 05/05/2026

It's been done a couple of times. Not surprisingly, people can't tell differences if gender/race are obscured.

PACE AND POWER: REMOVING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS FROM
SOCCER BROADCASTS
Gregory, Sam†
(1, 2); Pleuler, Devin (3), Daly-Grafstein, Daniel (4), Liu, Yang (5), Marchwica,
Paul (5)
(1) Victoria University, Melbourne, AUS; (2) Inter Miami CF, Miami, FL; (3) Toronto FC,
Toronto, CAN; (4) University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CAN (3), Sportlogiq, Montreal,
CAN (5)
† E-mail: gregoryd.sam@gmail.com
This research challenges common stereotypes in professional soccer based on race and gender by
employing computer vision based match recreations. Using player location and body pose information we recreate match broadcasts with player skeletons so that the viewer can analyze a match
without any visual information about the players’ race or gender. We ask a series of questions
about a video segment involving teams of different racial backgrounds and video segments from a
men’s game and a women’s game. We use the broadcast recreations as a control group and show
a second group the original broadcasts. We find that when viewers are able to identify player race
they are much more likely to attribute athletic or physical characteristics to black players. We also
find evidence that when viewers can tell they are watching a women’s game they may identify it as
of a lower quality than when they are watching the recreation.

Whether one looks at revenue, investment or coverage, men’s sports do better than women’s. Many assume that absolute differences in quality of athletic performance are the driving force. However, the existence of stereotypes should alert us to another possibility: gender information might influence perceived quality. We perform an experiment in which 613 participants viewed clips of elite female and male soccer players. In the control group, participants evaluated unmodified videos where the gender of the players is clear to see. In the treatment group, participants evaluated the same videos but with gender obscured by blurring. Using a regression analysis, we find that participants rate men’s videos higher – but only when they know they are watching men. When blurring obscures the gender, ratings for female and male athletes do not differ. We discuss implications for research and the sports industry.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 20/04/2026

With most teams having played 8 games, the underlying stats are beginning to become useful while still noisy. Vancouver may be the best MLS team ever and SKC the worst. Both are performing as expected. There's a huge pack of average teams down on their luck.

Good lucky scatter plot for MLS 2026; SKC is atrocious, Vancouver is incredible

good-lucky catter plot of all MLS teams since 2013

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 29/03/2026

My son’s final game of a soccer tournament this morning was cancelled this morning because of increasing ICE activity in Nashville. I cannot wait for all the people that caused this to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

ICE caused a u-12 soccer game to be cancelled because families were justifiably afraid of the secret police

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 27/03/2026

It's great to see the Art Modell Law potentially going national. FWIW when he was an Austin city council member, Casar voted to provide public land to Anthony Precourt so he could move the Columbus Crew to Austin. I'm glad he learned a lesson from that.

Screenshot showing Greg Casar voted to allow the Columbus Crew move to Austin. via https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/08/15/300244/austin-city-council-votes-to-move-forward-with-major-league-soccer-stadium/

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 24/03/2026

Maybe they do something different in Madrid, but usually you have a coil that goes around a specific body part to get higher quality images of that part of the body. So they likely would have put the wrong knee in the coil.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 09/03/2026

Looks like about 2015/16 for the peak and downhill since.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 09/03/2026

Looks like down a bit in recent seasons.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 09/03/2026

So that insane home advantage didn't survive week 3 of the 2026 MLS season (46th percentile now).

rolling points per game shows home advantage is back to normal in 2026

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 05/03/2026

Adding in all MLS games, 2026 has the highest home advantage to start a season - just edging out 1997 and 2000.

Rolling 30 game home advantage for MLS all time

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 05/03/2026

I pulled some data via @americansocceranalysis.com's {itscalledsoccer} and while home advantage has never started out so high in an MLS season since 2013, it is not quite the highest ever (only 98.41 percentile). I suspect this is an aberration and it will bounce around just like it always has.

Rolling 30 game home advantage showing that the 2026 season is an outlier to begin a season.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 19/02/2026

While there could be a few more changes, this incorporates all the recent moves (Salloi, RBW, Dorsey, Carmona, Elie). This season has the highest roster turnover since I started tracking this prior to the 2019 season, but there are no statistically significant differences in any of the seasons.

Bar plot of returning minutes for the MLS 2016 season

Dot plots of returning minutes over time. No significant differences are seen.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 18/02/2026

I saw this truck in Nashville in June 2020. Based on that, I assumed that Beshear must have been doing a good job with Covid.

Truck with a "Fuck Andy Beshear" decal on the back window

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 17/02/2026

Still haven't found a use for this, but it is a great template.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 12/02/2026

The British mind cannot comprehend.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 09/02/2026

That said, I also love the neighbors of the American Soccer Community.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 30/01/2026

Now updated for some errors and recent moves. Orlando with a big drop with Alex Freeman and Luis Muriel departing. Seattle at the top after I corrected for the re-signing of Stefan Frei.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 26/01/2026

Good catch - I had him not retuning when his contract expired and didn't update after he returned.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 26/01/2026

I still need to update this for last season, but there isn't really a correlation between returning minutes and any real or expected results.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 26/01/2026

With less than a month until the 2026 MLS season starts, rosters are getting finalized. Chicago, Austin, Columbus, and LAFC are largely running things back. Toronto FC finally decided to rebuild after years of bad results, returning fewer than 50% of minutes from 2025.

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