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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 29/09/2026

You can't tell me the kids don't love this: bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 25/09/2026

Haslams own the Crew and Browns. Not a terrible commute for a Sunday.

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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 · 10/09/2026

Our house has both. With the recirc pump on it made the water heater run 24/7. So I put a smart plug on the recirc pump and a motion detector in the primary bathroom that turns the pump on for 5 mins. Solved the problem and would probably be better even without a HPWH.

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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 · 03/09/2026

Don't forget the brick wall for the good ones, too.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 31/08/2026

We still do the "all done" sign with our 5 and 10 year olds and probably always will.

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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 · 24/08/2026

He has a couple of very short substitution appearances in Open and Leagues cup. As far as I know he is not on a first team contract.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 24/08/2026

But Gbamble is already on a really bad team!

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

Puts more context to his "it's just locker room talk" comment after the Access Hollywood tape came out

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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 · 17/08/2026

[Whitest boy name you can imagine] [bird] transfers from [US state capital] [military noun] to [soccer team nickname] in [UK constituent country].

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 11/08/2026

But also people need to know thst there still needs to be some sort of utilization management. Currently insurance companies get the fire, rightly and wrongly, for denying unnecessary medical procedures, but somebody has to do it because there are a ton of unnecessary medical procedures out there.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 04/08/2026

I’ve been beta testing this for like 2 weeks and you beat my best points in 15 minutes.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 29/07/2026

RETVRN to partial allocation for player trades

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

lawd almighty this deserved a goal

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 22/07/2026

He plays Dionysus in the Disney+ Percy Jackson series.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 20/07/2026

The key thing is including stoppage time, not just lopping it off. The normalization after that doesn't make too much of a difference.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 12/07/2026

No, the team with 11 has to choose a player to not participate.

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Jib-BOO👻- scribbits @jibblescribbits.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Well, well, well. Not so easy to find a center back who doesn't get dunked on by Ketelaere, is it?"

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 10/07/2026

Have you seen Cool Runnings?

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 10/07/2026

Living and walking near a university and hospital I get asked decently often. But it is never anyone less than 50.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 08/07/2026

I've been surprised on how not terrible riding the ebike has been in super hot weather as long as I'm moving. Exerting minimal effort pedaling with the breeze it generates isn't exactly comfortable, but it is very tolerable.

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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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Max @oostermax.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Which Matt defends the net for a US-Belgium penalty shootout? The US has rotated both, but my model backs Matt Turner. Data gives him a 77% probability of being the superior career penalty stopper (other pk statistics below) #USABEL #BELUSA #FIFAWorldCup #WC2026 #WorldCup

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 04/07/2026

What would you give up for a winner?

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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 · 02/07/2026

Remember when Obama was dumb for encouraging people to make sure their car tires were inflated to get better gas mileage?

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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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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 28/06/2026

Okay here's the entire Algeria possession 5 minutes and 34 seconds of completely uncontested midfield possession 109 completed passes And then they scored a goal

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 25/06/2026

Only if you want to value long clearances and slide tackles more than just about anything else.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 25/06/2026

We've been generating these plots for all American professional leagues as well as major tournaments for almost a decade at @gameflow.bsky.social . They are not new.

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 25/06/2026

I may quibble with the use of "momentum" but the utility of these sorts of plots is pretty obvious because people of see what they want in games and you can't watch them all. We wrote about this years ago and have updated them to actual likelihoods of scoring with g+. tinyurl.com/3p5hm8b9

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Expected Possession Goals GameFlow: Taking a Ride Into the Danger Zone — American Soccer Analysis

A few weeks ago, we introduced Expected Possession Goals (xPG) GameFlow , a visualization of the momentum of a soccer match from kickoff to final whistle of each game. xPG GameFlow uses the accumul...

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Eliot McKinley @eliotmckinley.com · 25/06/2026

I think the first or second summer after buying our house the AC stopped working. A $200 spray down on the condenser coils with the hose from the HVAC guy fixed the issue and I learned a valuable lesson.

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

Mostly lore, IIRC he never lost a shootout. Nick Rimando, #6 on your list talked about his approach to saving penalties a few years back. www.nytimes.com/athletic/225...

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MLS legend Nick Rimando reveals his penalty-stopping secret (Published 2020)

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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

Really cool and thorough penalty analysis to show that Tim Melia is the GOAT penalty keeper.

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