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Bloody Mat Conner

@matconner.bsky.social
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Bad pun enthusiast. Mediocre chess player. Big fan of gambling. Tai’shar Manetheren. (@ballfromgrace on Twitter)

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My six year old wants to play soccer. Not because she’s been captivated by the World Cup games, but because she wants to be on the cards like the Bosnian players in their “Take Me To America” video.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Norway manager saw Belgium win taking its two biggest names off and learned the wrong lesson
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
With these red and green kits the team is ready to be Moroccan around the Christmas tree.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Build the whole offense out of free kicks
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Never tweet. That’s the real lesson.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Gotta think that there’s a strong correlation between how bad Belgium have been in this game and the fact that they’re trotting out some of the greatest players in Leicester City history. Does Danny Drinkwater have some Belgian heritage?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Haven’t seen Virgil shut down an attack like that since the Gates of Dis.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
With the Spelling Bee finished, I took a look at what it got right, and what it got wrong. cc @minakimes.bsky.social doomsdata.substack.com/p/spelling-b...
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sure Norway is great, but you should also check out their sister country, Neitherway.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Our soccer team is actually fun
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@iankarmel.bsky.social Ian I love the pod and am a big fan, so please know that I say this with the utmost respect: I cannot abide your Goodnight Moon slander. “It doesn’t even really rhyme” is the sort of literary criticism I would expect from Sean
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Dan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Pope called it soccer, game set match.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@scrippsbee.bsky.social Hello! Is the website going to post the Spelloff results?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Your outie loves the Knicks.”
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Going to become a DJ with a vampire aesthetic called The Disc Count.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
An Arsenal goal from open play? In this economy?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Final three speller pre Bee ranks: Champion: 3 Runner up: 12 Third: 1
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tethyan now rated as the hardest word of the Bee so far #spellingbee @scrippsbee.bsky.social
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
BEELO pre-Bee rank based on the model priors (in order of speller number): 37 4 3 5 1 12 20 22 100 Out of 247 spellers. Not bad for a first run.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fixed an issue with some spellers incorrectly being marked as still active (result of some feed errors earlier on the Bee site). We are now current. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Top 6 pre-Bee spellers are still alive as of the end of Round 7.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Let’s go Sarv
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Scripps National Spelling Bee Semifinals start now! 2:30-6:30 at spellingbee.com 8-10 pm on ION @scrippsbee.bsky.social
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@scrippsbee.bsky.social is someone able to fix the missing words in round 4? Gives the result but not the word attempted spellingbee.com/round-result...
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Site is still running smoothly but being held up by the Bee site, which is still stuck in the middle of round 4. We will have updates once the Bee site refreshes.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@scrippsbee.bsky.social the round results page is a bit behind on updates for round 4
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
After correctly spelling “funori” BEELO now rates Israel at a 1531, with a 0.54% chance of winning.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
cc @minakimes.bsky.social
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Had to rework how the live poller updates but we are now officially live: foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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BEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Site is updated. I’ve cleaned up visuals so they appear readable on laptop/mobile. Also word prior model improved so the round baselines are more robust, giving us much more realistic difficulties for later-round words + kick on effect for speller ELO priors foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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BEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ask and you shall receive @minakimes.bsky.social. Still working on cleaning up some of the visual elements and toying with the word model, so things may change between now and the Bee, but this is the general structure for BEELO. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/
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BEElo RatingsBEElo Ratings — 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“You’d have to be a real sicko to make power ratings out of Spelling Bee data.” Me:
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Sick Orangutan with Oxygen Mask
ALT: Sick Orangutan with Oxygen Mask
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Love listening to a sports writer talk about how much Wemby loves to read well-known fantasy author Brian Sanderson.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
How do you say remontada in Norwegian?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Igor might have the shortest Tudor reign since Lady Jane Grey.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Malen just so good at getting into the spaces between/behind defenders
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
1-1 feels like the spiritually correct score for Parma-Cagliari
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Note to self: leg day and fencing day should never overlap
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Also working on building this out for most of the other European leagues. Hoping to eventually use those for cross league comparison, aging curves, comparison for transfer values, etc
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Put together some basketball-style on-off ratings for xG and expected threat (xT) for Serie A. Not huge correlation for players with minimal minutes, but looks a little better when you set the cutoff using FB Ref’s qualifying thresholds (30 mins per match)
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Scooter Magruder @scootermagruder.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS THE BEST COUNTRY TO EVER EXIST IN THE SPORT OF HOCKEY.
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Nate Gilman @nrgilman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I wrote about the Fire and have some pretty big questions about how they're going to fill a Brian Gutiérrez-sized hole in the team.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Check out my hovercraft taxi service sometime. We work tirelessly to get you home safely.
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Matthew De George @sportsdoctormd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Second straight Super Bowl in which a dude named Drake has been mercilessly bullied
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Would agree with everything in here. The @americansoccerinsights.com summit was a great experience all around.
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
10/10 recipe. I know a recipe is a winner when both kids ask for seconds.
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Expected Own Goals @xowngoals.com · 06/02/2026
We had so much fun at the @americansoccerinsights.com Summit last year, we had to come back for another live pod! We were joined by @catabush.com and Houston Dash analyst Chloe Dhillon for a great talk about the state of data in the women's game, for the public and for teams. Enjoy!
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xOG Live in Houston 2026, with Catalina Bush & Chloe Dhillon!
YouTube video by Expected Own Goals
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@iankarmel.bsky.social I have a question for the AFE crew: If you were in the Olympics, would you rather walk in with a huge team like the US, or a team that only has like 2 people?
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Happy Ratboys day to all who celebrate
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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@therealhrdlicka.bsky.social looking for food recs for Vegas. Got anything? Most of the recs I’ve gotten so far have been Asian food so if you have any other cuisines I’ll gladly take them
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