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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 · 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 · 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

@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 · 24/02/2026

And for personal purposes, here’s the look at Roma’s squad last year. I separated players in to qualified/non qualified by minutes played. #roma

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Obviously the biggest question then is “who are the good players” and I can say without a doubt that these were the best players in 2025 and all other opinions are wrong

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Also wanted to compare the sum of the impact for players and how it compares to team performance. Weighting by minutes played, the xT net for players explains about 75% of the variance in goal differential.

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Overall the net impacts were more stable than the off/def only sides. Also not a surprise: players that played more had more stable numbers. Here’s correlation for each stat by minutes cutoff for all players. These improve by a few points if you restrict to players that remained on the same team

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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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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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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Yesterday’s puzzle was probably my best work ever (low bar to clear)

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I am shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Best Prince song Best Prince album

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Bloody Mat Conner @matconner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Added historical DANTE ratings for Men’s and Women’s CBB to the site back to 2020-21. foxandfortune.github.io/DANTE/Pages/... foxandfortune.github.io/DANTE/Pages/...