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Happy New Year
I sat down to look at the TSK stats for 2011 in Google Analytics today, and it was jaw dropping. Before doing anything else, I want to thank all of you who come here an make it a site worth writing for and visiting. The growth we experienced here was remarkable. Team Speed Kills debuted in April of...
Truths, Whole Truths, and Advanced College Football Statistics: Bill Connelly Answers Questions About the Georgia Bulldogs
Bill Connelly writes for Football Outsiders, Rock M Nation, Football Study Hall, and SB Nation, and he and I have a lot in common. In addition to our shared association with the finest sports blogging network of them all, Bill and I both root for SEC teams that recently have dealt with embarrassing...
MLS Playoffs: Sounders at Salt Lake Leg One - Projected Lineups, Statistics
The biggest lineup news is that Mauro Rosales will not travel for the match at Real Salt Lake. That basically assures that the Seattle Sounders will have Lamar Neagle on the left and Alvaro Fernandez on the right. That move will of course shift the substitution plan a bit. Something that is already...
Sounders Over Goats 3-1 : Highlights, Statistics, Quotes
Sigi Schmid put out what looks to be his First XI in a game that didn't matter for the Seattle Sounders. As preparation for the MLS Cup Playoffs the match against Chivas USA was solid preparation, except for the possible injury to Mauro Rosales. On goal one Mike Fucito played the target role...
Extrapolated Stats: Week 6
TEAM STATISTICS Bears Opponents TOTAL FIRST DOWNS 285 [+] 307 [-] THIRD DOWN CONVERSIONS 59/197 (0.299) [+] 80/216 (0.370) [+] RUN/PASS RATIO 360/533 [+/-] 360/629 [-/+] RUSHING YARDS 1669 [+] 1949 [-] PASSING YARDS 3576 [+] 4408 [-] SACKS 37 [+] 51 [-] TURNOVERS 16 21...
Seattle Sounders 2 : San Jose Earthquakes 1 - Highlights, Statistics, Quotes
Kasey Keller's night was nearly perfect. He is ending his club career in a fashion where anyone would be happy for him to still be playing. From saves of snap headers, to a sequence that is reminsent of that epic match against Brazil he was as good as he's even been in MLS. Opportune finishing by...
Seattle Sounders 0 : Philadelphia Union 2 - Highlights, Statistics, Quotes
There's been a lot of talk about how much weaker the Eastern Conference is than the Western Conference. Saturday night's game was a bitter reminder that all it takes is one or two breaks to go a team's way and they can win. That's kind of what soccer is at it's core. In this case an attempted...
Seattle Sounders Win Third Straight US Open Cup - Highlights, Statistics, Quotes
There's a little problem with our format here of providing a quick recap and then a post that is just the data, an attempt to remove the emotion and review the game based on that alone. When a team makes history the emotion is a major part of it. The rush from the glory of victory is still there....
Seattle Sounders 2 : New England Revolution 1 - Highlights, Statistics, Quotes
Soccer is a game of goals. Not necessarily pretty goals, not amazing feats of beating strong defense, just goals. Saturday night as the Seattle Sounders beat the New England Revolution 2:1 the goals made were all off of defensive errors. Diego Fagundez was unmarked on a corner leaving him with...
State of the MLS Run In: 5 Weeks To Go
As the regular season winds down I'm going to be posting a weekly summary of the some of the data and predictions we're generating, which should give you some context going into each week of games. Previous Week The Portland Timbers have been quietly climbing up the playoff probability standings...
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