Doug McDermottDoug McDermott
No Data, No Analysis: The Forgotten Standard of Football JournalismManchester, 10:40 p.m., a late-season Saturday. Half the lights in the press...
Vietnamese Martial Arts and the Medal Trap: How SEA Games Gold Became a Career CeilingAt Lumpinee, the crowd does not cheer the way a football stadium cheers. It...
Reading V.League Through Nine Data Lenses: Where Is the Blank Space?READING V.LEAGUE THROUGH NINE DATA LENSES: WHERE IS THE BLANK SPACE? In Janua...
Vietnam's Esports Transfer Window: The Empty Cell in the Tracking Sheet Is the Most Valuable SignalOpening the notebook at page 41 Page 41 of the tracking notebook I carry...
Deep Analysis: When Tennis Data Comes Up Empty — Lessons in Sports Information ProcessingIn the digital era of sports, where every serve, every rally, and every refer...
Abiodun Wins Europe Youth Top 10 U19: France's Youth Depth Is the Real SignalA Trembling Hand in Antibes The final match of Tiago Abiodun ended as the hal...
Senator Bong Go urges funding for Gilas' naturalized player poolSenator Bong Go, a political figure with significant influence over Philippin...
Seven Goals in Eight Games: What Really Stands Behind Salah's Hat-Trick Against GalatasarayIn August 2026, I sat in a small studio in Liverpool, a sheet of paper covere...
Table Tennis: Nine Analytical Dimensions and the Line Between Grounded Conclusion and GuessworkOn my screen, a table tennis analysis file opened with nine dimensions of...
Vietnam futsal rises to 20th in the world, but still behind Thailand and IndonesiaThe FIFA futsal world ranking released in September 2026 contains an unusual...
Ryotaro Ito and Blackburn Rovers' Most Expensive Free TransferI still remember that evening, when a message from Sasha Tavolieri popped up ...
Turkey Detains Central Referee Board President: The Investigation Reaches Turkish Football's RootsThat morning, the headquarters of the Central Referee Board (MHK) of the...
Reading Defeat as Data: France at Euro 2026 and BLG at MSI 2026On 9 July 2026, in Munich, Randal Kolo Muani opened the scoring in the 9th...
Blank Cells in a Transfer Dossier: Why Restraint Is a Deliverable, Not a FailureSeven in the morning in Valencia, I open a nine-section deep-analysis file....
T1 and the Mid-Game Problem Before Worlds 2026: When Individual Skill Can No Longer Save the SystemCaedrel said one sentence on stream, and it travelled faster than any stat...
Sports Data Analysis Cannot Be PerformedAccording to stage-1 result, the analysis content is insufficient. No actual...
Nicolo Tresoldi: Champions League Record and the Crossroads of a 22-Year-Old StrikerIn the context of European football witnessing the rise of a talented...
Ajax vs NEC: A Patchwork Lineup, Must-Win Pressure and the Story of TrustA night in Hai Phong, sea wind blowing through the riverside streets, rattlin...
Data Foundations in Esports Analysis: When Numbers Must Hold Before Any JudgmentThere are nights when, after the match ends and the arena lights blink out, I...
Kunlavut Vitidsarn at the 2026 Asian Games: A Rare Treble and a Final Without a Third GameThe scoreline read 21-12, 21-16. There was no third game. In a men's singles...
