2025 NWSL Previews: Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride

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2025 NWSL Previews: Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here! We got a preview of this exact match up already, with the Spirit defeating Orlando in a penalty shootout in the Challenge Cup Final.

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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2025 NWSL Previews: NJ/NY Gotham FC and KC Current

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2025 NWSL Previews: NJ/NY Gotham FC and KC Current

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here!

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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2025 NWSL Previews: Portland Thorns and North Carolina Courage

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2025 NWSL Previews: Portland Thorns and North Carolina Courage

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here!

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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2025 NWSL Previews: Chicago Stars FC and Bay FC

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2025 NWSL Previews: Chicago Stars FC and Bay FC

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here!

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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2025 NWSL Previews: Racing Louisville and San Diego Wave

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2025 NWSL Previews: Racing Louisville and San Diego Wave

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here!

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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2025 NWSL Previews: Angel City FC and Utah Royals FC

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2025 NWSL Previews: Angel City FC and Utah Royals FC

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

If you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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2025 NWSL Previews: Houston Dash and Seattle Reign

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2025 NWSL Previews: Houston Dash and Seattle Reign

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here!

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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A Day at the American Soccer Insights Summit: The Latest and Greatest in Soccer Analytics

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By Akshay Easwaran

Soccer data environments can often be seen as black boxes: based on club websites or American Soccer Analysis’ own State of MLS Analytics survey, we might know that something sporting-data-related is going on at a team’s training ground, but it’s often difficult to place what exactly that something is. In their defense, club and team personnel often want to protect any sort of competitive advantage so this sort of secrecy is (somewhat) justifiable, but these inner workings are what sickos soccer analytics nerds and college students interested in the industry really want to know about. 

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2025 MLS Season Previews: Los Angeles Galaxy, LAFC, Inter Miami

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Six Stars, Zero Cap Space

By Sean Steffen

You hate the Galaxy. Chances are, you’ve hated the Galaxy since you started following the league. But let’s face it. You haven’t TRULY hated the Galaxy in a long time. In fact, for the younger generations, I’ll bet the booing was perfunctory. “Why are we booing this franchise? They are irrelevant.” Heck, going into MLS Cup, I saw a lot of tweets rooting for the Galaxy to prove the power of fan boycotts. Didn’t like that. You aren’t supposed to root for us. With Will Kuntz in charge, you may never root for us again.

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