Joel

Football nerd. Unconvincing winger. Previously in football. Also found at @joel_bkr @MessiMinutes

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

early days, but:

the average skill level in SF's casual soccer leagues is _way_ higher than i expected. more or less as good as london.

bullish for 2026.

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

live your life, jakub. https://t.co/uj9UpZY0T0

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

could anyone put me in contact with a professional fifa player? have a maybe-great business proposition.

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

higuain must be bloody relieved

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

just look at this shit. g o a t.

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

it was fun arguing about messi vs ronaldo while it lasted. congrats to the undisputed king.

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

once he’s dragged the team of nobodies and has-beens to a world cup, is there going to be *any* good-faith argument that he’s not the best?

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

actually pretty smart attempted save for lloris vs messi. get the advantage of going same side as initial keeper movement in case that the penalty taker commits to that side, or have time to react in case they don’t.

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

looking forward to the revisionist history wherein messi should have won several of ronaldo’s ballon d’ors in the last decade :)

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

once he’s dragged the team of nobodies and has-beens to a world cup, is there going to be *any* good-faith argument that he’s not the best?

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

what’re you relying on? comparisons to ali daei? made-up goal numbers? number of mafia contacts?

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

anyone in CDMX want to play for free at 5-a-side game in condesa this saturday or sunday?

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

@Grahnen15 @CristianIChifoi shit, thank you v much for letting me know

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

if boxing has weight divisions, why doesn’t basketball have height divisions?

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

what’s the best content to read/watch/listen to to quickly get back up to speed with progress in football analytics since 2019?

[Joel Becker @joel_bkr]

my pet project health dashboard has some updates!

https://t.co/qkToj1ABOL

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

@Torvaney haha. that will not be my take. i do like it! in fact i'm about to steal your incremental improvement for my own health website.

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

@kmedved @903124S @Torvaney ha. not sure i would've expected that. do you have anything on how the decay approach works if not only taking weighting of lagged dependent var, and/or for kalman filter what goes into state etc?

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

personally, i had enough difficulty persuading close family/friends about index funds…

[Joel @MessiSeconds]

interesting @ClaerB segment on footballer’s finances. when i was on far edges of the youtube world, i think there was suspicion that something similar was true for some online stars