A quick and dirty exploratory dashboard to analyze 5 years of player data (FIFA 16-17-18-19-20) across select game metrics and provisional wage/transfer value information. A rough player similarity eye test is also included using TSNE
Data: Sofifa
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I enjoy looking at this World Cup map before every game I watch. In which countries do the players from each national team play? The map also allows you to look at which club sends which players to the World Cup. Bayern Munich sends more players than anyone else. Source: https://t.co/m5qnGMVime
4 - Sweden are the first side to win their first game by 4+ goals (5-1) and then lose their second by 4+ goals (1-5) at a FIFA World Cup tournament since...
Sweden in 1938.
ABBA.
🇳🇱 Países Bajos golea 5-1 a 🇸🇪 y amplía a 14 su racha de partidos invictos en mundiales, la racha más larga de la historia
Su última derrota fue contra 🇪🇸 en la final 2010
3 - In the first game at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, there were three red cards awarded.
At the 2022 World Cup, only four red cards were shown in 64 games overall.
Brandished.
Random day in November 2022:
10:00 - Japan vs Costa Rica
13:00 - Belgium vs Morocco
16:00 - Croatia vs Canada
19:00 - Spain vs Germany
We’ll never forget you.
Different LLMs, when asked to write an essay on the same debate prompt, converge on the same main argument far more often than humans do, a phenomenon we call "argument collapse". On ~200 debate prompts, LLM essays make a unique main argument just 3% of the time, compared to 65% for human authors.
While each LLM essay might be totally reasonable on its own, as more and more of them spread through public discourse, they flatten the range of arguments that we read. Read more 👇