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Ted Knutson

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Ted Knutson

@mixedknuts

Founder, StatsBomb, Variance Incorporated. @thetransferflow Daily Rumours newsletter thetransferflow.com/subscribe Frmr: Brentford FC, Pinnacle, SB

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Joined April 2010

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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Oct 31, 2024
In a new @TheTransferFlow podcast, @analyseFooty and I discuss: How to get a job in Sports Analytics. So many of you ask this question every week, we decided to do a full pod answering your questions with a special focus on hacking your way in.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Apr 17, 2024
It's been weird to watch Arteta - who is a bright, but still fairly young head coach - learn new lessons on the job every season. This year obviously very much about squad management, but also... it's still REALLY hard to compete at the top of the PL + CL on Arsenal's budget.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jun 21, 2023
I no longer analyse transfers in public for any team - except Arsenal - so some thoughts on Havertz. As a kid, he was probably the best 10/8 in Germany. He knows how to press (played for Roger Schmidt and Tuchel). Arsenal definitely love a flexible, talented player these days.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jan 19, 2025
Early in the season, Liverpool rode their luck a bit and got the best results that maybe weren't always that deserved. I have some bad news... They are getting better. They turned early-season defensive stability into MASSIVE shot dominance recently.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Feb 6, 2025
Blew up Ajax and probably set them back 3-5 years, then lasts 10 months at BVB. Seems like the Legend of Mislintat is dead now.
The Athletic | Football
@TheAthleticFC
Feb 6, 2025
Borussia Dortmund have sacked technical director Sven Mislintat after 10 months in the role. His exit comes two weeks after #BVB parted ways with head coach Nuri Sahin following a run of just one win in nine matches, with Dortmund subsequently appointing Niko Kovac. ✍️ @SebSB
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jul 10, 2023
We at @StatsBomb like to release free data. And not just like a game or two, but large data sets that people can really sink their teeth into. (Like Lionel Messi's entire Barca career.) We also get endless requests from students for analysis data. Too many, in fact, to process.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jun 17, 2021
Happy 8th birthday to @StatsBomb. It has grown from a place to collect analytics writing into one of the world's leading sports data companies. They said over and over again data in football wouldn't work. We now power over half the EPL + great teams all around the world.
Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jun 30, 2024
I feel like coaches look at Mainoo and they see his potential future, but almost nothing he does RIGHT NOW is good enough to start for England. Meanwhile, ENG needed a left back, and Levi Colwill was definitely good enough to make the backup/mascot slot.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Nov 5, 2024
This is amazing. Almost straight out of a presentation I built for the team in 2014.
Jamie Carragher
@Carra23
Nov 4, 2024
Brentford are the best in the PL at making the XG of a shot much better! #MNF ⚽️📊
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Aug 12, 2024
What I want to say about @Statsbomb would fill a book and more, but I will keep it short. StatsBomb is a great company that has been filled with great people creating great products. With Hudl's distribution, our football product will fundamentally change coaching process like
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Aug 20, 2024
This is greatness in data vis. I am so looking forward to chatting transfers again next week.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jun 21, 2023
Replying to @mixedknuts
It's hard to judge him on Chelsea performances other than he never looked out of place in the PL. Every attacker in that team was infected by dysfunction. Age is right. I think this is another very good piece of recruitment from Arsenal, who rarely go wrong these days.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Jun 11, 2024
He's Harry Kane. That's the running joke. We all know this... But that is a STUPIDLY GOOD first season at Bayern. Shot monster. 99th percentile xG. Never loses the ball. And near elite creative passing from up top. That's one hell of a punchline.
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Ted Knutson
@mixedknuts
Sep 16, 2025
Don't trust the headline, this is guesswork. It also says Arsenal, the team most known for Set Pieces right now, have one of the highest ball-in-play times in their matches.
Kieran Maguire
@KieranMaguire
Sep 16, 2025
Trend for long throws has slashed Premier League ball-in-play time. thetimes.com/article/243109…
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