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The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary — 543 episodes
Premier League Week One: Spreadsheets vs Eye Test
Premier League Season Preview Draft: Part I
Premier League Dominance? Private Equity In Europe? The Uncertain New Football Economy
Infantin-Out? The FIFA private equity scandal and what comes next
Yan Diomande and Real Madrid, and Why the Transfer Market Seems Clogged
World Cup Final Thoughts, or Spain: Pretty Good Team
World Cup Semifinals: How Spain Won It, Did England Blow It?
World Cup Semifinals Preview: France-Spain
The USMNT have a bad night in Seattle
Round of 16 Preview, Part 3: Spain-Portugal and USA-Belgium
Bracket Breakdown
Limited World Cup Drama, Raphinha Out, Tuchelball, and More
World Cup Potpourri: FIFA Victorious, The Ronaldo Problem, Spuruguay and More
In Which We Rave About England
How to Watch Soccer Like a Nerd
USMNT 4, Paraguay 1
Champions League Final, World Cup Model, Podcast Announcements
Arsenal Can Point To a Scoreboard Now
Xabi Alonso to Chelsea
Meat Wall Apotheosis
Double Pivot Mousa Mania 2026 (Teaser)
Did Manchester United Improve Under Michael Carrick, Really?
PSG and Bayern Play a Good Football Match
The Origins of the Set Piece Revolution
Poker, Analytics, and the Optimized Online World with Sam Greenwood
Say Something Challenge, Premier League, Part I
Analytics, Linguistics and LLMs with Leif Weatherby
Champions League Round of 16: Second Legs
Champions League Round of 16 First Leg, Part I
Champions League and Paul the Apostle
Title Race Drama: What's Up With Arsenal?
Squad Player or Star Player?
Biathlon Analytics with the Penalty Loop Podcast
Set Pieces, Transfers, Private Equity
The Set Piece Revolution (plus a few CL thoughts)
Champions League Drama Incoming, Club Revenue Data In
The Incredible Xabi Alonso Saga Concludes
Amorin? Amorout!
Parity Has Come to the Premier League
Holiday Grab Bag: Semenyo, Real Madrid, Man United
Are Set Pieces Breaking the Premier League?
Salah Drama
Tony Bloom and the Premier League Sports Gambling "Scandal"
Tottenham in Crisis
The Football Gambling Scandal Rocking Turkey Right Now
Man City - Liverpool Analytics
Ballon d'Or! Ballon d'Or!
The Future of College Football, and also Soccer, with Bill Connelly
New Premier League Team Ratings
2025 Worst Contracts Draft, Part I
Premier League Table Sorting
Real Madrid and Florian Wirtz
Arsenal, Manchester City, and the Discourse
Are We Concerned? Liverpool and Aston Villa
Nottingham Forest Drama, USMNT
Transfer Window Roundup
Liverpool, City, and Early Thoughts on the Evolution of Premier League Tactics
A Very Strange Arsenal Match (with James Benge)
2025 Premier League Preview, Part I
Is It Possible to Get Promoted to the Premier League and Stay Up?
Luis Diaz or Rodrygo?
2025 Euros with Sophie Lawson
Double Pivot Summer Teaser
Morgan Gibbs-White to Tottenham
Tillman, USMNT, Williams, Barca
Chelsea Summer, Business
Private Equity and Football (Soccer?) with George Pearkes
Thomas Frank
Man City Summer, First Takes
Premier League Team of the Season Draft
Liverpool Summer Preview
Xabi Alonso and Trent Alexander-Arnold at Real Madrid
Inter - Barcelona Does It Again
Mailbag: Theoretical Goals, Expected Points
Champions League Semi-Finals Preview
The Cybernetics of Football with Dan Davies
Champions League Quarterfinals (Plus Lamine Yamal Talk)
Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett
England National Team with Grace Robertson
What's Happening Behind the Scenes at Manchester United, with Adam Crafton
United, Ratcliffe, INEOS and Cycling with Ben Walsh
The Best Team in the PL in the Last Two Months, and Italy
A Wild Weekend in the Top 5 Race
Premier League Top Five Race
The Double Pivot Theory of the Business of Football
The Mathys Tel Saga
City, Chelsea, Forest, Bournemouth
Crises at United and Spurs
So Many Man City Transfers
Analytics and the Premier League Table at Midseason
Barcelona Lose in Court (Does It Matter?)
Man City Keep Struggling
Manager Sackings in England
Meet the New Boss at Manchester United
Serie A Title Race / Top Four Race
Man City in Crisis
England and Tuchel with Grace Robertson
xG meets GTO: Talking Stats and Poker with Jonathan Jaffe
Ten Hag Out
Is There a Big 3 Anymore? Plus... the Nobody Wants This discussion
Mailbag: Pulisic, PSXG, Diarra and more
APT and PSR: Explaining the Man City - Premier League court case
Managers Are Such Sickos
City - Arsenal and the Title Race
Early Season Numbers
It's a Lot of Money to Lose: Chelsea Ownership Feud
Transfer Deadline Grab Bag
Pochettino, USMNT
Premier League Preview, Part II
Premier League Preview, Part I
Victor Osimhen and the Summer That Isn't Happening
Spain beat England and what's next
Euros Quarterfinals
USMNT Out, Berhalter Out?
Double Pivot Picks the Euros, Part I: Weak Side Bracket
Euros Round One Whiparound
Euros Preview Blowout (with Grace Robertson): Part I
Worst Contracts of the Premier League Draft, Part I
The Managerial Merry-Go-Round
Fullbacks and the Rise of Five Guys Tactics
Non-Big Six Team of the Season, Part I
Arne Slot and the state of Liverpool with Grace Robertson
Bayern - Madrid
Salary Caps, Regulators and Referees
In Which We Refuse To Construct Narratives
If We Ran Everton
Mailbag: Castles in the Air
Chelsea and PSR with Skanda Amarnath
Understanding PSR with Skanda Amarnath
Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City
Barcelona Finance with Jon Sindreu
Bayern in Crisis
Big Matches in Germany, Spain and the Champions League
Klopp Out (with Grace Robertson)
Mailbag Asked and Answered
Escape from Saudi Arabia
The Future of Manchester United (with Grace Robertson)
Chelsea January Check-In
The Super League
Premier League Title Race and Liverpool - United
Soccer Data with Sean Forman
Thomas Frank and the Path to a Big Managerial Job These Days
Just How Bad Is the Bottom of the Premier League Table?
777 Partners and Everton with Liz Hoffman
Shady Cypriot Banking and Chelsea Football Club
Premier League Lightning Round
How Bad Are Manchester United?
He Can't Keep Getting Away With This: The Newcastle Story
The Double Pivot Discord Fixes Football: Part I
Man City Lose Again
Referees
North London Derby
Schedule Adjustments and the Premier League
Early Season Statistical Trends
Transfer Window Roundup
You are neither over, nor are you back
Premier League Midfields Get Weird
World Cup Semifinals Recap / Finals Preview
World Cup Quarterfinals (with Arielle Dror)
Premier League 23-24 Preview: Part I
Barcelona and Real Madrid
World Cup Begins (with Arielle Dror)
Women's World Cup Preview with Arielle Dror
Two Approaches to Running a Midsize PL Club
The Rise of the Eights, the Fall of the Fullbacks
Chelsea Find a Buyer
Mbappe Drama
Messi to Miami
Football, Finance and Politics
Will Bayern's Title Streak End?
Pep City Marches On
Media, Arsenal and Analytics with James Benge
Relegation
Spurs Collapse
Brighton and Villa
Quick Hits
Potter Out
Multi-Club Models
PL Title and Top Four
A Capital of Love: Soccer Finance with Skanda Amarnath
How is Sheikh Jassim so rich?
Arsenal In Crisis?
Man City Is In Trouble
Does Chelsea Have a Plan?
Frauds at Juventus
Top Four and Relegation: Part I
Arsenal and Manchester City
Enzo, Cody, Mykhaylo and Miggy (Teaser)
Messi and Argentina Champions
Argentina, Brazil, Croatia and the Discourse on "Errors"
Recapping the Round of 16, Previewing the Quarters: Part 1
USA - Iran
USA - England
On The Upsets
What Was Gianni Infantino Doing? (and how does it relate to the Arab Spring proxy wars?)
England and Spain
Liverpool for Sale
On Pressing
Leeds and Marsch
Checking in on Spurs, United, and Chelsea
Arsenal and Liverpool
Derbies
September Mailbag
A Variety of Soccer Topics
Tuchel Out (Potter In)
<Borat Voice> My Priors
Are We Rethinking United and Liverpool?
Chelsea - Spurs
Week One Tactics-Ish: Arsenal and Liverpool
Premier League Preview: Part I
Summer Mailbag, Part I
Emergency Pod: Barcelona WTF
Chelsea's Deal, What Is It
Wingers
Analytics is about Context: Premier League Transfers Edition
NWSL with Arielle Dror
Looking Back and Looking Forward for the Top Seven
Spurs and Arsenal and Liverpool and City and Everton and
Premier League Roundup
Deep, Deep Blue Something
Erling Haaland
City - Liverpool
Return of Top Four
Relegation Race
Serie A and more with Adam Serwer
Were We Wrong About Arsenal?
Emergency Podcast: Roman Sanctioned
Football and the War in Ukraine
Bielsa Sacked, Bielsa-ly
Premier League Races
The Best Teams
Deadline Day Roundup, Pt 1
To All The Midfielders We've Loved Before
Win Probability and Leicester-Tottenham
Transfer as Kidnapping, Top Four
January Transfers
Holiday Mailbag, Pt 1
Making Sense of Omicron Football
Omicron and Football
How Can You Tell a Manager Is Working?
Ralf Rangnick
Ole Out, Arteta ??, Tuchel In
Premier League Error Bars, Part I
Antonio Conte
The Long and Short Crisis at United
The Premier League But More So
What Is Sportwashing?
Liverpool, City, and NWSL
Superteams In Crisis, Pt 1
Is The (xG) Table Lying?
Champions League: Is This Anything?
Berhalter and Southgate
Ronaldo and the Media, and then All The Transfers
Kane and Mbappe
Begin the Premier League season with your friends at the Double Pivot
Premier League Preview, Part I
Messi Out
Mailbag of Nerdery, Pt 1
Italy Win the Euros
Euros Semifinals (Unlocked Subscriber Episode)
Euros Quarterfinals
Euros Round of 16, Part 1
Euros Continue Continuing
Euros Begin (Again)
Euros Preview Pt 1 (featuring bonus USMNT content)
Postseason Mailbag
Season Ends, Managerial Merry-Go-Round Begins
Seasons Finale
Top Four, Top Four, Top Four
Prolegomena to Any Future Theory of Fan Protests
Manager Searches at Spurs and Bayern
What Happened to the Super League? (with Josh Robinson)
The Super League
El Clasico and the La Liga Title Race
The Top Four Race (yes, the top four race)
USMNT Mailbag
League of Freds
Podcast of Chaos: Messi and Ronaldo and more
The Relegation Fight
Klopp and Potter
Champions League Roundup
Champions League Returns, Pt 1
Return to the Top Four
Spurs - Liverpool and Top Four
Teaser: Player Profiles (Ødegaard and more)
Frank
Burning Questions, Pt 1
Hay League
Festive Frenzy, Ep. 4: The Pile-Up
Festive Frenzy, Ep. 2
Festive Frenzy, Ep. 1
The Derby and the Champions League
The Title Race Understanders
Masterclasses: Mourinho, Klopp and not-Arteta
USMNT and More of Your Questions
Mailbag, Part I
Five Questions about a Bonkers Season
Is Anyone Good? Part I: Premier League
Project Big Picture and Arsenal
Wild Weekend, Part I
We're Still Confused by the Premier League, Part I
Premier League "Is This Anything?"
It Begins: All the Takes from the First Weekend
Premier League Preview Extravaganza Eleganza: Part I
The Top Four(?) Race(?)
Champions League Final, Everton
Champions League Semifinals
Champions League Quarters, Part II
Champions League Quarters, Part I
The Final Day and What We Learned
The Final Day, Part I
CAS saves Man City but can anything save Barcelona?
What Remains of the Premier League
How Liverpool Won the Title
Premier League Return: Part 1
Timo Werner pod
The Title Race That Was
Bundesliga! Soccer! Games!
Sports, Education and Incarceration with Clint Smith
Newcastle's New Ownership
Will soccer restart anytime soon?
Spurs and Surveys with Brian Schaffner
E-Sports with Kim McCauley
US Soccer drama with Meg Linehan
The hours pass like days
Soccer in the time of COVID, redux
Soccer in the time of COVID
Pandemic and Relegation
Two Princes: Man City's ban, explained
Champions League Knockout Preview, Pt. 1
Who wants more mailbag? Cool, here's Pt. 1
Mousa Mailbag, pt 1
Stuff is Weird, Premier League Edition
Soccer and True Crime with Nate Scott
Teaser: European Players and Transfer Pods
Premier League Players to Watch, Pt. 1
Boxing Day Special, Pt. 1: The race for top 4
What's the ACTUAL deal with Liverpool?
Everton rebounds, City stumbles & Leicester is HOT
Emery Out
More-inho
Spurs' Mourinho era begins
What cost City against Liverpool
Why Liverpool vs. City might get weird
Unpacking everything from Liverpool vs. Spurs
The Premier League is bad
Statsbomb Conference Pod
Checking in on the early season narratives
Giant Weirdo Grab Bag, Part 1
Teaser: Champions League (P)review
City Lost Pod
Soccer and Stuff with Astead Herndon
Comeback Weekend Chaos
Around the Premier League
Looking back and ahead in the Premier League, and of course, Atalanta talk
Premier League Week 1
Teaser: Deadline Day Roundup
Premier League Preview Extravaganza-eleganza Part 1
Liverpool and Brooklyn Politics
The Tale of Mauro Icardi
Transfers a-go-go with a-Goodman
Arsenal and Barcelona with Zito Madu
RapinoePod
Around the World Cup with Meg and Michael
BOLD LIP EMERGENCY POD
Getting Ready for the Knockouts with Julie Foudy
The World Cup Begins!
Teaser: Transferpod
Women's World Cup Preview (with Meg Linehan)
Champions League Final Preview
Serie A and Broader Questions of Ethics Related To Manchester City
Premier League Teams' Players of the Year, Pt. 1
The Best Champions League Matches Ever, Pt 1
The Great Gackening of 2019
Teaser: Previewing a Big Week in Europe
There's A LOT going on in England's Top 4 and 7th place races
Teaser: Champions League
Liverpool top Chelsea, Arsenal survive Watford & more
Everton-Arsenal, Deulofeu's magic, Liverpool & more
What to take from recent Liverpool, Spurs and United performances
Surprises of the season, Pt. 1
International breaks were made for mailbags
Regression and the battle for Top 4 in England
Two draws, infinite chaos from weekend derbies
No Goals, One Podcast
Teaser: Champions League Stat Takes
Chelsea's continued stumble and the relegation race
The Title Race Tightens
The Return of the Premier League Crisis Conch!
Where did the Premier League c0me from and where is it going?
Teaser: Stats in Germany and Italy
Everyone's injured and David Wagner's gone
Teaser: The Rest of the Non Top 6 Eleven
Spurs-Chelsea fallout, Real Madrid is bad & Non-Top Six Team of the Season
Teaser: La Liga, Mailbag and a new feature
City - Liverpool - Pulisic
Teaser: Premier League Title Race!?!?
Mourinheulogy
Football and Race, Chelsea and Man City, Relegation
Sadness Derby I: Caley Edition
Special Edition with Brenda Elsey: The Copa Libertadores Final That Wasn't
What are we doing here, exactly?
Der Klassiker's chaos and Manchester United's woes
Teaser: European Super League
Real Madrid from all angles
Teaser: Champions League Rankings
What Makes a Team Better? Or Worse?
Super Extraordinary International Break Mailbag, Part 1
Fixer Upper, except with European soccer superpowers
Soccer and #MeToo, the allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo
Teaser: More stats!
Stats around the Premier League
Teaser: A big week for Spurs, Liverpool and Manchester City
Examining the Premier League's known unknowns
A quick glance across Europe as we come out of the break
Teaser: Around the Premier League
So, uh, about that Manchester United vs. Spurs match...
Recapping Chelsea vs. Arsenal and then it's mailbag time!
Previewing La Liga and recapping Arsenal vs. City
Premier League Preview Part 3
Premier League Preview Part 2 (Teaser)
Premier League Preview Part 1 (of 4!)
Mailbag Part 1: Why don't United and Spurs just swap Martial for Alderweireld?
The Quarterfinals
France to Brazil: Breaking down the matches from the hard side of the World Cup bracket
Teaser: World Cup Mailbag
How World Cup teams are faring as the group stages come to a close
Who's up and who's down at the world cup?
World Cup Preview Blowout Part 1
Fantasy Draft
Not a Teaser: World Cup Previews
EMERGENCY POD: Mark Hughes Edition
Teaser: Champions League Final
The managerial carousel is spinning, and revisiting the week's biggest matches
Teaser: Ted Knutsen Interview
Europa and F.A. Cup Final previews
Teaser: Subscriber mailbag
How Spurs and Liverpool stumbled to the finish line
Teaser: Exciting CL clashes to chase away those dreadful Europa ones
Takes Across Europe
Teaser: So much Europe
Spurs are frauds, but at least Serie A just got interesting!
Teaser: FA Cup Preview
Is the relegation battle in the Premier League done and dusted?
Teaser: Sevilla-Bayern and three others games
Failurepod: City and Barcelona
Teaser: Champions League Pep Talk
The Premier League is good and the Bundesliga Is bad
Explaining xGChain, evaluating defensive midfielders and more — it's the Mailbag!
International Breakdown
Is it time to question whether Mourinho's style can still consistently work?
The Triumph of Basic Football (and also Juventus)
Parsing through an extremely deep relegation battle in the Premier League
It's raining tennis balls in the Bundesliga!
The chaos that was Juve vs. Spurs, and a big picture view of the Top 4 race
Recapping Liverpool vs. Spurs by talking about referee decisions
Examining the transfer window on the eve of it closing
Advanced Studies in Wrongness
Return of the crisis conch: Chelsea, Arsenal and Real Madrid
Celebrating an oddly exciting January transfer window with your questions!
Is there a right way to be a fan?
Shouldn't Manchester United be better, and will Virgil van Dijk pay off for Liverpool?
The Champions League draw, the crisis conch and the Premier League relegation battle
The Champions League final 16 are set, so who's the favorite?
Understanding why Burnley don't break expected goals
The Champions League is boring right now, so let's talk about other things
Who's the seventh-best team in the Premier League?
Spurs rejoice while the two Merseyside clubs are in a panic
Previewing Liverpool vs. Spurs and worrying about Chelsea
Everything is the worst, but can it be fixed?
How injuries may end up affecting the Premier League title race
Talking Juventus, Real Madrid and Arsenal with Aaron West
Everton's mess, the Manchester title race and Liverpool in crisis
Palace does a very Palace thing, what we learned from Liverpool vs. City, and Barca is apparently fine
Discussing Arsenal, FIFA, doping & more with Aaron Gordon
What the heck happened with the current transfer market, and is there a bubble?
Tottenham Hotspur's Serge Aurier problem
Did the opening fixtures confirm your EPL top 7 suspicions?
EPL Preview Part 2: The Double Pivot Preseason All-Stars
EPL Preview Part 1: Where will every club finish?
Is this Neymar deal for real? Plus, what the Premier League's Top 6 remaining needs
Who's ready for more mailbag? Because we've got it!
Summer Transfer Mailbag!
Extreme nerding out over expected goals
Reconciling love for the game with the complicated social issues that come with it
A closer look at where the USMNT stands in WC qualification, plus mailbag questions!
Real Madrid won the Champions League, and thus Ronaldo is better than Messi
Previewing the Europa League final with Priya Ramesh
The worst predictions the Double Pivot made this season
Who is the worst player getting minutes on a Top 6 PL club? Mega mailbag time!
The Champions League semifinals are suddenly boring! Plus, an Arsenal deep dive
Breaking down huge matches in Manchester and Madrid – plus a mailbag!
Have Monaco proven they're good enough to win the Champions League?
The fine margins exposed by this week's Champions League results
The top 4 race tightens, but has anything changed?
Pulisic or Dele Alli? It's mailbag time!
Hot takes! Come and get 'em!
Declining to analyze the chaos that happened in Barcelona
Examining Liverpool's bizarre record vs. good and bad clubs
The MAGIC of the League Cup and a short trip to Italy
Leicester City's fall from grace and the relegation battle
Why Alexis is like the Spartan general Brasidas, and other blowout revelations
Which Premier League results revealed the most? Plus a mini-transfer window review
The beautiful chaos that was City vs. Spurs
Premier League: To buy, or not to buy?
Breaking down Spurs-Chelsea and examining City's "crisis"
Samir Nasri's Twitter mess, Bob Bradley's sacking & midseason awards
Can anyone catch Chelsea? What the numbers say
How exactly do analytics work when it comes to defense?
Real Madrid, where tactics are overrated
Who will win the Premier League's race to the bottom?
Adventures in the Bundesliga, or why everyone hates RB Leipzig
The Best of La Liga and the Worst of USMNT
Gab Marcotti on analytics in football media
Breaking down four strikers, plus the "father of soccer analytics"
How the Premier League title race is shaking up
Two very different Manchester vs. Merseyside clashes
Life cycles and time horizons
Spurs stun City, Barca in crisis and Bob Bradley is a Swan
Introducing The Goalmouth, Howler’s newest podcastisode
True injury impact and re-evaluating some hot takes
Taking stock of the Premier League's Top 6
Expected Goals Extravaganza
Pressing Matters
Should we be more worried about these English teams, or Messi's hair?
What we absolutely did not learn from Week 1 of the Premier League
Premier League Preview Blowout – Part 2
Premier League Preview Blowout – Part 1
Transferpalooza 3: The Legend of Florentino's Gold
Transferpalooza 2, The Paul Pogba-ing
Transferpalooza! A guide to strategies, styles and spending
How did Portugal pull that off, exactly?
France's attack vs. Portugal's impenetrable wall for the Euro 16 final
Euro 16 mega episode: Recapping the quarterfinals and previewing the semifinals
Previewing the Euro 2016 quarterfinals
Messi's Argentina woes continue, and the Euros get exciting
USMNT Copa América postmortem, plus a Euro knockout round preview
Can the U.S. stop Argentina?
What do we really know about the U.S, England, France and Belgium?
Episode 4: The wrong way to talk about sexual assault and sports
Holy goals, USMNT and Argentina
The Euro 2016 favorites + more Copa América Centario
Podcast Debut: Previewing Copa América Centario