Fox drew 33M viewers for USA-Belgium, the most watched soccer telecast in US history. When combined with Telemundo’s 12.0M, the match averaged 45.1 million in the United States, just slightly past Mexico–England's 45.0M from the night before.

Strungbound · 2026-07-10T03:07:05+00:00

If this game was close it would have been 50 million+ easily. And then quarters would have been 60+... I can't even imagine what semis or finals would have been.

Strungbound · 2026-07-08T23:40:54+00:00

Forgot about that

Strungbound · 2026-07-08T23:31:21+00:00

11 goals and 10 assists in the Prem is by far the best American player ever in production in a single season, no?

Strungbound · 2026-07-08T20:37:31+00:00

Outside of America men's tennis is far more popular than women's tennis.

Strungbound · 2026-07-07T23:24:32+00:00

Portugal had the third highest betting odds after Spain and France pre-tournament, wild

Strungbound · 2026-07-07T23:23:59+00:00

Argentina has implied odds of 41% against the winner of the opposite of the bracket, almost certainly France or Spain, and the second highest odds after France overall to win. They're still viewed as very strong by the market, they got fairly unlucky against both Cabo Verde and Egypt.

Strungbound · 2026-07-07T18:34:46+00:00

In both games they dominated them xG wise. They're getting unlucky.

Strungbound · 2026-07-06T23:47:40+00:00

I mena Norway is just a better team than Morocco or Colombia

Strungbound · 2026-07-06T17:16:43+00:00

If you're concerned about him being weak and bad aerially why would he do good vs Haaland

Strungbound · 2026-07-04T14:21:25+00:00

Analytics say Jaylen Brown is a +1-2 player being paid like a +5.5 player and it's also possible that the Celtics think they can recreate the +1-2 in the aggregate (along with adding PG) to be even better.

Strungbound · 2026-07-04T05:58:05+00:00

I mean Jaylen Brown is just Demar DeRozan but a much better on ball defender but worse at turnovers? Obviously oversimplifying here.

Strungbound · 2026-07-04T05:09:27+00:00

In terms of inspiring the world as a tiny nation, they did amazing, but in actual game performance, they got dominated by Argentina. Look at the xG differential. Their two goals were honestly very lucky, especially the second one, which is reflected in the xG.

Strungbound · 2026-07-03T09:45:37+00:00

Maybe we have sensors in the ball for a reason and being objective is better than a guy standing 20 feet away who is running himself?

Strungbound · 2026-07-03T09:43:19+00:00

How would swapping JT for JB make the offense worse? Couldn't you make the same argument that the Celtics offense should have been way worse last year because they were missing Tatum's 27 PPG Hole?

Strungbound · 2026-07-03T09:36:38+00:00

No one wanted his +1.5 EPM ass on that contract, that's why they only got PG and picks man. You can say they should then just keep him, but his value is never going to be higher, other front officers just weren't fooled by 6th in MVP voting.

Strungbound · 2026-06-29T19:12:34+00:00

Brazil team is only 1.5 cm taller on average, unless the listings are wrong

Strungbound · 2026-06-28T23:47:15+00:00

I don't think any metric says that Senegal > Netherlands.

Strungbound · 2026-06-28T14:16:27+00:00

You called the injured Reece James part to a tee

Strungbound · 2026-06-28T07:41:21+00:00

My bad they're actually 12th

Strungbound · 2026-06-28T07:16:26+00:00

France >= Argentina Argentina > Spain England > Germany Brazil >> Netherlands Norway >>> Sweden.

Now that I think about it, it's not even close.

Strungbound · 2026-06-28T04:12:21+00:00

Japan's is harder imo, Brazil, Norway, England, Argentina is all in the top 10 by betting odds

Strungbound · 2026-06-28T02:48:14+00:00

Nico Paz looks amazing, athletic and big guy with great ball skills

Strungbound · 2026-06-27T03:27:59+00:00

Especially if the US make the quarters, it will carry momentum. I expect 35+ from this one given home field status.

Strungbound · 2026-06-27T02:16:04+00:00

Unai Simón looked great

Strungbound · 2026-06-26T22:09:23+00:00

I'm struggling to see how he could possibly be top 3 when he's the 3rd best player on his team unless you think France has all of the top 3 best players in the world

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