# Developing A Framework to Assess and Fine-Tune Dribbling in Football **Published on [BallerzBantz](https://www.ballerzbantz.com/p/dribbling), January 2024.** **[Read the full piece →](https://www.ballerzbantz.com/p/dribbling)** The culmination of a year-long independent immersion into football. This long-form piece examines what underlies the art of dribbling — how it manifests in the game, whether it can be trained, how it differentiates across players, and how it can be honed. The essay integrates data analysis, mechanical observation, scouting paradigms, player development philosophy, and inferences about football's evolving meta. It represents Joel's approach to sports writing at its most ambitious: treating a single technical skill as a window into the sport's deeper systems. --- See also: [[reverse-engineering]], [[outlets]], [[anti-strategy]]