Writing

Essays, research, investigations, and archived football writing.

• Contested Aerial Opportunities: Redefining How We Measure Aerial Play
  STATSWING Research · Mar 2026 · 15 min

  Aerial duel statistics structurally miscount 80% of contested aerial situations. This paper proposes a new measurement framework.

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• Epistemic Certainty in Recruitment: What Football's Confidence Infrastructure Conceals
  STATSWING Research · Mar 2026 · 14 min

  Football's confidence infrastructure is unexamined. This paper proposes an epistemic disclosure framework for recruitment decisions.

  footballphilosophyEpistemic CertaintyDecision Architecture
• The Execution Layer: Why Transfer Prediction Ignores Mechanics
  STATSWING Research · Mar 2026 · 12 min

  Transfer prediction operates on a single analytical layer. Mechanics data exists but the products that use it don't.

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• Kant on Analytic vs. Synthetic Propositions
  Academic Papers · May 2025 · 5 min

  A short explanation of why Kant takes 7 + 5 = 12 to be synthetic rather than analytic.

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• Campus Fashion: What Do KU Students Wear?
  The University Daily Kansan · Feb 2025 · 5 min

  An opinion piece on style, identity, and what the way KU students dress says about how they see themselves.

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• Epistemic Injustice
  Academic Papers · Dec 2024 · 8 min

  A critique of Miranda Fricker's account of testimonial injustice through Anita Hill's 1991 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony.

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• Precision Play: The Stiff Arm
  BallerzBantz · Jun 2024 · 8 min

  Expanding your circle of control — retaining command when running and dribbling. What precision play looks like when the defender commits.

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• Outlets: Football's Pressure Valves
  BallerzBantz · Jun 2024 · 10 min

  Introducing 'outlet value' — a new concept for understanding how teams release pressure.

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• Avoiding the Description Trap when Scouting (or Analyzing)
  BallerzBantz · May 2024 · 7 min

  Most scouting reports describe what happened. The best ones explain why it matters.

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• Beyond the Playbook: The Role of Anti-Strategy in Competition
  BallerzBantz · Apr 2024 · 9 min

  Anti-strategy operates at four levels: player, team, organizational, and cross-field. It's the game within the game.

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• Developing A Framework to Assess and Fine-Tune Dribbling in Football
  BallerzBantz · Jan 2024 · 12 min

  A year-long immersion into the mechanics of dribbling, broken into three phases of decision-making.

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• A Catharsis: Interrogating the African Leadership Academy
  Caped Corners · Mar 2023 · 20 min · Archived (PDF on request)

  A 4,000-word investigation into institutional failure: an inaccurate transcript that cost a Brown admission, and the absence of accountability that followed. Caped Corners is archived; PDF on request.

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• Abuja Stadium: How FG Abandoned Over N2bn Worth of Fire-Fighting Trucks for Almost 20 Years
  The ICIR · Feb 2023 · 8 min

  Investigation into ~20 years of government neglect — abandoned equipment worth billions at the national stadium.

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• At Last, Messi Immortalises His Football Fairytale
  The ICIR · Dec 2022 · 6 min

  On the night Argentina won the World Cup — the culmination of a career's worth of questions about greatness, legacy, and what a single tournament can settle.

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• Walid Regragui Is Setting the Pace for Africa's Football Ambitions
  The ICIR · Dec 2022 · 7 min

  How Morocco's manager built something nobody saw coming — and what it revealed about the assumptions built into tournament predictions.

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• How Do We Talk About Work?
  Caped Corners · 2022 · 10 min · Archived (PDF on request)

  On the pattern of not sharing accomplishments — the cultural training to mute work and the cost of intercepting transactions before they complete. Caped Corners is archived; PDF on request.

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• How I Stopped Producing Good Mathematics
  Caped Corners · 2022 · 12 min · Archived (PDF on request)

  On the engineering-to-philosophy switch, and the difference between being taught execution and being taught the foundation execution rests on. Caped Corners is archived; PDF on request.

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• Nigeria: Disenfranchised Teens
  Medium · Aug 2022 · 6 min

  On voter registration suppression and what it means when a generation is locked out of the process before they can participate.

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