The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary Podcast
1) Tony Bloom and the Premier League Sports Gambling "Scandal"
There has been a lawsuit filed against Tony Bloom and his sports gambling syndicate alleging, well, the lawsuit is actually just asking for money. But it is also about how sports gambling syndicates w...Show More
2) Tottenham in Crisis
A hot start on points masked underlying problems, but a blowout loss to Arsenal and what should have been a blowout loss to Chelsea have brought focus back to what seems to be wrong at Tottenham. We b...Show More
3) The Football Gambling Scandal Rocking Turkey Right Now
It's a huge, wild, and complex story. Referees suspended, players implicated, the third and fourth divisions suspended, criminal investigations into Super Lig clubs and referees. We break down what's ...Show More
4) Man City - Liverpool Analytics
City won 3-0. The non-penalty xG in the match was dead even. What does that mean, what are the statistics telling us about this match and about Man City and Liverpool? Support the show
5) Ballon d'Or! Ballon d'Or!
We kick off the new Double Pivot Ballon d'Or tracker podcast series with a discussion of why we're going to be doing this, tracking both the players who we think will deserve the award and who is more...Show More
6) The Future of College Football, and also Soccer, with Bill Connelly
We talk to Bill Connelly, ESPN staff writer and author of the book Forward Progress, about the American sport that we all agree has the most uncanny resemblance to European and global soccer, college ...Show More
7) New Premier League Team Ratings
Caley has built a new projection and team rating model so we talk through what it tells us about the Premier League right now. Arsenal's incredible defense, Newcastle's confusing defense, Liverpool's ...Show More
8) 2025 Worst Contracts Draft, Part I
We are joined by two of the Double Pivot's official correspondents -- Salacious Gossip Correspondent Joel Wertheimer and Financial Shenanigans Correspondent Skanda Amarnath -- for the second annual Pr...Show More
9) Premier League Table Sorting
It's analytics podcasting time. We are table sorting and talking Arsenal, City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle and Manchester United. Support the show
10) Real Madrid and Florian Wirtz
We continue to monitor teams and players that are underperforming our expectations, or, perhaps, overperforming and then suddenly dramatically underperforming our expectations in the case of Real Madr...Show More