Readings
These are not conclusions. They are attempts to use FSL's vocabulary as a lens — applied to real matches, players, and situations to see what it notices and what it misses.
Each piece begins with a question FSL makes possible. Whether the answers hold up is part of what's being tested.
Treat them as the language thinking out loud.
Precise Poetry: On Laptop Managers and the Language Football Might Be Missing
Is football missing a language for collective condition?
Comparing Momentum and State: Rethinking Football’s Hidden Dynamics
Opta's Match Momentum and FSL are both trying to explain what a scoreline leaves out. Are they measuring the same thing at different resolutions — or is FSL describing something momentum genuinely can't see?
Same xG. Different Football.
Same xG. Possibly very different football. Does that difference explain why some chances keep coming back and others don't?