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Stat, Viz, Quiz is the weekly Opta Analyst football newsletter. Our latest edition includes numbers on the FA Cup final, the Women’s Champi...

Can the Viola make amends for last season’s UEFA Europa Conference League final defeat to West Ham? We look ahead to Wednesday’s showpiece...

We’re using our college football ELO ratings, which offer a deeper understanding of both pass protection and pass rushing than traditional...

We bring you all the Opta stats from today’s Championship play-off final at Wembley with our Leeds vs Southampton stats page. Leeds...

The second grand slam of the year is here and once again it is littered with storylines. World No. 1s, Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokov...

Manchester United are 2024 Fa Cup champions But which teams have the most FA Cup wins to their name in the history of the competition?...

Analyse Saturday’s showpiece FA Cup final with our Manchester City vs Manchester United stats page. Our Opta match centre delivers...

The Boston Celtics finished the regular season with a league-best 64 wins. They stampeded through the first two rounds of the playoffs with...

Bilbao plays host to the 2023-24 UEFA Women’s Champions League final. We look ahead to Saturday’s game with our Barcelona vs Lyon predictio...

With a place in the Premier League on the line at Wembley, we look ahead to the Championship play-off final with our Leeds vs Southampton p...

The NFL may have fallen out of love with running backs, but college football never will. At a level of play that doesn’t overflow with...

Manchester United are huge outsiders for Saturday’s FA Cup final against Manchester City, but they aren’t completely without hope.W...

Whether it’s evaluating the best running backs in college football or which college backs are the best NFL prospects, our game-charting dat...

Can Pep Guardiola’s men seal a double, and could the FA Cup final decide Erik ten Hag’s future with the Red Devils? We look ahead to Saturd...

No one has yet scored a Champions League final hat-trick, but four have been scored in European Cup finals. We chronicle those trebles and...

NFL scoring peaked in 2020 and has fallen each year since. Drives are stalling, and it may have to do with defenses executing in the right...

With Mauricio Pochettino leaving Chelsea, we look at the favourites to replace him. Is it a poisoned chalice, or could one of these candida...

By working his way into a 2-2 count, Alejandro Kirk had Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Manuel Rodriguez right where he wanted him on Sunday af...

Stat, Viz, Quiz is the weekly Opta Analyst football newsletter. Our latest edition includes numbers on the Premier League 2023-24 season, t...

Gareth Southgate has named his provisional England squad for Euro 2024. The Opta Analyst team has had a think and put together some England...

Dublin’s Aviva Stadium plays host to the UEFA Europa League final on Wednesday. We look ahead to the showpiece game with our Atalanta vs Ba...

The Opta supercomputer has kept us company throughout the 2023-24 Premier League season. Now, we compare it’s pre-season projections with t...

Who has the best chance of advancing out of the two NBA conference finals? What storylines should we be watching as the final four vie for...

Feyenoord manager Arne Slot will be moving to Liverpool to replace Jürgen Klopp, so we have taken a look at the data behind the Dutch coach...

Who makes the Premier League Team of the Season based on Opta data?What an exciting Premier League season it was. Twists, turns, po...