Sitemap - 2023 - Plot the Ball

⚽ ‘Possession’ doesn’t capture how well Spain pass the football. Here are some numbers which do

🏀 Can this version of Zion Williamson dominate the NBA?

🏏 Australian batter Phoebe Litchfield has taken the leap in T20 cricket

🏀 Positions are often a convenient fiction — just ask NBA playmaker Josh Giddey

🏒 Connor Bedard is a once-a-decade NHL prospect. What would it take to live up to the hype?

🏏 How do we talk about sporting dominance? What Australia, the USWNT and the All Blacks have in common

⚽ The 'Big Five' leagues dominate men's club football — but still don't provide all the talent

⚾ Maybe Shohei Ohtani's all-round excellence was too good to be true

🏏 Indian batting prodigy Shubman Gill has found his best format

⛳ Ludvig Åberg — Europe's great Ryder Cup hope — fits a familiar golfing profile

⚽ Does Sam Kerr 'miss easy chances'? It's complicated

🏀 The NBA is starting to reflect basketball’s global footprint

⚽ Ousmane Dembélé is 40% of a footballing superstar

⚽ Spain are the most distinctive country in international football — for better or for worse

⛳ Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and conventional golfing wisdom

⚽ Two big questions ahead of the 2023 FIFA World Cup

🏉 Men's international rugby union changed gradually — then suddenly

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⚾ Another way of looking at Shohei Ohtani, baseball's two-way superstar

🏀 The many standout qualities of NBA Draft prospect Victor Wembanyama

🏏 Can New Zealand get back to the top of men's test cricket?

🏉 The Black Ferns Sevens are as good as they've ever been. What comes next?

🏉 Is Leinster's recent dominance of European club rugby a story about coaching?

Index

⚽ Brighton's unique path towards the top of European football

🏒 Like to play Football Manager? You might enjoy watching this NHL power play

⚽ There's a statistical outlier in this year's Man City side — but it's not Erling Haaland

⚽ Barça Femení are historically good — but will they win the UWCL again?

🏏 Charting the careers of the 'Big Four' of batting in men's test cricket

🏏 Two recent revolutions in English cricket, visualised

🏏 Batters to watch at the 2023 T20 World Cup

🏉 Six Nations, six charts, six paragraphs

🏏 What analysts of T20 cricket can learn from basketball