Raphael PavlicRaphael Pavlic
International FootballThe gap in front of goal and the war beyond the touchline: a football week observed from the training groundForty minutes, three phone calls, and a notebook that filled only two pages....
International FootballMan City and the 2026 Financial Fair Play squeeze: When financial advantage turns into on-pitch advantageIn the summer of 2026, as UEFA entered the first assessment cycle of Financia...
International FootballMusiala returns and scores: Bayern break the low block, but the workload question stays openThe first half ended without a goal. Bodo/Glimt dropped deep, built a low blo...
Table TennisWhen the Stands Go Silent: Vietnamese Table Tennis and the Lesson of Empty SpacesOne evening in March 2026, I sat in Phu Tho Arena in complete silence. Six...
BadmintonMahoor Shahzad and the Void Behind Pakistan's Women's Badminton Pioneer23 minutes. That was the entire time Mahoor Shahzad stayed on court in the...
Domestic FootballV.League Transfer Market: The Money Flows and the Game of Vietnamese FootballThe dawn in Ulsan never lies. It wakes up on time, has precisely the right...
Formula 1F1's Data Voids: When Analysis Fills the Gap with ImaginationAt three in the morning in Melbourne, I reopened the technical analysis packa...
EsportsEWC 2027 Opens 400 Global Qualifiers: LCQ Entry Is the Linchpin, While EWC Standards Stay UnrevealedAmong the 12 information points in the Road to EWC 2027 program, the most...
SwimmingYu Yiting Breaks Asian Record in Women's 200 IM with 2:02.80: Decoding a Short-Course Changing of the GuardI paused at the twenty-fourth second and rewatched that footage four times. T...
EsportsPatch Meta Analysis in LCK: Opportunities for Vietnamese Teams in the Transfer PeriodPatch Meta Analysis in LCK: Opportunities for Vietnamese Teams in the Transfe...
Domestic FootballNinh Binh dominate V.League September awards: four rounds, three prizes, one tactical signalV.League September ended with a set of awards that made Ninh Binh the centre ...
International FootballThe Data Gap: When Football Analysts Must Learn to Say 'Insufficient Information'On the night of 11 July 2026, at Luzhniki, during extra time of the World Cup...
BasketballDjordjevic's Second Quarter: A Win That Still Left a ScratchIn every post-game press room there is a silence before the coach opens his...
Martial Arts44-Year-Old Buakaw Banchamek Beats Meng Gaofeng for the Second Time: A Legend, Age, and an Unanswered QuestionIn the second minute of the second round, at the Max Muay Thai Stadium in...
International FootballA Defence Report Inside a Football Pipeline: The Wrong Label and Its CostOn my desk in Shenzhen there is a file of twenty information points. The labe...
VolleyballThe Empty Data Sheet and the Greatest Temptation in Sports WritingIn the autumn of 2026, I sat in the editing room of a television station in...
BadmintonKunlavut Vitidsarn Wins Asian Games 2026: The 8-2 Record Is Older Than the Gold Medal21-12, 21-16. In a men's singles badminton final at a multi-sport Games, a...
SwimmingWhen Swimming Analysis Becomes a Blank Page: Data Lessons from an Empty ReportI have spent 21 years reading data tables, but rarely have I seen an analytic...
Table TennisNine Empty Cells on the Table Tennis Data SheetEleven at night in Beijing, the screen in my office showed a spreadsheet with...
EsportsThe Maximum Sanction Against Himass and TanVuu: When PUBG Esports Confronts the Question of ConsistencyIn the footage I rewatched three times that night, there was a frame I had...
International FootballMan City and the 2026 Financial Fair Play squeeze: When financial advantage turns into on-pitch advantageIn the summer of 2026, as UEFA entered the first assessment cycle of Financia...
International FootballMusiala returns and scores: Bayern break the low block, but the workload question stays openThe first half ended without a goal. Bodo/Glimt dropped deep, built a low blo...
Table TennisWhen the Stands Go Silent: Vietnamese Table Tennis and the Lesson of Empty SpacesOne evening in March 2026, I sat in Phu Tho Arena in complete silence. Six...
BadmintonMahoor Shahzad and the Void Behind Pakistan's Women's Badminton Pioneer23 minutes. That was the entire time Mahoor Shahzad stayed on court in the...
Domestic FootballV.League Transfer Market: The Money Flows and the Game of Vietnamese FootballThe dawn in Ulsan never lies. It wakes up on time, has precisely the right...
Formula 1F1's Data Voids: When Analysis Fills the Gap with ImaginationAt three in the morning in Melbourne, I reopened the technical analysis packa...
EsportsEWC 2027 Opens 400 Global Qualifiers: LCQ Entry Is the Linchpin, While EWC Standards Stay UnrevealedAmong the 12 information points in the Road to EWC 2027 program, the most...
SwimmingYu Yiting Breaks Asian Record in Women's 200 IM with 2:02.80: Decoding a Short-Course Changing of the GuardI paused at the twenty-fourth second and rewatched that footage four times. T...
EsportsPatch Meta Analysis in LCK: Opportunities for Vietnamese Teams in the Transfer PeriodPatch Meta Analysis in LCK: Opportunities for Vietnamese Teams in the Transfe...
Domestic FootballNinh Binh dominate V.League September awards: four rounds, three prizes, one tactical signalV.League September ended with a set of awards that made Ninh Binh the centre ...
International FootballThe Data Gap: When Football Analysts Must Learn to Say 'Insufficient Information'On the night of 11 July 2026, at Luzhniki, during extra time of the World Cup...
BasketballDjordjevic's Second Quarter: A Win That Still Left a ScratchIn every post-game press room there is a silence before the coach opens his...
Martial Arts44-Year-Old Buakaw Banchamek Beats Meng Gaofeng for the Second Time: A Legend, Age, and an Unanswered QuestionIn the second minute of the second round, at the Max Muay Thai Stadium in...
International FootballA Defence Report Inside a Football Pipeline: The Wrong Label and Its CostOn my desk in Shenzhen there is a file of twenty information points. The labe...
VolleyballThe Empty Data Sheet and the Greatest Temptation in Sports WritingIn the autumn of 2026, I sat in the editing room of a television station in...
BadmintonKunlavut Vitidsarn Wins Asian Games 2026: The 8-2 Record Is Older Than the Gold Medal21-12, 21-16. In a men's singles badminton final at a multi-sport Games, a...
SwimmingWhen Swimming Analysis Becomes a Blank Page: Data Lessons from an Empty ReportI have spent 21 years reading data tables, but rarely have I seen an analytic...
Table TennisNine Empty Cells on the Table Tennis Data SheetEleven at night in Beijing, the screen in my office showed a spreadsheet with...
EsportsThe Maximum Sanction Against Himass and TanVuu: When PUBG Esports Confronts the Question of ConsistencyIn the footage I rewatched three times that night, there was a frame I had...
