Jul. 22nd, 2023

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The good: Ignoring first place, there was racing all the way up and down the grid.

The bad: That Ferrari. Last year we had a car that went, and a strategy team that didn't. This year, the strategy team have reached the dizzying heights of not-actively-harming-the-team, but the car has no go. Given the other two Ferrari teams make up two of the bottom three I suspect it's the engine.

The embarrassing: Channel 4's coverage in general (seriously, it look me 5 minutes which included an ad break before I had to hit the mute button).

The coverage pretending that Norris getting ahead and staying ahead for a lap and a half was a sign of someone challenging Red Bull's domination, rather than it taking that long for Verstappen to figure out which was was forward following the jostling at the start, and then the Red Bull overtaking the McLaren in a lap.

The racing was closer while there was no DRS activated, and I think it highlights that the go-faster button's time is through. DRS was invented to create more overtaking opportunities, now all it does is mean that no one else has a chance of keep the stronger cars behind them, no matter how good the individual driver is.
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Slightly late, but really, who starts a World Cup on a Thursday!!!

Make these charts revealed some interesting things:

1 - All teams have at least 1 player playing in their home league except Canada. I'm not sure if that's because the US league is both so strong and right next door.
2 - All teams have at least one player playing abroad.
3 - Adding more teams has made the diagram much messier.
4 - A remarkable number of Zambia's players (4/23) play in the Kazakh league. Also, I found out there was a Kazakh league. This shouldn't have surprised me.
5 - There are Saudi Arabian women's teams. That really did surprise me.

What does the diagram look like?

Two large network diagrams under the cut )

The club teams with the most representatives are Barcelona, with 17, Chelsea, with 16 and Paris Saint-Germain with 14.

There are 32 teams but 24 communities.

Two network diagrams coloured by community )

It's actually really hard to tell where the centre of the diagram. Obviously, there's the physical centre, which would be Brazil or New Zealand in terms of national teams and Pachuca for the club teams, but the weight of the teams is concentrated in the bottom, where Sweden, Norway and Denmark make a really heavy cluster.

That also makes it hard to make predictions (as L requires). The following are mine from this diagram, with the caveat that it was really hard to distinguish the centre of the diagram.

Group A - Philippines and New Zealand out, but closer than expected (I said this before the NZ vs Norway game and have witnesses to me saying it. Multiple witnesses. I should also apologise to Norway for drawing them in my work sweepstakes.)
Group B - Nigeria and Ireland out
Group C - Zambia and Costa Rica out
Group D - China and Haiti out
Group E - Portual and Vietnam out
Group F - Brazil and Panama out, but that sounds weird to my ears
Group G - South Africa and Argentina are out, but see previous statement
Group H - Morocco and Colombia out

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