Check out FiveThirtyEight’s Women’s World Cup predictions. When Japanese defender Saki Kumagai knocked in the game-winning penalty kick to complete Japan’s improbable comeback against the United States in the 2011 Women’s World Cup final, she made history not only for her country (which was still healing from a devastating tsunami months before), but also for […]
Check out FiveThirtyEight’s Women’s World Cup predictions. When Japanese defender Saki Kumagai knocked in the game-winning penalty kick to complete Japan’s improbable comeback against the United States in the 2011 Women’s World Cup final, she made history not only for her country (which was still healing from a devastating tsunami months before), but also for […]
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (June 2, 2015), we discuss the announcement by FIFA’s Sepp Blatter that he will step down, and preview the Women’s World Cup, […]
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (June 2, 2015), we discuss the announcement by FIFA’s Sepp Blatter that he will step down, and preview the Women’s World Cup, […]
Check out FiveThirtyEight’s Women’s World Cup predictions. Women’s sports don’t have the same rich data that men’s sports do. So what do you do if you want to forecast the Women’s World Cup? You gather up everything you can get. We put together a database of about 8,000 international women’s soccer matches since 1971 — […]
