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You’ll know it when you see it, which, quite frankly, you’re not likely to anytime soon.

We may never see sabermetrics formulas like BAPIB, WAR or the slash line in baseball enter mainstream soccer coverage, or even out-of-the-way nerd blogs. But as our understanding of how best to apply the incredible array of available information improves, we may see some far-flung statistics enter commonplace usage while others fade away.

A guy who’s poor at math(s) tries to understand soccermetrics.

The hardcore Toronto FC fan base encourage fans to keep going to games to support the players in a “trying time.” Why should they?

It means LA is still incapable of beating Toronto FC. It means that the team has improved, perhaps even enough for a sustained post-season run..

A Canada-Armenia game report.

I think it’s far more insidious for a soccer writer to worry about their career rather than write what they think.

You get that “something” by taking soccer seriously, from the ground up.

In countries where football is the only sport of importance, that’s fine, fans love it, papers will cover all they can. In places like the US and Canada, two nations in the midst of an MLB season, just having finished the NBA finals and about to see off the Stanley Cup, casual soccer watchers aren’t going to spend much effort looking into why WCQs are more important than Gold Cup matches.

The goal now is to build support for the Canadian national men’s team on the back of the resurgent Canadian professional game.