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Punching Above Baselines: When Boxing Strategy Learns to Differentiate

Opening — Why this matters now Elite sport has quietly become an optimization problem. Marginal gains are no longer found in strength alone, but in decision quality under pressure. Boxing, despite its reputation for instinct and grit, has remained stubbornly analog in this regard. Coaches still scrub footage frame by frame, hunting for patterns that disappear as fast as they emerge. ...

January 19, 2026 · 4 min · Zelina
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Pressing by Cosine, Defending by Distance: When Football Learns Semantics

Opening — Why this matters now Football analysis has spent the last decade drowning in numbers while still relying on gut feel at the most critical moment: tactical choice. Expected goals, heatmaps, sprint counts, and passing networks describe what happened, but when a coach asks what should we do now?, the answer often collapses back into intuition. ...

January 5, 2026 · 4 min · Zelina