Skip to main content

Again, For the First Time

Welcome to turbotrevor.com!

This is my latest attempt at creating an online place to publish and house some things I write. This is much cheaper and less fancy than my last attempt (tacoadvisor.com). The name seemed like a good idea, but it slowly faded on me. "Turbo Trevor" has been with me for about 12 years, and is easy, simple and I already have it on the social medias. There's no reason to be more complicated than that.

As for the content here, I have far more ideas than time, energy or wherewithal to actually carry them out, but we'll see what makes it to fruition. I will probably update and republish several of the (very few) things I wrote on Taco Advisor. I also plan to use this platform to share some of the random things I write about at far too much length in my group chats. It's easier for everyone to ignore a link than a block of text - or maybe it isn't? ("I ain't reading all that" etc.)

Maybe this would be better as a email sub thing like Ghost or Substack? Who knows.

That's all for this intro post. I mostly wrote this because I felt weird just posting something without an intro.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Austin FC 2023: System of a Down (Year)

Choose your preferred pop culture lede: 1. I’m just sitting in my seat and waiting for some goals! (to change these games) 2. Josh Wolff definitely has a method, but is it a system or anything resembling a process ? During the 2023 season, the Austin FC online realm was full of discussion about Josh Wolff and his “system”, “style” and any other term that essentially stands in for “how this team is working together to try to score goals.” To make sure we are all starting from the same point, I will give my basic understanding of the Wolff/Austin FC system: The goal is to disorganized the opponent with the ball, while maintain high levels of possession and using that possession to create high-value chances at shots on goal. Austin has also attempted to maximize set pieces, frequently utilizing short corners and long throws, but that’s not what we’re discussing right now. The above-mentioned discourse included, and still includes, discussions of whether the style of play and focus on po...
Post a Comment
Read more

NFL Week 13 Coverage Map Analysis - 2023

I'm starting to think there isn't much to say on these, but maybe we'll find a rabbit to chase around somewhere. To the maps for the first time in three weeks! The incredible people at 506 Sports make an NFL TV coverage map every week. I enjoy the minutiae of sports more than actual sports in most cases, and I love geography, so this one of my favorite sports-related things to look at. I've been sharing with a group chat and adding some of own highlights and analysis. The length of this endeavor has now exceeded the socially acceptable limit for a post in a group chat, so it's going to live here for as long as I remember to write it. This week's map post can be found here:  506 Sports Week 13 Coverage Map CBS Single Denver at Houston is the sort of national game, with the great Ian Eagle on the call. He's one of the best, and pretty underrated, I think. No Bills this week, so upstate New York gets that one too, along with souther SEC country. The splitting o...
Post a Comment
Read more

Primary Chance Creators - Does Austin FC Need a "Classic" Number 10?

I did some work on what I’m calling “Primary Chance Creators.” There has been a lot of talk in Austin media/fan discussions about need for a classic 10 or “primary chance creator,” so I wanted to see to what degree teams are reliant on one or two chance creators to a great extent, as well as how a team with a large degree of reliance on one or two players fares in goal scoring / xG. All stats are from FBRef. Buckle up, this is a lot. I took every team from the 2023 and 2024 seasons and found their total number of shot creating actions (SCA), which can include any live ball pass, dead ball pass, take on, shot, foul drawn or defensive action that leads to directy to a shot. (This means that a player can have an SCA and a shot on the same play.) I also found the top two players on each team in SCA, as well as their SCA/90 and the percentage of the team’s total SCA each player had. My final added metric was the delta between a team’s highest and second highest SCA players. Here's the G...
Post a Comment
Read more