On the eve of the new NBA season, we’ve taken a look at the early-season prospects of every team using two different measures. We’ve assessed the strength of everyone’s first 10 opponents and considered how much each team’s roster has changed since last term.
As FIFA 22 launches worldwide, the dilemma occupying most players when they fire up the game for the first time is how to assemble the best starter squad in Ultimate Team. We’ve looked at different ways that players can gain an early edge over their rivals.
It is unusual for any one franchise to dominate Major League Baseball for a sustained period of time. However, we’ve looked back over every previous season to identify the spells in which one franchise was unusually successful and MLB dynasties were established.
This year will see the 30th regular-season NFL London match staged since the International Series began, with games taking place on October 10 and 17. We’ve taken a look at what this flagship event has delivered for the sport of American Football and its UK-based fans.
We’ve revealed the players who have enjoyed the most success in the ATP Masters events and who could dominate them in the years ahead. Each of the nine tournaments in this series offers a tantalising 1000 ATP Tour ranking points to the winner.
One of the highest accolades in American sports is to be named the league’s Most Valuable Player. We’ve analysed every MVP award for the four leading sports to work out what the winners have had in common.
With the new season beginning in October, we’ve looked back at the league’s history to identify five of the greatest NHL rivalries. In addition to comparing each pair of teams, we’ve picked out the most memorable moments that have defined these long-running feuds.
We’ve assessed the top football managers to see what it takes to be successful at one of Europe’s major clubs. Our great infographic looks at age, experience, past playing ability and local knowledge of major leagues and their current employers.
We wanted to predict who could be the next golf legend to rise above the rest of the pack and dominate the sport – and identifying potential serial major winners is perhaps the most obvious way to do that in our great infographic.
The new Premier League season is just a few days away and for more than six million fans it’s not just their own club’s fortunes they’ll be sweating on. The immense popularity of the official Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game rivals the football itself at times.
It takes a rare combination of talent and effort to win a major sporting title, but it requires a particularly unusual quantity of both to defeat all challengers year after year. We’ve looked at some of the champions who maintained the highest level of dominance over a period of 10 years.
The ‘big five’ European leagues have released their schedules for the 2021-22 season so we have analysed the fixture difficulty for them all. While every team has to play everyone else at some point, timing can be everything. A tough start can easily undermine a positive pre-season, while a gentle run of opening fixtures can provide the momentum necessary for a successful campaign.
With Euro 2020 now over, attention is shifting to the upcoming domestic football season but the competition’s impact may be felt here as well. Until the first ball of a new campaign is kicked, the attention of fans tends to be fixated on the transfer market, where the Euro 2020 stars will have drawn the attention of the game’s big spenders.
The delayed European Championship captured our attention this summer, with domestic football taking a back seat after a long season. Club and league rivalries are still bubbling away though, so we tracked the fortunes of every player during the tournament in our Euro 2020 stats to see who contributed the most to it.