As American soccer takes its first steps towards normality with the MLS is Back Tournament, we’ve used Football Manager 2020 to identify the next generation of young stars who could light up the league. We’ve compared the in-game attributes of all emerging MLS players aged 23 or under at the start of the game with their established counterparts.
To celebrate the return of Europe’s premier club competition this week, our analysts have devised a fiendish Champions League quiz based on the best teams, players and nations to have graced it so far. There are only 10 questions, making it the ideal challenge for a coffee break or half-time interval.
With the sporting calendar gradually returning to normality in the United States, we’ve taken stock of the most popular sports and identified which franchises have enjoyed the most success to date.
The announcement that Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have agreed to two fights means 2021 looks set to be a landmark year for British boxing. The first is set to be a unification bout from which the winner would walk away with a full set of heavyweight belts, assuming that neither boxer suffers defeat in the meantime.
While Roger Federer is still going strong despite approaching his 39th birthday, the landscape in men’s tennis is likely to change long before Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – already well into their thirties – reach that milestone. We’ve run the rule over the game’s leading players who are still under 30 and looked at when they might shine on the ATP Tour.
The 2020 Formula 1 season was just about to commence when the coronavirus lockdown swept across the world. We’ve analysed how the changes from the original schedule will affect the leading drivers and potentially influence the Championship.
With the Premier League season set to continue after a three-month break, we’ve been getting ourselves back up to speed with the data needed to analyse the most popular match bets. Looking back over recent seasons we’ve broken down the key goal scoring patterns including the type of goal, how many are netted and when.
As the first of the major European leagues to get back under way, the Bundesliga’s top players are getting more attention than usual. We’ve looked back at historical transfer patterns to work out which of the division’s stars are likely to earn a big move this summer.
When international sport is finally allowed to resume there will be an enormous amount of world titles waiting to be decided. Even without the rescheduled Olympic games, the sporting calendar will be packed, keeping us glued to our screens as all the unfinished business is resolved.
We’ve analysed every British world champion to have held a belt from one of the four main sanctioning bodies to reveal which has been the most successful in the history of the sport.
In the absence of live sport, many people are turning to the electronic variety for both entertainment and betting purposes. To help people understand and follow eSoccer, we’ve profiled the top competitions and the leading players who dominate them.
We’ve looked at the PGA Tour’s statistics to reveal every officially recorded drive of at least 450 yards – along with every player who registered a drive of at least 400 yards in a season – to identify who could break the record in the future.
Many fans will have been playing Football Manager 2020 over the last few weeks to get their fix, but we’ve gone one step further and used the game’s database to predict which young players will shine when the 2020-21 season finally kicks off.
Some UFC champions have come and gone but others have dominated for long periods. Retaining a title is no easy task so here we analyse all UFC results to see which fighters have done the best job of remaining the one to beat.