Methodology
Champions League 2025
The 2025 Champions League highlight favorite was not the hardest goal. Open play, contested lanes, and set defenses chan…
Methodology
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Methodology
Grafite 2009
Grafite scored a Bundesliga backheel in 2009 that still owns the obstructed-vision axis of the difficulty model.
Methodology
Puskás Award Bias
The Puskás Award reliably identifies which goal the most people enjoyed watching, not which goal was hardest to score.
Methodology
Top 10 Goals Videos
The clip economy ranks goals by how they look in slow motion from the broadcast camera. Difficulty is a different questi…
Methodology
Messi vs Maradona vs Pelé
The Messi versus Ronaldo question is closed. The harder all-time argument is Messi, Maradona, Pelé, and the data cannot …
Methodology
Messi vs Ronaldo
The Messi vs Ronaldo debate was settled in 2023. Every defensible attempt to rank the two careers on shared statistical …
Methodology
50 Greatest Goals
The 50 greatest goals of the last 20 years, ranked by an algorithm that ignores hype. The results are not what you expec…
Methodology
Best Goals 2025
The 25 best goals of 2025, ranked by a model that ignores hype. No pundits. No fan votes. Just difficulty scores and the…
Methodology
Best Goals 2026
The best goals of 2026 so far, ranked by a model that ignores hype. Early-season patterns, difficulty scores, and what t…
Methodology
Best World Cup Goal
The best World Cup goal of the last 20 years, ranked by difficulty. The answer is not the one you were told it was.
methodology
The Goal-Difficulty Algorithm
A public methodology for ranking great goals without pundits. Eight inputs, empirical weights, and why Messi's catalogue…