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As we’re going to be analysing 100s of players on this page, we thought we’d take a minute to explain the model behind the numbers.

VEI scores every player 0 to 10, built the same way for everyone — compared only to their real peers, same position, same league, same season. Not legends. Not reputation. Just who they’re actually playing against.

5 is dead average. Below 4.5, behind the pack that year. Above 6.5, one of the best in the group. Above 7.5, the kind of season people are still talking about a decade later. Nobody really touches 10 — that’s peak Messi air.

This is the scale everything on this page runs on. Worth knowing before the rest of it means anything.

#VEI #Align #FootballAnalytics by @itsallign

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Six years ago, our editor wrote about a teenager breaking into Birmingham City’s first team in the Championship. This week, we go back to him.

Jude Bellingham has gone from a sixteen-year-old holding his own in the second tier to a Champions League winner, a Real Madrid mainstay, and one of the defining midfielders of his generation. That’s the story we want to tell properly, not as a quick stat update, but as an actual account of how someone gets from there to here.

We’re splitting the telling in two. @itsdottedmedia will carry the words, the context, the moments that mattered, the version of this story you can’t get from a highlights reel.

@itsallign will carry the numbers, running his performance through our VEI model to show, season by season, exactly how his output has developed over that time.

Same player, same six years, two different lenses. First deposit, revisited.

#dottedmag #premierleague #bellingham by @itsallign

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21 days ago

VEI scores every player 0 to 10, against real peers only — same position, same league, same season. Here’s what six years of it shows about Eze.

His first two Palace seasons sit below average — a young winger finding his level, then a season cut short by injury. Then the turn: the Hodgson resurgence crosses above average for the first time, followed by his genuine peak the year after, elite in front of goal and elite on the ball.

Then the strangest chapter. The FA Cup-winning season actually scores below average — not because the attacking numbers dropped, but because his defensive output hit its lowest point of any season measured, even as the trophy cabinet filled up.

Arsenal’s still being written. One thing hasn’t changed across all six years: his defensive number has never once crossed above average, at either club.

#Eze #VEI #Align by @itsallign

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a month ago

Six years ago, our editor wrote about a 14 in the Championship. This week, we go back to one of them.

Ebere Eze has gone from a promising academy talent to one of the most watched attacking players in English football, an England call-up now firmly part of the conversation. That’s the story we want to tell properly, not as a quick stat update, but as an actual account of how someone gets from there to here.

We’re splitting the telling in two. @itsdottedmedia will carry the words, the context, the moments that mattered, the version of this story you can’t get from a highlights reel.

@itsallign will carry the numbers, running his performance through our VEI model to show, event by event, exactly how his output has developed over that time.

Same player, same six years, two different lenses. First deposit, revisited.

#dottedmag #premierleague #eze by @itsallign

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a month ago

‘Archiving stories, conversations and ideologies that stand the test of time.’

Football media moves fast, and most of it is built to be forgotten just as quickly. In 2020, we set out to do the opposite. Dotted.Mag became a tangible product, something that could hold stories, conversations, and ideologies worth returning to, not just reacting to.

Issue 001 was where that started. Our editor profiled 14 players featuring in the Championship at the time. Six years on, they’re standing at the top of elite football.

That’s the story we want to keep telling. So we’re introducing Dotted.Bank, a running archive on our website where old stories get revisited. First up, we’re going back to those to see exactly how far they’ve come.

#dottedmag #footballmagazine #premierleague by @itsallign

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a month ago

ALLIGN SESSION #001

REF CAM FROM THE SESSION. NEXT SESSION JUNE.

COMMENT ‘⚽️’ TO JOIN THE COMMUNITY

#grassrootsfootball #footyaddicts by @itsallign

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4 months ago

‘THIS IS FOR MY 1%’ERS.’

07.05 — Competitive 9v9 at Leisure United, Dagenham. Your stats tracked. Your clips saved. This is where your game gets documented. Limited spots — book now at dottedline.world (link in bio).

#nonleaguefootball #grassrootsfootball #ballerleagueuk #allignsessions taken in Leisure United Parsloes Park by @itsallign

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5 months ago

‘FOR MY 1%’ers’

Calling all ballers. ☀️ Align sessions are back — 7th May at Leisure United Parsloes Park, Dagenham.

Book your spot with the link in the bio

#Dagenham #EastLondon #LeisureUnited #ParsloesPark
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SummerFootball NextLevel FootballCommunity taken in Leisure United Parsloes Park by @itsallign

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5 months ago

‘CALLING ALL THE BALLERS!’

This May, Allign sessions are back at Leisure United Parsloes Park, Dagenham — competitive football, every action clipped, all your data collected. Your game. Your career. Your data. Drop ALIGN in the comments if you’re ready.

#EastLondon #footballtraining
#GrassrootsFootball #LondonFootball taken in Leisure United Parsloes Park by @itsallign

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5 months ago

The numbers behind Villa’s season aren’t just about results.
They’re about Watkins generating 11.48 xG and scoring 8 goals — 3.5 below what that volume should produce. About Morgan Rogers scoring 8 goals on 4.97 xG — 3 above what anyone would expect from a wide midfielder. About Malen having the best xG90 at the club and spending most of the season on the bench.
The form collapse after MW18 wasn’t just tactical. It was a team running on unsustainable numbers. Rogers can’t keep outscoring his xG. Watkins can’t keep underscoring his. And until Malen gets a real run, the most efficient striker at the club is watching.
The data has been screaming this for months. Swipe to see it. 👇

#AstonVilla #AVFC #PremierLeague #FootballAnalytics #TheNumbersSay by @itsallign

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7 months ago

‘The Numbers Say..’

Every club is making a bet on age. Some are investing in the future. Some are cashing in now. Some don’t know which one they’re doing.

#pl #PremierLeagueStats #LUFC #AVFC #CFC by @itsallign

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7 months ago

Forest are in a relegation battle. The numbers explain exactly why.
14 losses. Shut out in 11 of them. xG negative in every single 15-minute window this season. And a combined dead ball xG differential of -11.58 — corners, set pieces, penalties, all leaking.
But the slide that should scare Forest fans the most? The striker chart.
Lucca and Awoniyi — the two most efficient forwards at the club — have shared 302 minutes between them all season. Igor Jesus has played 1,635. Two goals. MGW is carrying the attack from midfield on pure will and the data is screaming that it won’t hold.
This isn’t bad luck. It’s structural. And the Championship is getting closer.
Swipe to see it all broken down. 👇

#NottinghamForest #NFFC #PremierLeague #RelegationBattle #FootballAnalytics by @itsallign

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