Malter Analytics

06/16/2026

With USA’s win versus Paraguay and Australia’s upset win over Turkey, the US odds to win their group jumped to 72% from their pre tournament odds of 37%.

Looking ahead to the USA Australia match, team USA differentiates themselves as the much faster squad, but the Australians will match USA’s physicality well, especially in their defensive third.

Link in bio for more analytics on all 48 teams!

06/11/2026

Team USA enters the men’s with an 83% shot at making it to the knockout round of 32 and a 23% chance at their first quarter final appearance since 2002. Follow along our World Cup app all tournament for projections, analytics, and team insights! Link in bio to check it out

04/27/2026

We wrote up what a computer-vision pipeline for goal-line review would actually look like. Detection, line geometry, trajectory fitting, multi-camera fusion. And why even a perfect model probably wouldn’t have settled this one either.

More info on our blog.

04/27/2026

With the playoffs kicking off this week, we pulled every goal, shot, penalty, and faceoff from the regular season and compared the PWHL to the NHL. What's the same, what's wildly different, and what the data says about year three of the league.

With the Professional Women's Hockey League postseason kicking off this week, we wanted to review in data the trends and patterns of the league's 3rd...

04/16/2026

We used Google's MediaPipe pose estimation to build a real-time bike fitting tool. Point a phone camera at a rider from the side and it automatically tracks joint angles, body position, and counts pedal rotations through the video. No sensors, no expensive equipment.

The rotation tracking works by watching the knee's vertical position over time. Each pedal stroke creates a wave pattern, and by detecting the peaks we can calculate cadence straight from the video.

Check out the full write-up with video demo:

Bike fitting is one of those things that's part science, part art. A good fit can save watts, prevent injury, and shave minutes off a triathlon split. Most...

04/14/2026

We've tracked all 900+ ABS challenges through the first two weeks of the MLB season. The biggest surprise? Catchers are winning 60.6% of their challenges compared to Batters at just 46.5%.


Full analysis here:

MLB's Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system debuted in 2026, and two weeks of data — 971 challenges across every team — already reveals a clear...