Portland, Grazzini, and Opta: A foray into the soccer stats world

Lately I've been spending a lot of time hunched over my laptop, working on sprawling spreadsheets stacked with strange abbreviations, lots of numbers and percentages, and neatly colored rows (I like to keep things organized). This has been my response to last Saturday's disheartening home loss to the Portland Timbers as well as my attempt at figuring out just what is wrong with the Fire and whether or not Sebastián Grazzini is the answer.

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