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FORMAT · CASE FILES

THE DATA FILES

Short documentaries built from peer-reviewed research. One case per episode, four files per case, every figure traced back to a named source — and the caveats left in.

The Case Files

Newest case first
The Empty Stadium Experiment Case 02 6:31
THE EMPTY STADIUM EXPERIMENT
The Empty Stadium Experiment

COVID emptied Europe's stadiums and accidentally ran the largest controlled experiment in football history. What changed was not the players.

4 Case Files1,498 Ghost Matches6m 31s
Lost Before the Whistle Case 01 5:44
LOST BEFORE THE WHISTLE
Lost Before the Whistle

Science spent forty years measuring penalty shootouts. The pattern it found: most penalties are lost before the ball is even struck.

4 Case Files700+ Kicks Coded5m 44s

How a case is built

Why you can check every number
01

A verified fact sheet first

Every claim is sourced and written down before a word of script exists. Nothing outside that sheet reaches the screen — and claims that could not be verified are listed as dropped, not quietly used.

02

Directional facts stay directional

When the research shows a direction but not a number, the chart shows a direction. No invented percentages, and any schematic is labelled as one.

03

The caveats stay in

Each case includes the evidence that argues against its own headline — the leagues where the effect vanished, the studies that disagree. That is the point of a case file.