As a Chicago-born data nerd who grew up watching soccer with a statistical edge, I saw the numbers before the whistle blew. Los Angeles wasn’t supposed to win. Tunis Hope shouldn’t have scored. But 2-1, 2-0 — the algorithms didn’t lie. This wasn’t luck. It was insight dressed as chaos. I tracked every pass, every heartbeat of the underdog. Welcome to the future of sports analytics — where gut instinct meets machine learning.