I made the same switch a couple years ago

Enjoyed the post on how you built the blog, really like the theme as well.

A little late to the party but here's mine: https://bgrnwd.com/

Built with Hugo and deployed with GitHub Pages.

Heads up, it's giving me a "Your connection is not private" warning on both Chrome and Safari iOS

Thanks for the heads up, looks like "Enforce HTTPS" became unchecked for GH Pages. Digging in to why.

StatsBomb has been great for open football data, which is hard to come by. I always enjoy the Statsbomb panels at Sloan too.

If anyone is interested in getting started with soccer/football analytics, this is a good place to start: https://github.com/devinpleuler/analytics-handbook