Football Logs: Airtable for the Footballing World
The story in one line: Every football argument you have ever had in a group chat now has a live table that settles it. Dribble's Football Logs put 867 players from Europe's top five leagues and all 20 Premier League clubs into interactive tables you can sort, filter, re-lens, and share. It is the closest thing football has to Airtable. And it is free.
The group chat problem
Football arguments die in group chats. Someone claims their winger creates more than yours, someone else posts a screenshot of a stat table from three weeks ago, a third person says the numbers are wrong, and the argument dissolves into vibes. The data to settle it exists, but it lives in static tables, paywalled dashboards, or somebody's spreadsheet that stopped updating in March.
Football Logs are built for the moment the argument starts. Each log is a live table over Dribble's data: players, teams, competitions, matches, managers, and referees. You filter it, sort it, flip its lens, and share the exact view that proves your point. The table is always current, so the argument is always settleable.
Six logs, one for every kind of question
The Logs homepage organizes everything into six categories, each a different kind of table:
- Players: every player through every lens: finishers, creators, dribblers, ball winners, keepers.
- Teams: tables, deserved tables, and form.
- Competitions: leagues side by side.
- Matches: results, thrillers, and xG races.
- Managers: points, tenures, and overachievers.
- Referees: cards, penalties, and VAR.
Pick a question or find a name. Every answer opens as a live log you can poke, twist, and share.
One dataset, many lenses
A static table answers one question. A log answers whatever you ask it next.
Open the Players log and you get 867 players across the top five leagues, ranked by xGI per 90 by default. Then you flip the lens: Fantasy Picks (chances and chance creation per 90, minutes played, returns so far), Finisher (who is actually converting), Creator (chance creation), Dribbler, Ball Winner, Keeper, All-Rounder. Same 867 players, seven different arguments, one click apart. And if none of those is your question, Make Your Own builds a custom lens from scratch.
The Teams log works the same way: the standard table, a Deserved Table (ranked by points deserved minus points won, the xG truth behind the standings), plus Attack, Defence, and Form lenses.
Controls for every depth of curiosity
Three modes tune how deep you go: Glance for the headline, Play for the interactive table, Dig for the full detail. Above the table, plain-language controls do the rest:
- Filter by league, season, and what the table is ranked by.
- Set a minutes threshold (the default Players view requires 360+ minutes, hiding 133 players who have barely featured).
- Find a name searches any player, club, manager, or referee instantly.
- Surprise Me picks a question for you when you just want to explore.
- Save View keeps the exact table you built, filters and all.
Every row carries a verdict in plain language: "Elite Finisher", "Running Hot", "Chance Machine", "Riding Luck", "Tight At The Back", "Winless In 5". Percentile bars show where each number sits against the league. You do not need to know what xGI means to read the room, but if you do, the numbers are all there.
Follow your players, keep your album
Tap the star on any player or club and it joins your album. Each visit, your section shows what changed for the players and teams you follow. The album lives in your browser, and signing up (free) keeps it on every device. Your shortlist of players to watch, your club's form story, your fantasy picks: all in one place, updating on its own.
Settle An Argument
The front page runs a daily set of questions with live leaderboards attached:
- Which Premier League team deserves more points than it has? (Bournemouth lead at +5.5 deserved over won, with Forest and Fulham behind.)
- The biggest thrillers of the Premier League season, ranked by thrill score.
- Which referee reaches for the cards most?
- Which manager wins the most points per game?
- Who is scoring way above their xG this season?
- Who creates the most chances in Europe's top five leagues?
Each card opens the full log behind the answer, already filtered to the question. Share the answer, or open the log and keep pulling the thread yourself: change the league, change the season, change the ranking, and the table recomputes. That is the Airtable move. The artifact is not the article, it is the table, and the table never goes stale.
Free, all of it
Every lens, every log, every filter: free to explore. No paywall between you and the Deserved Table, no subscription needed to build your own lens or settle tonight's argument. The same data feed that powers Dribble's API, BigQuery tables, and downloads is behind these tables, and the tables themselves cost nothing to use. Sign up free if you want your album on every device; otherwise just open a log and start poking.
Why tables beat articles for this
We write data stories every week, and we like them. But a data story is frozen at publish time, and football is not. A table that recomputes when you change the filters is a story that never ends: the reader's next question is answered without leaving the page, without waiting for next week's piece.
That is the bet behind Football Logs. Not another dashboard, not another static table screenshot. A living grid over the same data feed our paid products run on, with the friction of a spreadsheet and the freshness of a live score app, free for anyone settling an argument.
Where the numbers come from
Player and team counts, lens names, and leaderboard positions in this piece were observed live on the Football Logs product (dribble360.com/logs) on Oct 18, 2026; screenshots above are unedited captures from that session. The underlying data is Dribble's Opta-powered feed: expected goals, chance creation, and official results, refreshed daily.
Settle your own argument, free. Every log, every lens, every filter is free to explore: sort the tables, flip the lenses, build your own view, and share the link that ends the debate. Open Football Logs