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Yes, ah to quote a a fun extra time ah bit, are you watching the games or are you just looking at the stats, Jeremiah? Yeah, I'm definitely just looking at the stats, I'll be honest. Yes. So um i I would say that so ah the the numbers relative for i I looked at this a couple of weeks ago, so um I'm not sure if maybe this was changed slightly with Minnesota and then the Galaxy game recently, both of which the rapids ah conceded more goals than what their XG was at. If we're trusting both MLS soccer dot.com and I'm a fot mob truther. I think their algorithm is better. That's just me. In any case, um you know if you look at it, Stefan's mostly been like balanced. So it's not like the it started off absolutely horrible and it got to like being average or it went kind of the other way. It's kind of just been consistently like a standard deviation below the mean throughout the season. um he There were shots that he was giving up that were really soft in like the first 10 games of ah the season. Um, I will say that, um, I i don't know, I haven't looked at the stature of my to see whether or not we're accounting for a lease cup, obviously where he outperformed all the, wo the, for sure. The numbers I was looking at were just, we're just, um like wrapped so so i think it was a nigs cup yeah, it was like 2.3 XG that club America had when he pitched a clean sheet against them. And then he had that save in, um, I think he made two saves against club America in that shootout. And then it was the goalie versus goalie in the around and, uh, and club America's goalkeeper missed that. So we're missing some of that context or maybe the, the metrics as well, which obviously the rapids are tracking. They love their advanced analytics over there at Dick's sporting goods park. And so if we look at that in all comps, I think those numbers look better. And I think if you look at that, the trend as well is also better. Um, the rapids were conceding more goals post shot in the first 10 games of the season. Um, a lot of that was Stefan finding his footing. making some poursées, some defensive changes as well. You had Mois Bombito entering into the um starting lineup when Andreas Maxu had kind of had a carousel of different center backs as his partner as well. Bit of a language issue there as well that had since been resolved. um And then in kind of that middle third, he got better, the team got better, but still, they're a team that there's a they're a team that's comfortable winning games 3-2, even if they're at home.