Data Analyses of European Soccer

Dynamic Panel Data Analysis Of European Tourism Demand In Malaysia

Linked Soccer Data

The sport domain is strongly under-represented in the Linked Open Data Cloud, whereas sport competition results can be linked to already existing entities, such as events, teams, players, and more. The provision of Linked Data about sporting results enables extensive statistics, while connections to further datasets allow enhanced and sophisticated analyses. Moreover, providing sports data as L...

Current Approaches to Tactical Performance Analyses in Soccer Using Position Data.

Tactical match performance depends on the quality of actions of individual players or teams in space and time during match-play in order to be successful. Technological innovations have led to new possibilities to capture accurate spatio-temporal information of all players and unravel the dynamics and complexity of soccer matches. The main aim of this article is to give an overview of the curre...

A Statistical Analysis of the European Soccer Champions League

1. Introduction Pollard and Reep (1997) point out that " soccer coaches, players, fans, and the media are deeply skeptical and often suspicious, to the point of paranoia, at the suggestion that a statistician might have something useful to offer […] ". Statisticians, though, have a different opinion. Statistical interest on the aspects of the game has been steadily rising over the past decades....

Using FIFA Soccer video game data for soccer analytics

Soccer has become the most popular sport in the world over the last century, but very little is known about its structure. One of the main reasons for that is the lack of a large-scale dataset. Despite the sport being constantly discussed and recorded worldwide, in every season there are several events that neither specialists nor fans can characterize or predict accurately. In this paper, we p...