Abstract Analyzing football score data with statistical techniques, we investigate how the not purely random, but highly co-operative nature of the game is reflected in averaged properties such as the probability distributions of scored goals for the home and away teams. As it turns out, especially the tails of the distributions are not well described by the Poissonian or binomial model resulti...

OBJECTIVE To assess the exposure of players to injury risk during English Premier League soccer matches in relation to selected factors. METHODS Injury risk was assessed by rating the injury potential of playing actions during competition with respect to (a) type of playing action, (b) period of the game, (c) zone of the pitch, and (d) playing either at home or away. In all, 10 games from the...

A range of cross-sectional models are estimated with a view to establishing the factors that determine the valuation of professional athletes in a highly-specialised sport, with an application to cricket’s Indian Premier League (IPL). We distinguish between personal characteristic and playing ability factors, and with respect to the former, between ability in different forms of the sport. We fi...

Although a considerable literature exists on determinants of managerial compensation, much of it focussing on the role of incentives, there is much less known about the im-pact of managerial remuneration and quality upon attainment of organizational goals. In this paper we use a novel panel data set from the German premier soccer league (Bundesliga) as a case to show how variations in manageria...

Department of Chemistry, Vidya Bharati College, Camp, Amravati, Maharashtra, India Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran Laboratoire Chimie des Matériaux, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda-60000, Morocco Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA Division of Organic Chemistry, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India Department of Pharmaceutical Chemi...