European Club Football after “Five Treatments” with Financial Fair Play—Time for an Assessment

An analysis of consultations with the crowd doctors at Glasgow Celtic football club, season 1999-2000.

OBJECTIVE To analyse all clinical presentations to the crowd doctors at Scotland's largest football stadium over the course of one complete season. METHODS A standard clinical record form was used to document all consultations with the crowd doctors including treatment and subsequent referrals. The relevance of alcohol consumption was assessed. RESULTS A total of 127 casualties were seen at...

SFAS 157 & the Market’s Assessment of Fair Valued Assets: An Examination of Fair Valued Assets Held by Financial Firms During and Following the Financial Crisis

Introduced in late-2007, SFAS 157 redefined existing accounting standards concerning fair value accounting and significantly impacted financial reporting for financial institutions. Prior studies, using larger samples of financial firms, have concluded that Level 3 fair values (the most opaque and subjective fair values) were heavily discounted by the market. Consistent with prior studies, this...

Playtime Measurement with Survival Analysis

Maximizing product use is a central goal of many businesses, which makes retention and monetization two central analytics metrics in games. Player retention may refer to various duration variables quantifying product use: total playtime or session playtime are popular research targets, and active playtime is well-suited for subscription games. Such research often has the goal of increasing play...

Identifying top football players and springboard clubs from a football player collaboration and club transfer networks

We consider all players and clubs in top twenty world football leagues in the last fifteen seasons. The purpose of this paper is to reveal top football players and identify springboard clubs. To do that, we construct two separate weighted networks. Player collaboration network consists of players, that are connected to each other if they ever played together at the same club. In directed club t...

The performance of football club managers: skill or luck?