UNDERSTANDING LA LIGA: ARE MATCH PERFORMANCES AND PLAYER MARKET VALUE RELATED?

Ebola Treatment and Prevention are not the only Battles: Understanding Ebola-related Fear and Stigma

Tennis Patterns: Player, Match and Beyond

This paper proposes to apply the framework of pattern mining to the game of tennis. The method builds upon similarity measures for subrallies from a tennis match. Several mining problems are examined, where frequent subrallies (that have a high similarity to other subrallies from the same match) must be found. One can consider individual players or matches (involving rotation), and also general...

Variability of soccer referees' match performances.

The aim of the present study was to determine the between-match variability in soccer referees' match performances. 1 269 individual match observations were undertaken on 59 referees (range 2-79 games per referee) officiating in the English Premier League and Championship from 2003/2004 to 2007/2008 using a computerised tracking system (Prozone (®), Leeds, England). Between-match coefficients o...

ebola treatment and prevention are not the only battles: understanding ebola-related fear and stigma

Football Player's Performance and Market Value

A lot of money is involved with the transfers of top players in the big European football leagues. For various reasons, obtaining a good economic valuation of football players throughout the year is valuable, in other words, not just when a player has just transferred. Furthermore, it is relevant to consider how the market value of a player relates to the performance of that player. Both these ...