Financial literacy plays an essential role in the process of making financial decisions, as it represents a systematic effort aimed at development positive knowledge, and attitude. Extant literature indicates that among football players is low which ultimately affects their investment decisions. Therefore, purpose this study was to determine influence on personal decisions KPL Nairobi. The guid...

BACKGROUND The influence of injuries on team performance in football has only been scarcely investigated. AIM To study the association between injury rates and team performance in the domestic league play, and in European cups, in male professional football. METHODS 24 football teams from nine European countries were followed prospectively for 11 seasons (2001-2012), including 155 team-seas...

Professional football clubs are unusual businesses, their performance judged on and off the field of play. This study is concerned with measuring the efficiency of clubs in the English Premier League. Information from clubs’ financial statements is used as a measure of corporate performance. To measure changes in efficiency and productivity the Malmquist non-parametric technique has been used. ...

A rating system provides relative measures of superiority between adversaries. We propose a novel and simple approach, which we call pi-rating, for dynamically rating Association Football teams solely on the basis of the relative discrepancies in scores through relevant match instances. The pi-rating system is applicable to any other sport where the score is considered as a good indicator for p...

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....

The English Premier League is the top division league in England, most popular football for fans. competition date 2021/2022 season was announced on March 25, 2021 and schedule released June 16, 2021. Manchester City won last (2020/2021). purpose of this study to find out results Naive Bayes' accuracy determining which team deserves win does not deserve final standings. method used prediction N...

OBJECTIVES Football has the highest sports participation (10.6%) in Ireland ahead of its Gaelic counterpart (3.9%). Research into injury incidence and patterns in Irish football is non-existent. The aim of this study was to conduct a prospective injury audit of League of Ireland (semiprofessional) footballers during the 2014 season (8 months, 28 games). METHODS A total of 140 semiprofessional...

To identify a framework for referee training and selection, based on the key areas of effective performance, we conducted content analyses on Rugby Football Union referee assessor reports, referee training materials, performance profi les from a group of English premier league referees, and a review of published research on sports offi ciating. The Cornerstones Performance Model of Refereeing e...

ABSTARCTSince its inception in 1992, the Premier League has faced a number of economic shocks, including global financial crisis. While there is ample literature on insolvency football clubs, this does not necessarily help us gauge fragility to shocks. Clubs’ resilience shocks important our understanding League’s ability grow and outperform other leagues an increasingly competitive industry. Us...