This study applied multiple machine learning algorithms to classify the performance levels of
professional goalkeepers (GK). Technical performances of GK's competing in the elite …

This paper studies the effect of fan attendance on home field advantage in top European
soccer leagues. We exploit exogenous variation in the level of fan attendance driven by …

There is growing on-going research into how footballer attributes, collected prior to, during
and post-match, may address the demands of clubs, media pundits and gaming developers …

Technical performances of teams competing in the professional second divisions of
England, Germany and France were analysed over five seasons in order to determine which …

Introduction. The analysis of technical performance in soccer helps to identify the most
important variables that distinguish successful teams from their unsuccessful counterparts …

The aim of this study was to investigate the inter-league and inter-nation variations of key
performance, situational and individual variables on penalty success across four elite …

Seasonal statistics for 637 professional football players performing in the English Premier
League (EPL) across 3 intermittent seasons were analysed via a series of Kruskal–Wallis …

This study examined the impact of COVID-19 on 28 indicators of match technical
performance (MTP) for football attacking players upon their return to play. Analyzing data …

The aims of this investigation were to determine if ageing effects were present in elite
international level cricket. Ball-by-ball data were analysed for 96 bowlers in the 50-Over …

This paper reports an empirical investigation of game interruptions in competitions based on
data from the European Big-5 leagues. The results showed that 1) visiting teams and teams …