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Sports Analytics
Public-data football studies: the proving ground where the site's method was formed. 15 papers in the vault, 9 drawn here.
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Papers drawn in Sports Analytics (9)
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| Paper | Authors | Year | Identifier / Venue | Status | Relations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Referee Bias Contributes to Home Advantage in English Premiership Football Separates referee-specific disciplinary bias from crowd-induced home advantage across 5,244 English Premier League matches using fixed-effects regression on yellow cards, red cards, and penalties. | Boyko et al. | 2007 | DOI:10.1080/02640410601038576 | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 2 |
| The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees Bundesliga replication of the stoppage-time result, with the running-track/stadium-geometry variation used to separate crowd proximity from crowd size. | Dohmen | 2008 | DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7295.2007.00112.x | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 2 |
| The Professional Foul in Football: Tactics and Deterrents Analyzes the tactical professional foul in association football, showing that when booking deterrence is weak, committing deliberate transition fouls is a rational expected-value strategy. | Wright & Hirotsu | 2003 | DOI:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601506 | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 2 |
| A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions Complete 2017-18 seasons of the five largest European leagues plus Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup, as spatio-temporal events. The files are CC BY 4.0, verified through the figshare API, which makes this the only openly licensed source of foul location, foul timing and player-level cards this project has found. | Pappalardo et al. | 2019 | DOI:10.1038/s41597-019-0247-7 | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 1 |
| Are Football Referees Really Biased and Inconsistent? Evidence on the Incidence of Disciplinary Sanction in the English Premier League Models home and away disciplinary sanctions jointly via bivariate Poisson regression, testing whether referee card-issuance variance reflects team playing style or officiating inconsistency. | Dawson et al. | 2007 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00451.x | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 1 |
| Down to Ten: Estimating the Effect of a Red Card in Soccer | Ridder et al. | 1994 | DOI:10.1080/01621459.1994.10476850 | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 1 |
| Investigating Fouling Efficiency in Football Using Expected Booking (xB) Model Models P(card | foul context). The correctly specified alternative to a raw fouls-per-card ratio. NOT peer-reviewed -- cite as preprint. | Azmat & Yi | 2024 | DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2401.08718 | preprint | 1 |
| The Dirty League: English Premier League Provides Higher Incentives for Fouling as Compared to Other European Soccer Leagues Uses fouls-to-yellow-cards across five leagues as an indicator of fouling incentive. Reports Simpson's paradox on this ratio: the pooled trend differs from within-league trends, so it must never be analysed pooled across leagues. | Phatak et al. | 2021 | DOI:10.2478/hukin-2021-0095 | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 1 |
| The Sound of Silence in Association Football: Home Advantage and Referee Bias Decrease in Matches Played without Spectators | Sors et al. | 2021 | DOI:10.1080/17461391.2020.1845814 | peer-reviewed (vault claim) | 1 |
Curated semantic relation notes touching Sports Analytics (6)
extends → The Sound of Silence in Association Football: Home Advantage and Referee Bias Decrease in Matches Played without Spectators → The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees
Uses behind-closed-doors COVID-19 matches across European top-flight leagues as a natural experiment, proving that crowd absence eliminates referee foul and card asymmetry against away teams.
Drafted by: agent draft (gemini)
extends → Investigating Fouling Efficiency in Football Using Expected Booking (xB) Model → The Professional Foul in Football: Tactics and Deterrents
Quantifies tactical fouling efficiency via Expected Booking (xB) models, formalizing Wright's analysis of professional fouls where expected card cost is lower than transition threat.
Drafted by: agent draft (gemini)
complements ↔ A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions ↔ Down to Ten: Estimating the Effect of a Red Card in Soccer
Provides multi-league spatio-temporal event logs (fouls, cards, passes, shots) enabling match-level replication of red-card and foul-impunity models.
Drafted by: agent draft (gemini)
complements ↔ The Dirty League: English Premier League Provides Higher Incentives for Fouling as Compared to Other European Soccer Leagues ↔ The Professional Foul in Football: Tactics and Deterrents
Compares foul-to-card conversion ratios across European leagues, showing how lenient booking thresholds create systematic incentives for tactical fouling.
Drafted by: agent draft (gemini)
complements ↔ Are Football Referees Really Biased and Inconsistent? Evidence on the Incidence of Disciplinary Sanction in the English Premier League ↔ Referee Bias Contributes to Home Advantage in English Premiership Football
Models yellow and red card disciplinary incidence via bivariate Poisson regression, complementing Boyko et al.'s fixed-effects separation of referee bias from home-crowd advantage.
Drafted by: agent draft (gemini)
extends → The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees → Referee Bias Contributes to Home Advantage in English Premiership Football
Isolates stadium architecture (running track vs steep stands) and crowd proximity as the causal mechanism driving referee stoppage-time and foul-call asymmetry.
Drafted by: agent draft (gemini)
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