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Statistical Football prediction is a method used in sports betting, to predict the outcome of football matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of bookmakers [ citation needed ] [ dubious – discuss ] , who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches.
Opta Index Limited was founded in 1996 to analyze Premier League football matches and was contracted by Sky Sports for their television broadcasts of the 1996–97 season. The following season , Opta became the official statistics provider for the league itself and became sponsored by Carling .
Advanced Football Analytics (originally Advanced NFL Stats) has its EPA (expected points added) and WPA (win probability added) for NFL players. Grantland lead football writer Bill Barnwell created the first metrics focused on predicting the future performance of an individual player, the Speed Score , which he referenced in a piece written for ...
Association football is the official name of the sport governed by the International Federation of Association football . It is known in some parts of the world as "soccer"; a derivative of the word "association". In others, it is known simply as "football". For more information on the sport, see association football.
Transfermarkt is a German-based [1] website owned by Axel Springer SE that has footballing information, such as scores, results, statistics, transfer news, and fixtures. [2] According to the IVW, it is in the top 25 most visited German websites, and one of the largest sport websites after kicker.de. [3]
For example, Advanced Football Analytics ran a multivariate linear regression on the outcomes of American football games. The results determined that the most important aspect to winning the game was passing efficiency. [4] One of the problems that results from using linear regression is determining causation vs. correlation.
Goal, stylized in all caps and alternatively known as Goal.com, is a website currently dedicated to the coverage of international association football.Currently owned by the Integrated Media Company (IMC) division of TPG Inc. since 2020, [1] it is published in 18 languages across 38 global regions and edited by over 500 contributors as of 2019.
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Player of the Year Award was an annual football award presented by the organisation. First presented in 1992, the readers of the newsgroup voted in a format similar to that of the France Football Ballon d'Or award. It recognised the best player in the world and was discontinued after the 2005 edition.