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Predicting the 2024 European Championship
Who are the favorites and dark-horses heading into the 2024 European Football Championship? We performed a statistical simulation to find out.
Biases in Expected Goals Models Confound Finishing Ability
The assessment of finishing skill in soccer using xG remains contentious due to players' difficulty in consistently outperforming their cumulative xG. We attempt to pin down the limitations and nuances and borrow techniques from AI fairness to address them.
ETSY: A rule-based approach to Event and Tracking data SYnchronization
We inroduce ETSY, a rule-based algorithm to synchronize soccer event data with its corresponding tracking / positional data.
Women's World Cup 2023 predictions: favorites are United States, England, Germany and Spain
Who are the favorites and dark-horses heading into the Women's World Cup 2023? We performed a statistical simulation to find out.
Unraveling the Strategy of Soccer Substitutions Using Data
We study how COVID altered substitution dynamics, assess the general impact of substitutions on goal-scoring and explore the realm of predicting impactful player swaps.
A data-driven guide to the 2022 World Cup’s rising stars
We use VAEP to identify the rising stars of the 2022 World Cup