B00.scores

B00.teams

B00.founders


  Example data set for soccer rating and prediction.  These are a set of ca 2000 select soccer matches for boys age Aug 2001 to Jul 2000 in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia during the 2012-2013 season.


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B00data

This package uses time dependent Poisson regression and a record of goals scored in matches to rank teams via estimated attack and defense strengths.  The statistical model is based on Dixon and Coles (1997) Modeling Association Football Scores and Inefficiencies in the Football Betting Market, Applied Statistics, Volume 46, Issue 2, 265-280.  The package has a some webscrapers to assist in the development and updating of a match database.  If the match database contains unconnected clusters (i.e. sets of teams that have only played each other and not played teams from other sets), each cluster is ranked separately relative to the median team strength in the cluster.  The package contains functions for predicting and simulating tournaments and leagues from estimated models. The package allows fitting via the glm(), speedglm(), and glmnet() functions.  The latter allows fast and efficient fitting of very large numbers of teams.  The fitting algorithm will analyze the match data and determine which teams form a cluster (a set of teams where there is a path of matches connecting every team) and fit each cluster separately.

E Holmes

fbRanks

Association Football (Soccer) Ranking via Poisson Regression

B00data function

The data are supplied as a scores data frame and a teams data frame.  The score data frame is the raw match data taken from multiple leagues and tournaments and teams appear under slightly different names in different tournaments.  The teams data frame has the display name for a team and then a series of columns called alt.name.1, alt.name.2, etc with the alternate names used by the team.  Teams in this area compete in leagues governed by different associations and only play each other during open tournaments.  Teams within an association will meet teams from different leagues within the association cups.

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The match results were recorded from the league and tournament websites during the 2012-2013 season.

B00data: Match and Team Data for B00 Youth Soccer Matches

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