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A roster construction decision tool for MLS expansion teams 一个花名册建设决策工具,为MLS扩张队
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-08 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0041
Zachary J. Smith, J. Bickel
Abstract We present a mathematical modeling framework for roster construction of a Major League Soccer (MLS) expansion team. The model seeks to construct the best squad feasible under league salary rules, while balancing present value, potential value, and future cap flexibility. Player acquisition decisions, as well as allocation of salary, targeted allocation money (TAM), general allocation money (GAM), and designated player slots, are determined simultaneously by a mixed-integer programming model. We demonstrate the model’s functionality in constructing a hypothetical expansion roster and propose a number of extensions.
摘要本文提出了美国职业足球大联盟(MLS)扩军球队阵容构建的数学建模框架。该模型寻求在联盟工资规则下构建最佳阵容,同时平衡现值,潜在价值和未来薪金灵活性。玩家获取决策,以及工资分配,目标分配资金(TAM),一般分配资金(GAM)和指定的玩家插槽,都是由混合整数规划模型同时确定的。我们在构造一个假设的扩展花名册时证明了该模型的功能,并提出了一些扩展。
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A peculiar phenomenon and its potential explanation in the ATP tennis tour finals for singles ATP网球巡回赛单打决赛中的一个奇怪现象及其可能的解释
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-17 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0043
Itamar Lerner
Abstract The ATP finals is the concluding tournament of the tennis season since its initiation over 50 years ago. It features the 8 best players of that year and is often considered to be the most prestigious event in the sport other than the 4 grand slams. Unlike any other professional tennis tournament, it includes a round-robin stage where all players in a group compete against each other, making it a unique testbed for examining performance under forgiving conditions, where losing does not immediately result in elimination. Analysis of the distribution of final group standings in the ATP Finals for singles from 1972 to 2021 reveals a surprising pattern, where one of the possible and seemingly likely outcomes almost never materializes. The present study uses a model-free, optimization approach to account for this distinctive phenomenon by calculating what match winning probabilities between players in a group can lead to the observed distribution. Results show that the only way to explain the empirical findings is through a “paradoxical” balance of power where the best player in a group shows a vulnerability against the weakest player. We discuss the possible mechanisms underlying this result and their implications for match prediction, bettors, and tournament organization.
ATP年终总决赛是网球赛季50多年来的结束语。它以当年最好的8名球员为特色,通常被认为是除4大满贯之外最负盛名的赛事。与其他任何职业网球锦标赛不同,它包括一个循环赛阶段,小组中的所有球员相互竞争,这使它成为一个独特的测试平台,可以在宽容的条件下测试表现,在这种情况下,输球不会立即导致淘汰。对1972年至2021年ATP决赛单打最后小组排名分布的分析揭示了一个令人惊讶的模式,其中一个可能的和看似可能的结果几乎从未实现。目前的研究使用无模型的优化方法来解释这种独特的现象,通过计算组中玩家之间的比赛获胜概率可以导致观察到的分布。结果表明,解释这一实证发现的唯一方法是通过一种“矛盾的”力量平衡,即团队中最优秀的玩家面对最弱的玩家时表现出脆弱性。我们讨论了这一结果背后的可能机制及其对比赛预测、投注者和比赛组织的影响。
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Kelly criterion and fractional Kelly strategy for non-mutually exclusive bets 非互斥投注的凯利准则和分数凯利策略
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-17 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2020-0122
Benjamin P. Jacot, Paul V. Mochkovitch
Abstract This paper examines how the Kelly criterion, a strategy for maximizing the expected log-growth of capital through informed betting, can be applied to non-mutually exclusive bets. These are bets where there is no one-to-one correspondence between the bets and the possible outcomes of the game. This type of situation is common in horse racing, where multiple types of bets are available for a single race. The paper begins by providing a theoretical overview of the Kelly betting strategy and then discusses how it can be extended to non-mutually exclusive bets. A new formulation of the fractional Kelly strategy, which involves betting a fixed fraction of the amount suggested by the Kelly criterion, is also presented for this type of scenario.
摘要本文研究了凯利标准,一种通过知情投注最大化资本预期对数增长的策略,如何应用于非互斥投注。这些赌注与游戏的可能结果之间没有一对一的对应关系。这种情况在赛马中很常见,在一场比赛中有多种类型的赌注。本文首先提供了凯利投注策略的理论概述,然后讨论了如何将其扩展到非互斥投注。对于这种类型的情况,还提出了分数凯利策略的新公式,该策略涉及投注凯利标准所建议金额的固定分数。
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‘Form is temporary, class is permanent’: identifying a longer-term hot hand in golf “状态是暂时的,水平是永久的”:识别高尔夫球的长期热手
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0051
R. Baker, Ian G. McHale
Abstract The existence (or not) of the hot hand in sport continues to attract the attention of economists and psychologists. The paper presents analysis to test the belief prevalent in golfing circles that golfers go in and out of form quickly, while ‘class’ remains relatively constant. By going in and out of form, the golfer is effectively experiencing a longer-run hot hand: one can speculate that periods of confidence breed good performance. To test for the existence of ‘form’, we present a new application of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model and use it to identify both a golfer’s class and form when modelling golf scores. The findings suggest that short-term form does exist in golf and that this hot hand lasts for about four weeks.
体育运动中热手的存在与否一直吸引着经济学家和心理学家的关注。这篇论文提出了一种分析来检验高尔夫圈中普遍存在的一种观点,即高尔夫球手的状态变化很快,而“等级”则相对稳定。通过状态的好坏,高尔夫球手实际上是在经历一段较长时间的热手期:人们可以推测,自信的时期孕育了良好的表现。为了检验“形式”的存在,我们提出了一种新的应用Ornstein-Uhlenbeck模型,并使用它在建模高尔夫分数时识别高尔夫球手的类别和形式。研究结果表明,短期的热手状态确实存在于高尔夫运动中,而且这种热手状态会持续四周左右。
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Modelling Australian Rules Football as spatial systems with pairwise comparisons 模拟澳式足球规则的空间系统与两两比较
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0035
Anton Andreacchio, N. Bean, Lewis Mitchell
Abstract Statistical analysis in competitive sport is an important tool for developing strategy and seeking competitive advantages. However, for complex team sports such as Australian Rules Football, major limitations occur when using possession event data for game analysis. First, focusing on counting possession events does not capture the impact of off-the-ball actions such as ground positioning of other players. Second, it is difficult to determine the extent that an event is due to either team’s relative proficiency or skill. Third, there is limited possession event data available from each match and modelling efforts often have low statistical power. Here we reinterpret event data into positional systems and utilise pairwise performance metrics to understand the relative team proficiency in each of these states. These metrics can then be used to construct transition probabilities between states for future games, and ultimately, absorbing probabilities of goal states. Our approach effectively predicts match outcomes using team ratings for forward, midfield and defensive systems and is sufficiently interpretable to support strategic decision-making by coaching departments in the Australian Football League (AFL).
竞技体育统计分析是制定竞技体育战略、谋求竞技优势的重要工具。然而,对于复杂的团队运动,如澳式足球,在使用控球事件数据进行比赛分析时存在主要限制。首先,专注于计算控球事件并没有捕捉到无球动作的影响,比如其他球员的地面定位。其次,很难确定某项比赛在多大程度上是由于两队的相对熟练程度或技术所致。第三,每场比赛的控球事件数据有限,建模工作通常具有较低的统计能力。在这里,我们将事件数据重新解释为位置系统,并利用成对的绩效指标来了解每个状态下的相对团队熟练程度。这些参数可以用于构建未来游戏状态之间的转换概率,并最终吸收目标状态的概率。我们的方法利用球队对前锋、中场和防守系统的评分有效地预测比赛结果,并充分解释澳大利亚足球联盟(AFL)教练部门的战略决策。
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Bayesian modelling of elite sporting performance with large databases 基于大型数据库的精英运动表现贝叶斯模型
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0112
J. Griffin, Laurentiu C. Hinoveanu, J. Hopker
Abstract The availability of large databases of athletic performances offers the opportunity to understand age-related performance progression and to benchmark individual performance against the World’s best. We build a flexible Bayesian model of individual performance progression whilst allowing for confounders, such as atmospheric conditions, and can be fitted using Markov chain Monte Carlo. We show how the model can be used to understand performance progression and the age of peak performance in both individuals and the population. We apply the model to both women and men in 100 m sprinting and weightlifting. In both disciplines, we find that age-related performance is skewed, that the average population performance trajectories of women and men are quite different, and that age of peak performance is substantially different between women and men. We also find that there is substantial variability in individual performance trajectories and the age of peak performance.
大型运动表现数据库的可用性为了解与年龄相关的表现进展提供了机会,并将个人表现与世界最佳表现进行比较。我们建立了一个灵活的个人性能进展贝叶斯模型,同时允许混杂因素,如大气条件,并可以使用马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗进行拟合。我们展示了如何使用该模型来理解个人和群体的绩效进展和峰值绩效的年龄。我们将该模型应用于女子和男子100米短跑和举重项目。在这两个学科中,我们发现与年龄相关的表现是扭曲的,女性和男性的平均总体表现轨迹大不相同,女性和男性的最佳表现年龄也有很大不同。我们还发现,在个人表现轨迹和最佳表现年龄方面存在很大的差异。
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引用次数: 1
Jumping on the bandwagon? Attendance response to recent victories in the NBA 赶时髦?上座率对最近NBA胜利的反应
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2020-0092
Ercio Munoz, Jiadi Chen, Milan Thomas
This article studies whether a recent victory impacts attendance at sports events. We apply a regression discontinuity design to estimate the local average treatment effect of a win on the attendance of subsequent games in professional basketball. Using National Basketball Association data from seasons 1980–81 to 2017–18, we find that home team fan bases react to recent outcomes, with an increase in attendance of approximately 425 attendants (a 3% boost) following a close win relative to a close loss. The increment is approximately one-eighth of a recent estimate of the superstar effect. We do not find an attendance effect when the visiting team has a recent victory, which provides evidence against the existence of externalities. The positive fan base response to narrow home wins relative to narrow losses suggests that recent luck is rewarded in sporting attendance. We discuss possible mechanisms and document a gradual decline in the attendance response that coincides with the rise of alternative means for viewing games and secondary markets for tickets.
本文研究了最近的胜利是否会影响体育赛事的出勤率。我们采用回归不连续设计来估计一场胜利对随后的职业篮球比赛上座率的局部平均处理效果。使用1980-81赛季到2017-18赛季的nba数据,我们发现主队球迷对最近的比赛结果做出了反应,在一场势均力敌的比赛中,主队球迷的上座率大约增加了425人(增加了3%)。这个增量大约是最近对超级巨星效应估计的八分之一。当客队最近取得胜利时,我们没有发现出勤率效应,这为反对外部性的存在提供了证据。球迷对主场小胜相对小负的积极反应表明,最近的运气在体育上座率上得到了回报。我们讨论了可能的机制,并记录了上座率的逐渐下降,这与观看比赛的其他方式和二级门票市场的兴起相吻合。
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A Bayesian analysis of the time through the order penalty in baseball 棒球比赛中顺序罚球时间的贝叶斯分析
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-10-13 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2022-0116
Ryan S. Brill, Sameer K. Deshpande, A. Wyner
Abstract As a baseball game progresses, batters appear to perform better the more times they face a particular pitcher. The apparent drop-off in pitcher performance from one time through the order to the next, known as the Time Through the Order Penalty (TTOP), is often attributed to within-game batter learning. Although the TTOP has largely been accepted within baseball and influences many managers’ in-game decision making, we argue that existing approaches of estimating the size of the TTOP cannot disentangle continuous evolution in pitcher performance over the course of the game from discontinuities between successive times through the order. Using a Bayesian multinomial regression model, we find that, after adjusting for confounders like batter and pitcher quality, handedness, and home field advantage, there is little evidence of strong discontinuity in pitcher performance between times through the order. Our analysis suggests that the start of the third time through the order should not be viewed as a special cutoff point in deciding whether to pull a starting pitcher.
随着棒球比赛的进行,击球手面对特定投手的次数越多,表现就越好。投手表现从一次到下一次的明显下降,被称为“时间到顺序惩罚”(time through The order Penalty,简称TTOP),通常归因于游戏中的击球手学习。尽管TTOP在很大程度上已被棒球界所接受,并影响了许多经理人在比赛中的决策,但我们认为,现有的估计TTOP大小的方法无法将投手在比赛过程中表现的连续演变与连续时间之间的不连续性区分开来。使用贝叶斯多项式回归模型,我们发现,在调整了诸如击球手和投手素质,手性和主场优势等混杂因素后,投手表现在不同时间之间通过顺序几乎没有很强的不连续性的证据。我们的分析表明,在决定是否拉先发投手时,第三次开始不应被视为一个特殊的截止点。
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Quantifying the impact of imbalanced groups in FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments 1991–2019 量化1991-2019年国际足联女足世界杯比赛中不平衡小组的影响
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0052
Michael A. Lapré, Elizabeth M. Palazzolo
Abstract The FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament consists of a group stage and a knockout stage. We identify several issues that create competitive imbalance in the group stage. We use match data from all Women’s World Cup tournaments from 1991 through 2019 to empirically assess competitive imbalance across groups in each World Cup. Using least squares, we determine ratings for all teams. For each team, we average the ratings of the opponents in the group to calculate group opponents rating. We find that the range in group opponents rating varies between 2.5 and 4.5 goals indicating substantial competitive imbalance. We use logistic regression to quantify the impact of imbalance on the probability of success in the Women’s World Cup. Specifically, our estimates show that one goal less in group opponents rating can increase the probability of reaching the quarterfinal by 33%. We discuss several policy recommendations to reduce competitive imbalance at the Women’s World Cup.
国际足联女足世界杯分为小组赛和淘汰赛两阶段。我们确定了在小组赛阶段造成竞争不平衡的几个问题。我们使用1991年至2019年所有女足世界杯的比赛数据,对每届世界杯各组之间的竞争不平衡进行实证评估。使用最小二乘法,我们确定所有球队的评分。对于每支球队,我们将该组对手的评分取平均值,计算出该组对手的评分。我们发现小组对手评分的范围在2.5到4.5球之间变化,这表明存在严重的竞争不平衡。我们使用逻辑回归来量化不平衡对女足世界杯成功概率的影响。具体来说,我们的估计表明,在小组赛对手排名中少进一个球,进入四分之一决赛的概率就会增加33%。我们讨论了一些减少女足世界杯竞争不平衡的政策建议。
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A goal based index to analyze the competitive balance of a football league 一个基于进球的指标来分析足球联赛的竞争平衡
IF 0.8 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2021-0015
S. Deb
Abstract Competitive balance in a football league is extremely important from the perspective of economic growth of the industry. Many researchers have earlier proposed different measures of competitive balance, which are primarily adapted from standard economic theory. However, these measures fail to capture the finer nuances of the game. In this work, we discuss a new framework which is more suitable for a football league. First, we present a mathematical proof of a theoretically optimal situation where a football league becomes perfectly balanced. Next, a goal based index for competitive balance is developed. We present relevant theoretical results and show how the proposed index can be used to formally test for the presence of imbalance. The methods are implemented on the data from the top five European leagues, and it shows that the new approach can be helpful in explaining the changes in the seasonal competitive balance of the leagues. Further, using panel data models, we show that the proposed index is more suitable to analyze the variability in total revenues of the football leagues. We also discuss how the methods can be easily extended to develop other goal-based indices under different modeling assumptions.
从产业经济增长的角度来看,足球联赛的竞争平衡是极其重要的。许多研究人员早先提出了不同的衡量竞争平衡的方法,这些方法主要改编自标准的经济理论。然而,这些措施并不能捕捉到游戏的细微差别。在这项工作中,我们讨论了一个更适合足球联赛的新框架。首先,我们提出了一个数学证明,在理论上最优的情况下,足球联赛变得完全平衡。其次,建立了基于目标的竞争平衡指标。我们提出了相关的理论结果,并展示了如何使用所提出的指数来正式测试不平衡的存在。将该方法应用于欧洲五大联赛的数据,结果表明,新方法有助于解释联赛季节竞争平衡的变化。此外,使用面板数据模型,我们表明所提出的指数更适合于分析足球联赛总收入的可变性。我们还讨论了如何在不同的建模假设下轻松地扩展方法以开发其他基于目标的指标。
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