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Optimizing strategic behaviour in a dynamic setting in professional team sports

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  • Dobson, Stephen
  • Goddard, John

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This article develops a dynamic game-theoretic model of optimizing strategic behaviour by football (soccer) teams. Teams choose between defensive and attacking formations and between a non-violent and a violent playing style, and can vary these choices continuously throughout each match. Starting from the end of the match and working backwards, the teams' optimal strategies conditional on the current state of the match are determined by solving a series of two-player non-cooperative subgames. Numerical simulations are used to explore the sensitivity of strategic behaviour to variations in the structural parameters. The analysis demonstrates that the strategic behaviour of football teams can be rationalized in accordance with game-theoretic principles of optimizing strategic behaviour by agents when payoffs are uncertain and interdependent.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal European Journal of Operational Research.

Volume (Year): 205 (2010)
Issue (Month): 3 (September)
Pages: 661-669

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Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:205:y:2010:i:3:p:661-669

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Keywords: Economics Game theory Sport (Football);

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  1. Eike Emrich & Markus Klein & Werner Pitsch & Christian Pierdzioch, 2012. "On the determinants of sporting success – A note on the Olympic Games," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(3), pages 1890-1901.

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