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Statistics of football dynamics

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  • R. S. Mendes
  • L. C. Malacarne
  • C. Anteneodo

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We investigate the dynamics of football matches. Our goal is to characterize statistically the temporal sequence of ball movements in this collective sport game, searching for traits of complex behavior. Data were collected over a variety of matches in South American, European and World championships throughout 2005 and 2006. We show that the statistics of ball touches presents power-law tails and can be described by q-gamma distributions. To explain such behavior we propose a model that provides information on the characteristics of football dynamics. Furthermore, we discuss the statistics of duration of out-of-play intervals, not directly related to the previous scenario. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

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  • R. S. Mendes & L. C. Malacarne & C. Anteneodo, 2007. "Statistics of football dynamics," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 57(3), pages 357-363, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurphb:v:57:y:2007:i:3:p:357-363
    DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2007-00177-4
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    1. dos Santos, M.A.F. & Colombo, E.H. & Anteneodo, C., 2021. "Random diffusivity scenarios behind anomalous non-Gaussian diffusion," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    2. Narizuka, Takuma & Yamamoto, Ken & Yamazaki, Yoshihiro, 2014. "Statistical properties of position-dependent ball-passing networks in football games," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 412(C), pages 157-168.
    3. Carlota Torrents & Angel Ric & Robert Hristovski & Lorena Torres-Ronda & Emili Vicente & Jaime Sampaio, 2016. "Emergence of Exploratory, Technical and Tactical Behavior in Small-Sided Soccer Games when Manipulating the Number of Teammates and Opponents," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(12), pages 1-15, December.
    4. Leon Chen, L. & Beck, Christian, 2008. "A superstatistical model of metastasis and cancer survival," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 387(13), pages 3162-3172.

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