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The importance of players in teams of the German Bundesliga in the season 2012/2013 - a cooperative game theory approach

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In this article, we employ team games (Hern�ndez-Lamoneda and S�nchez-S�nchez, 2010) and the Shapley (1953) value to analyse the performance/importance of players in teams of the Bundesliga (German football league) in the season 2012/2013.

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  • Tobias Hiller, 2015. "The importance of players in teams of the German Bundesliga in the season 2012/2013 - a cooperative game theory approach," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(4), pages 324-329, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:22:y:2015:i:4:p:324-329
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.941527
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