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Stastistic in scoccer -- prediction of the Athens 2004 [sic]

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In this project we investigate the performance of a variation of the so-called Bradley-Terry (BT) model for paired comparisons in the context of the 2004 Athens Soccer Olympics and the English League. We explore the usefulness of the BT model both as a tool to rank sport teams and as a prediction tool. We find that for the English League, the BT performs adequately in terms of ranking, but it performs poorly for the Olympic since data is too sparse.

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  • 04A028I
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  • 2004
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  • 2004-01-01
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