Statistics of football dynamics

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2007-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/0706.1758v1

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

7 pages

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2007-00177-4

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.

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