Abstract
Soccer as a low scoring sport is highly affected by random effects influencing the result of a game. We define and evaluate deserved points as a new measure to exclude random scoring effects from the assessment of team performances based on Poisson distributions of expected goals.
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Birk, J., Meth, H., Syrianos, G. (2022). Excluding Random Scoring Effects from Soccer Results Using Deserved Points. In: Baca, A., Exel, J., Lames, M., James, N., Parmar, N. (eds) Proceedings of the 9th International Performance Analysis Workshop and Conference & 5th IACSS Conference. PACSS 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1426. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99333-7_7
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