1. Editorial: Big data and data science in sport

   • Pierpaolo D’Urso
   • Livia De Giovanni
   • Tim Swartz

   Editorial 25 April 2023 Pages: 1 - 7

2. A robust method for clustering football players with mixed attributes

   • Pierpaolo D’Urso
   • Livia De Giovanni
   • Vincenzina Vitale

   Original Research Open access 14 February 2022 Pages: 9 - 36

   

3. Clustering of variables methods and measurement models for soccer players’ performances

   • Maurizio Carpita
   • Paola Pasca
   • Enrico Ciavolino

   Original Research Open access 06 February 2023 Pages: 37 - 56

   

4. Community detection in attributed networks for global transfer market

   • G. P. Clemente
   • A. Cornaro

   Original Research 14 January 2022 Pages: 57 - 83

   

5. A rank-size approach to analyse soccer competitions and teams: the case of the Italian football league “Serie A"

   • Valerio Ficcadenti
   • Roy Cerqueti
   • Ciro Hosseini Varde’i

   Original Research Open access 15 March 2022 Pages: 85 - 113

   

6. Forecasting binary outcomes in soccer

   • Raffaele Mattera

   Original Research Open access 11 August 2021 Pages: 115 - 134

7. Betting market efficiency and prediction in binary choice models

   • Ruud H. Koning
   • Renske Zijm

   Original Research Open access 29 April 2022 Pages: 135 - 148

   

8. Influence of Red and Yellow cards on team performance in elite soccer

   • Llorenç Badiella
   • Pedro Puig
   • Martí Casals

   Original Research Open access 16 May 2022 Pages: 149 - 165

   

9. Football tracking data: a copula-based hidden Markov model for classification of tactics in football

   • Marius Ötting
   • Dimitris Karlis

   Original Research 24 April 2022 Pages: 167 - 183

   

10. Service quality in football tourism: an evaluation model based on online reviews and data envelopment analysis with linguistic distribution assessments

    • Adjei Peter Darko
    • Decui Liang
    • Agbodah Kobina

    Original Research 22 September 2022 Pages: 185 - 218

    

11. An extension of correspondence analysis based on the multiple Taguchi’s index to evaluate the relationships between three categorical variables graphically: an application to the Italian football championship

    • Antonello D’Ambra
    • Pietro Amenta

    Original Research 16 June 2022 Pages: 219 - 244

    

12. Does luck play a role in the determination of the rank positions in football leagues? A study of Europe’s ‘big five’

    • Sumit Sarkar
    • Sooraj Kamath

    Original Research 10 November 2021 Pages: 245 - 260

    

13. Understanding the effect of contextual factors and decision making on team performance in Twenty20 cricket: an interpretable machine learning approach

    • Praveen Puram
    • Soumya Roy
    • Anand Gurumurthy

    Original Research 04 November 2022 Pages: 261 - 288

    

14. Optimization of team selection in fantasy cricket: a hybrid approach using recursive feature elimination and genetic algorithm

    • Apurva Jha
    • Arpan Kumar Kar
    • Agam Gupta

    Original - OR Modeling/Case Study 12 May 2022 Pages: 289 - 317

    

15. Best strategy to win a match: an analytical approach using hybrid machine learning-clustering-association rule framework

    • Praveen Ranjan Srivastava
    • Prajwal Eachempati
    • Lalitha Dhamotharan

    Original Research 07 March 2022 Pages: 319 - 361

    

16. Complex networks for community detection of basketball players

    • Alessandro Chessa
    • Pierpaolo D’Urso
    • Alfonso Gebbia

    Original Research Open access 03 October 2022 Pages: 363 - 389

    

17. Home advantage and mispricing in indoor sports’ ghost games: the case of European basketball

    • Luca De Angelis
    • J. James Reade

    Original Research Open access 28 September 2022 Pages: 391 - 418

    

18. A Bayesian network to analyse basketball players’ performances: a multivariate copula-based approach

    • Pierpalo D’Urso
    • Livia De Giovanni
    • Vincenzina Vitale

    Original Research Open access 09 August 2022 Pages: 419 - 440

    

19. Measuring players’ importance in basketball using the generalized Shapley value

    • Rodolfo Metulini
    • Giorgio Gnecco

    Original Research Open access 13 April 2022 Pages: 441 - 465

    

20. Will more skills become a burden? The effect of positional ambiguity on player and team performance

    • Jiangang Wang
    • Fanghong Liu

    Original Research 12 March 2022 Pages: 467 - 493

    

21. Spatial performance analysis in basketball with CART, random forest and extremely randomized trees

    • Paola Zuccolotto
    • Marco Sandri
    • Marica Manisera

    Original Research Open access 03 June 2022 Pages: 495 - 519

    

22. Filtering active moments in basketball games using data from players tracking systems

    • Tullio Facchinetti
    • Rodolfo Metulini
    • Paola Zuccolotto

    Original Research 16 November 2021 Pages: 521 - 538

    

23. Result-based talent identification in road cycling: discovering the next Eddy Merckx

    • David Van Bulck
    • Arthur Vande Weghe
    • Dries Goossens

    Original Research 05 October 2021 Pages: 539 - 556

    

24. Predicting the next Pogačar: a data analytical approach to detect young professional cycling talents

    • Bram Janssens
    • Matthias Bogaert
    • Mathijs Maton

    Original Research 19 January 2022 Pages: 557 - 588

    

25. A hydraulic model outperforms work-balance models for predicting recovery kinetics from intermittent exercise

    • Fabian C. Weigend
    • David C. Clarke
    • Jason Siegler

    Original Research Open access 13 September 2022 Pages: 589 - 613

    

26. A new model for predicting the winner in tennis based on the eigenvector centrality

    • Alberto Arcagni
    • Vincenzo Candila
    • Rosanna Grassi

    Original Research Open access 07 March 2022 Pages: 615 - 632

    

27. The analysis of serve decisions in tennis using Bayesian hierarchical models

    • Peter Tea
    • Tim B. Swartz

    Original Research 14 January 2022 Pages: 633 - 648

    

28. Analysing a built-in advantage in asymmetric darts contests using causal machine learning

    • Daniel Goller

    Original Research Open access 16 February 2022 Pages: 649 - 679

    

29. Estimation of player aging curves using regression and imputation

    • Michael Schuckers
    • Michael Lopez
    • Brian Macdonald

    Original Research 13 January 2023 Pages: 681 - 699

    

30. Dyadic analysis for multi-block data in sport surveys analytics

    • Maria Iannario
    • Rosaria Romano
    • Domenico Vistocco

    Original Research Open access 07 July 2022 Pages: 701 - 714

    

31. Sports analytics in the NFL: classifying the winner of the superbowl

    • Yazan F. Roumani

    Original Research 22 November 2022 Pages: 715 - 730

    

32. Simulation-based decision making in the NFL using NFLSimulatoR

    • Benjamin Williams
    • Will Palmquist
    • Ryan Elmore

    Original Research 18 January 2022 Pages: 731 - 742

    

33. Who’s watching? Classifying sports viewers on social live streaming services

    • Haoyu Liu
    • Kim Hua Tan
    • Xianfeng Wu

    Original Research 03 December 2022 Pages: 743 - 765