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| '''Statistical Football prediction''' is a method used in [[sports betting]], to predict the outcome of [[Association football|football (soccer)]] matches by means of statistical tools. The goal of statistical match prediction is to outperform the predictions of [[bookmakers]], who use them to set odds on the outcome of football matches.
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| The most widely used statistical approach to prediction is [[ranking]]. Football ranking systems assign a rank to each team based on their past game results, so that the highest rank is assigned to the strongest team. The outcome of the match can be predicted by comparing the opponents’ ranks. Today, eight different football ranking systems exist: [[FIFA World Rankings]], [[World Football Elo Ratings]], AQB Sports Ratings, [[The Roon Ba]], [[InternationalMark]], [[Rsoccer]], [[Mondfoot]] and [[Chance de Gol]].
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| There are three main drawbacks to football match predictions that are based on ranking systems:
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| # Ranks assigned to the teams do not differentiate between their attacking and defensive strengths.
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| # Ranks are accumulated averages which do not account for skill changes in football teams.
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| # The main goal of a ranking system is not to predict the results of football games, but to sort the teams according to their average strength.
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| Another approach to football prediction is known as '''rating systems'''. While ranking refers only to team order, rating systems assign to each team a continuously scaled strength indicator. Moreover, rating can be assigned not only to a team but to its attacking and defensive strengths, home field advantage or even to the skills of each team player (according to Stern <ref name="Stern article" />).
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| == History ==
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| Publications about statistical models for football predictions started appearing from the 90s, but the first model was proposed much earlier by Moroney,<ref name="Moroney article" /> who published his first statistical analysis of soccer match results in 1956. According to his analysis, both [[Poisson distribution]] and [[negative binomial distribution]] provided an adequate fit to results of football games. The series of ball passing between players during football matches was successfully analyzed using negative binomial distribution by Reep and Benjamin <ref name="Reep article" /> in 1968. They improved this method in 1971, and in 1974 Hill <ref name="Hill article" /> indicated that soccer game results are to some degree predictable and not simply a matter of chance.
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| The first model predicting outcomes of football matches between teams with different skills was proposed by Michael Maher <ref name="Maher article" /> in 1982. According to his model, the goals, which the opponents score during the game, are drawn from the [[Poisson distribution]]. The model parameters are defined by the difference between attacking and defensive skills, adjusted by the home field advantage factor. The methods for modeling the home field advantage factor were summarized in an article by Caurneya and Carron <ref name="Caurneya article" /> in 1992. Time-dependency of team strengths was analyzed by Knorr-Held <ref name="Knorr article" /> in 1999. He used [[recursive Bayesian estimation]] to rate football teams: this method was more realistic in comparison to soccer prediction based on common average statistics.
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| == Football Prediction Methods ==
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| All the prediction methods can be categorized according to tournament type, time-dependence and regression algorithm. Football prediction methods vary between [[Round-robin tournament]] and [[Knockout competition]]. The methods for [[Knockout competition]] are summarized in an article by Diego Kuonen.<ref name="Kuonen article" />
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| The table below summarizes the methods related to [[Round-robin tournament]].
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| :{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align: center; width: auto"
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| ! #
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| ! Code
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| ! Regression Algorithm
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| ! Time Dependence
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| | TILS
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| | Time Independent Least Squares Rating
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| | Linear Least Squares Regression
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| | No
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| | Time Independent Poisson Regression
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| | Maximum Likelihood
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| | No
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| | Time Independent [[Skellam distribution|Skellam]] Regression
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| | Maximum Likelihood
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| | No
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| | Time-Dependent Poisson Regression
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| | Maximum Likelihood
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| | Time dumping factor
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| | High
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| | TDMC
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| | Time-Dependent Markov Chain
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| | Monte-Carlo
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| | [[Markov Chain]] model
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| | High
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| == Time Independent Least Squares Rating ==
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| This method intends to assign to each team in the tournament a continuously scaled rating value, so that the strongest team will have the highest rating. The method is based on the assumption that the rating assigned to the rival teams is proportional to the outcome of each match.
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| Assume that the teams A, B, C and D are playing in a tournament and the match outcomes are as follows:
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| | 3 - 1
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| | <math>y_{1}=3-1</math>
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| | C
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| | 2 - 1
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| | D
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| | <math>y_{2}=2-1</math>
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| | D
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| | <math>y_{3}=1-4</math>
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| | <math>y_{4}=3-1</math>
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| | 5
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| | B
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| | 2 - 0
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| | <math>y_{5}=2-0</math>
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| Though the ratings <math>r_{A}</math>, <math>r_{B}</math>, <math>r_{C}</math> and <math>r_{D}</math> of teams A, B, C and D respectively are unknown, it may be assumed that the outcome of match #1 is proportional to the difference between the ranks of teams A and B: <math>y_{1}=r_{A}-r_{B}+\varepsilon _1</math>. In this way, <math>y_{1}</math> corresponds to the score difference and <math>\varepsilon _1</math> is the noise observation. The same assumption can be made for all the matches in the tournament:
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| :<math>\begin{matrix}
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| y_{1}=r_{A}-r_{B}+\varepsilon _{1} \\
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| y_{2}=r_{C}-r_{D}+\varepsilon _{2} \\
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| ... \\
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| y_{5}=r_{B}-r_{C}+\varepsilon _{5} \\
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| \end{matrix}</math>
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| By introducing a selection matrix X, the equations above can be rewritten in a compact form:
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| :<math>\mathbf{y}=\mathbf{Xr}+\mathbf{e}</math>
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| Entries of the selection matrix can be either 1, 0 or -1, with 1 corresponding to home teams and -1 to away teams:
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| :<math>\begin{matrix}
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| \mathbf{y}=\left[ \begin{matrix}
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| 2 \\
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| -3 \\
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| 2 \\
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| 2 \\
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| \end{matrix} \right], & \mathbf{X}=\left[ \begin{matrix}
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| 1 & -1 & 0 & 0 \\
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| 0 & 0 & 1 & -1 \\
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| 0 & -1 & 0 & 1 \\
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| 1 & 0 & 0 & -1 \\
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| 0 & 1 & -1 & 0 \\
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| \end{matrix} \right], & \mathbf{r}=\left[ \begin{matrix}
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| r_{C} \\
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| r_{D} \\
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| \end{matrix} \right], & \mathbf{e}=\left[ \begin{matrix}
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| \varepsilon _{1} \\
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| \varepsilon _{2} \\
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| \varepsilon _{3} \\
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| \varepsilon _{4} \\
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| \varepsilon _{5} \\
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| \end{matrix} \right] \\
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| \end{matrix}</math>
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| If the matrix <math>\mathbf{X}^{T}\mathbf{X}</math> has full rank, the algebraic solution of the system may be found via the [[Least squares]] method:
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| :<math>\mathbf{r}=\left( \mathbf{X}^{T}\mathbf{X} \right)^{-1}\mathbf{X}^{T}\mathbf{y}</math>
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| If not, one can use the [[Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse]] to get:
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| :<math>\mathbf{r}=\mathbf{X}^+ \mathbf{y}</math>
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| The final rating parameters are <math>\mathbf{r}=[1.625,\ 0.75,\ -0.875,\ -1.5]^{T}.</math> In this case, the strongest team has the highest rating. The advantage of this rating method compared to the standard ranking systems is that the numbers are continuously scaled, defining the precise difference between the teams’ strengths.
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| == Time-Independent Poisson Regression ==
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| According to this model (Maher <ref name="Maher article" />), if <math>X_{i,j}</math> and <math>Y_{i,j}</math> are the goals scored in the match where team i plays against team j, then:
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| :<math>\begin{align}
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| X_{i,j} &\sim \text{Poisson}(\lambda ) \\
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| Y_{i,j} &\sim \text{Poisson}(\mu ) \\ | |
| \end{align}</math>
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| <math>X_{i,j}</math> and <math>Y_{i,j}</math> are independent random variables with means <math>\lambda </math> and <math>\mu </math>. Thus, the joint probability of the home team scoring x goals and the away team scoring y goals is a product of the two independent probabilities:
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| :<math>P\left( X_{i,j}=x,Y_{i,j}=y \right)=\frac{\lambda ^{x}\exp (-\lambda )}{x!}\frac{\mu ^{y}\exp (-\mu )}{y!}</math>
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| while the generalized log-linear model for <math>\lambda </math> and <math>\mu </math> according to Kuonen <ref name="Kuonen article" /> and Lee <ref name="Lee article" /> is defined as: <math>\log \left( \lambda \right)=c^{\lambda }+a_{i}-d_{j}+h</math> and <math>\log \left( \mu \right)=c^{\mu }+a_{j}-d_{i}</math>, where <math>a_{i},d_{i},h > 0</math> refers to attacking and defensive strengths and to home field advantage respectively. <math>c^{\lambda }</math> and <math>c^{\mu }</math> are correction factors which represent the means of goals scored during the season by home and away teams.
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| Assuming that C signifies the number of teams participating in a season and N stands for the number of matches played until now, the team strengths can be estimated by minimizing the negative log-likelihood function with respect to <math>\lambda </math> and <math>\mu </math>:
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| :<math>\begin{align}
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| & L(a_{i},d_{i},h;\ i=1,..C)=-\log \prod\limits_{n=1}^{N}{\frac{\lambda _{n}^{x_{n}}\exp (-\lambda _{n})}{x_{n}!}\frac{\mu _{n}^{y_{n}}\exp (-\mu _{n})}{y_{n}!}}=-\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{\log \left( \frac{\lambda _{n}^{x_{n}}\exp (-\lambda _{n})}{x_{n}!}\frac{\mu _{n}^{y_{n}}\exp (-\mu _{n})}{y_{n}!} \right)} \\
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| & =\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{\lambda _{n}}+\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{\mu _{n}}-\left( \sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{x_{n}\log \left( \lambda _{n} \right)} \right)-\left( \sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{y_{n}\log \left( \mu _{n} \right)} \right)+\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{\log \left( x_{n}! \right)}+\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}{\log \left( y_{n}! \right)} \\ | |
| \end{align}</math>
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| Given that <math>x_{n}</math> and <math>y_{n}</math> are known, the team attacking and defensive strengths <math>\left( a_{i},d_{i} \right)</math> and home ground advantage <math>\left( h \right)</math> that minimize the negative log-likelihood can be estimated by [[Expectation Maximization]]:
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| :<math>\underset{a_{i},d_{i},h}{\mathop{\min }}\,L(a_{i},d_{i},h,i=1,..C)</math>
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| Improvements for this model were suggested by [[Mark Dixon (statistician)]] and Stuart Coles.<ref name="Dixon article" /> They invented a correlation factor for low scores 0-0, 1-0, 0-1 and 1-1, where the independent Poisson model doesn't hold. Dimitris Karlis and Ioannis Ntzoufras <ref name="Karlis article" /> built a Time-Independent Skellam distribution model. Unlike the Poisson model that fits the distribution of scores, the Skellam model fits the difference between home and away scores.
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| == Time-Dependent Markov Chain Monte Carlo ==
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| On the one hand, statistical models require a large number of observations to make an accurate estimation of its parameters. And when there are not enough observations available during a season (as is usually the situation), working with average statistics makes sense. On the other hand, it is well known that team skills change during the season, making model parameters time-dependent. [[Mark Dixon (statistician)]] and Coles <ref name="Dixon article" /> tried to solve this trade-off by assigning a larger weight to the latest match results. Rue and Salvesen <ref name="Rue article" /> introduced a novel time-dependent rating method using the Markov Chain model.
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| They suggested modifying the generalized linear model above for <math>\lambda </math> and <math>\mu </math>:
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| :<math>\begin{align}
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| & \log \left( \lambda \right)=c^{\lambda }+a_{i}-d_{j}-\gamma \cdot \Delta _{i,j} \\
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| & \log \left( \mu \right)=c^{\mu }+a_{j}-d_{i}+\gamma \cdot \Delta _{i,j} \\ | |
| \end{align}</math>
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| given that <math>\Delta _{i,j}=\frac{\left( a_{i}-d_{j} \right)+\left( d_{i}-a_{j} \right)}{2}</math> corresponds to the strength difference between teams i and j. The parameter <math>\gamma >0</math> then represents the psychological effects caused by underestimation of the opposing teams’ strength.
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| According to the model, the attacking strength <math>\left( a \right)</math> of team A can be described by the standard equations of Brownian motion, <math>B_{a,A}\left( t \right)</math>, for time <math>t_{1}>t_{0}</math>:
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| :<math>a_{A}^{t_{1}}=a_{A}^{t_{0}}+\left( B_{a,A}\left( t_{1}/\tau \right)-B_{a,A}\left( t_{0}/\tau \right) \right)\cdot \frac{\sigma _{a,A}}{\sqrt{1-\gamma \left( 1-{\gamma }/{2}\; \right)}}</math>
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| where <math>\tau </math> and <math>\sigma _{a,A}^{2}</math> refer to the loss of memory rate and to the prior attack variance respectively.
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| This model is based on the assumption that:
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| :<math>{a_{A}^{t_{1}}} | {a_{A}^{t_{0}}}\; \sim N\left( a_{A}^{t_{0}},\ \frac{t_{1}-t_{0}}{\tau }\sigma _{a,A}^{2} \right)</math>
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| Assuming that three teams A, B and C are playing in the tournament and the matches are played in the following order: <math>t_{0}</math>: A-B; <math>t_{0}</math>: A-C; <math>t_{1}</math>: B-C, the joint probability density can be expressed as:
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| :<math>\begin{align}
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| & P(a_{i},d_{i},\gamma ,\,\tau ;\ A,B,C)=P\left( \lambda _{A},t_{0} \right)\cdot P\left( \lambda _{B},t_{0} \right)\cdot P\left( \lambda _{C},t_{0} \right) \\
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| & \times P\left( X_{A,B}=x,Y_{A,B}=y|\lambda _{A},\mu _{B},t_{0} \right)\cdot P\left( X_{A,C}=x,Y_{A,C}=y|\lambda _{A},\mu _{C},t_{0} \right) \\
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| & \times P\left( \lambda _{A},t_{1}|\lambda _{A},t_{0} \right)\cdot P\left( \mu _{C},t_{1}|\mu _{C},t_{0} \right) \\
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| \end{align}</math>
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| Since analytical estimation of the parameters is difficult in this case, the [[Monte Carlo method]] is applied to estimate the parameters of the model.
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| == References ==
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| {{reflist|refs=
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| <ref name="Moroney article">Moroney M. J. (1956) ''Facts from figures''. 3rd edition, Penguin, London.</ref>
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| <ref name="Reep article">Reep C. Benjamin B. (1968) ''Skill and chance in association football''. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 131, 581-585.</ref>
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| <ref name="Hill article">Hill I.D. (1974), ''Association football and statistical inference''. Applied statistics, 23, 203-208.</ref> | |
| <ref name="Maher article">Maher M.J. (1982), ''Modelling Association Football scores''. Statistica Neerlandica, 36, 109-118</ref>
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| <ref name="Caurneya article">Caurneya K.S. and Carron A.V. (1992) ''The home advantage in sports competitions: a literature review''. Journal of Sport and Exercise Physiology, 14, 13-27.</ref>
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| <ref name="Knorr article">Knorr-Held, Leonhard (1997) ''Dynamic Rating of Sports Teams''. (REVISED 1999). Collaborative Research Center 386, Discussion Paper 98</ref>
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| <ref name="Kuonen article">Diego Kuonen (1996) ''Statistical Models for Knock-out Soccer Tournaments''</ref>
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| <ref name="Stern article">Stern Hal. (1995) ''Who's Number 1 in College Football?...And How Might We Decide?'' Chance, Summer, 7-14.</ref>
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| <ref name="Dixon article">Mark J. Dixon and Coles S.G. (1997) ''Modeling Association Football Scores and Inefficiencies in the Football Betting Market'', Applied Statistics, Volume 46, Issue 2, 265-280</ref>
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| <ref name="Lee article">Lee A. J. (1997) ''Modeling scores in Premier League: is Manchester United really the best''. Chance, 10, 15-19</ref> | |
| <ref name="Karlis article">Dimitris Karlis and Ioannis Ntzoufras (2007) ''Bayesian modelling of football outcomes: Using the Skellam’s distribution for the goal difference''</ref>
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| <ref name="Rue article">Rue H. and Salvesen Ø. (1999) ''Predicting and retrospective analysis of soccer matches in a league''. Technical Report. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.</ref>
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| }}
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Statistical Association Football Predictions}}
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| [[Category:Association football records and statistics]]
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