Forecasting number of corner kicks taken in association football using compound Poisson distribution.

Autor: Yip, Stan, Zou, Yinghong, Hung, Ronald Tsz Hin, Yiu, Ka Fai Cedric
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Zdroj: Journal of the Operational Research Society; Nov2024, Vol. 75 Issue 11, p2127-2137, 11p
Abstrakt: This article presents a holistic compound Poisson regression model framework to forecast number of corner kicks taken in association football. Corner kick taken events are often decisive in the match outcome and inherently arrive in batch with serial clustering pattern. Providing parameter estimates with intuitive interpretation, a class of compound Poisson regression including a Bayesian implementation of geometric-Poisson distribution are introduced. With a varying shape parameter, the corner counts serial correlation between matches is handled naturally within the Bayesian model. In this study, information elicited from cross-market betting odds was used to improve the model predictability. Margin application methods to adjust market inefficiency in raw odds are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index